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An Alternative Option Pricing Model
similar to the Black-Scholes equation [1] is derived. Like the Black-Scholes equation, the model is based ... based upon an assumption of a lognormal distribution of the price of a risky, non-dividend-paying security ...- Authors: Joseph D Marsden
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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A Primer on Credit Derivatives
explains the development of the credit derivative market, describes the most common types of credit derivatives ... instruments and explains the role they played in the financial market turmoil of 2008. Basel;Credit default ...- Authors: Stephen P D'Arcy, James P McNichols, Xinyan Zhao
- Date: Apr 2009
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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Valuation of a Catastrophe Insurance Futures Contract Using Compound Poisson Claim Assumptions
Valuation of a Catastrophe Insurance Futures Contract Using Compound Poisson Claim Assumptions In 1993 ... 1993, the Chicago Board of Trade introduced a futures contract on a financial index that reflects the insurance ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Kevin Andrew Buhr
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
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A Global Derivatives Framework for Banks to Centrally Manage and Hedge Market Risks in the Financial System
Centrally Manage and Hedge Market Risks in the Financial System The bank’s customers viz. non-bank company ... company often get into various kinds of derivative transactions with a bank or some other non-bank company ...- Authors: ABHISHEK SINGH CHAUHAN
- Date: Jan 2011
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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A Note on Hedging and the Put Option
A Note on Hedging and the Put Option This note develops the optimality of the put option as a hedging ... against the downside risk of the stock price. In this short note, we ask two questions with the hedge strategy ...- Authors: Xiaochuan Wang
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
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Multiple Currency Option Selection Using Stochastic Constraints
Stochastic Constraints This paper examines the problem of hedging foreign exchange risk across multiple ... options. The profit target requirement is formulated as a stochastic constraint in the context of a binomial ...- Authors: David C Thurston, Kelly T Au, Joel R Barber
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
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Stochastic Optimization Techniques for Pricing Callable Bonds: Continuous Time Approach
time models.. The methodology uses stochastic optimization tcchniques where an issuer of a bond is ItTing ... minimize the price of a callable bond in a game against the bondholder. Some flexibility to the model ...- Authors: Mark Saksonov
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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Option Pricing by Esscher Transforms
that the Esscher transform is also an efficient technique for valuing derivative securities if the logarithms ... logarithms of the prices of the primitive securities are governed by certain stochastic processes with stationary ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Actuarial Approach to Option Pricing
Approach to Option Pricing In this paper we study the pricing of financial options and contingent claims. We ... time-honored concepts in actuarial science - the Esscher transform and the adjustment coefficient - are efficient ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
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Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model
demonstrates the accuracy by an example involving a put option on a non-dividend-paying stock for which the exact ... exact premium could be determined. It shows how the use of simulation models can be useful in valuing a ...- Authors: James A Tilley
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models