期货套期保值模型选择:基于模型(误设)风险与估计风险视角

在市场环境发生变化时,针对复杂模型对套期保值的影响,从两个维度对样本检验来判断样本期是否存在市场环境突变,选取动态VAR-DCC-GARCH模型为主研模型,静态OLS、VAR、EC-VAR模型为基础模型,比较两类模型环境突变前后的套期保值表现.实证结果显示：样本内,静态模型和动态模型的套期保值表现并没有明显的差异.样本外,所有模型的套期保值效率均会下降.模型越复杂,效率下降幅度越大,其中动态模型的套期保值效率下降最大,样本外表现最差.表明复杂模型包含更多噪音,市场环境发生变化时,其表现会劣于简单模型.     

对数正态随机波动率期权局部风险最小定价与风险对冲

随机波动率模型是著名的Black-Scholes模型的推广,该模型描述的市场是不完备的,相应期权的定价与保值和投资者的风险态度有关．本文假设标的资产波动率为对数正态过程,根据局部风险最小准则,运用梯度算子方法,得到了欧式看涨期权的局部风险最小定价及套期保值策略的显式解．     

On Carr and Lee’s Correlation Immunization Strategy

In their seminal work Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives, Carr and Lee show how to robustly price and replicate a variety of claims written on the quadratic variation of a risky asset under the assumption that the asset’s volatility process is independent of the Brownian motion that drives the asset’s price. Additionally, they propose a correlation immunization strategy that minimizes the pricing and hedging error that results when the correlation between the risky asset’s price and volatility is non-zero. In this paper, we show that the correlation immunization strategy is the only strategy among the class of strategies discussed in Carr and Lee's paper that results in real-valued hedging portfolios when the correlation between the asset’s price and volatility is non-zero. Additionally, we perform a number of Monte Carlo experiments to test the effectiveness of Carr and Lee’s immunization strategy. Our results indicate that the correlation immunization method is an effective means of reducing pricing and hedging errors that result from a non-zero correlation.     

基于Copula-TGARCH模型的股指期货最佳套期保值比研究

本文基于一种新的Copula-TGARCH模型估计股指期货的最佳套期保值比,根据现货和期货收益率序列不同的尾部相依性,用不同的Copula函数形式(Gumbel,Clayton,Gaussian)拟合两者的相关性,并与其它的动态套期保值模型(ECM-CCC-GARCH和ECM-DVEC-GARCH)比较其套期保值的有效性。通过对香港恒生指数现货和期货的实证分析发现:无论样本期内、外,Copula-TGARCH模型的套期保值效果均优于其它模型,而基于非对称Gumbel Copula的套期保值比最佳。     

Some results on quadratic hedging with insider trading

We consider the hedging problem in an arbitrage-free incomplete financial market, where there are two kinds of investors with different levels of information about the future price evolution, described by two filtrations F and G=F∨σ(G) where G is a given r.v. representing the additional information. We focus on two types of quadratic approaches to hedge a given square-integrable contingent claim: local risk minimization (LRM) and mean-variance hedging (MVH). By using initial enlargement of filtrations techniques, we solve the hedging problem for both investors and compare their optimal strategies under both approaches.

In particular, for LRM, we show that for a large class of additional non trivial r.v.s G both investors will pursue the same locally risk minimizing portfolio strategy and the cost process of the ordinary agent is just the projection on F of that of the insider. For the MVH approach, we study also some general stochastic volatility model, including Hull and White, Heston and Stein and Stein models. In this more specific setting and for r.v.s G which are measurable with respect to the filtration generated by the volatility process, we obtain an expression for the insider optimal strategy in terms of the ordinary agent optimal strategy plus a process admitting a simple feedback-type representation.     

Longevity risk management for life and variable annuities: The effectiveness of static hedging using longevity bonds and derivatives

For many years, the longevity risk of individuals has been underestimated, as survival probabilities have improved across the developed world. The uncertainty and volatility of future longevity has posed significant risk issues for both individuals and product providers of annuities and pensions. This paper investigates the effectiveness of static hedging strategies for longevity risk management using longevity bonds and derivatives (q-forwards) for the retail products: life annuity, deferred life annuity, indexed life annuity, and variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime benefits. Improved market and mortality models are developed for the underlying risks in annuities. The market model is a regime-switching vector error correction model for GDP, inflation, interest rates, and share prices. The mortality model is a discrete-time logit model for mortality rates with age dependence. Models were estimated using Australian data. The basis risk between annuitant portfolios and population mortality was based on UK experience. Results show that static hedging using q-forwards or longevity bonds reduces the longevity risk substantially for life annuities, but significantly less for deferred annuities. For inflation-indexed annuities, static hedging of longevity is less effective because of the inflation risk. Variable annuities provide limited longevity protection compared to life annuities and indexed annuities, and as a result longevity risk hedging adds little value for these products.     

我国股指期货的套期保值比率研究

本文主要运用OLS、VAR、ECM、diagonal-BEKK、full-BEKK、scalar-BEKK对沪深300股指期货仿真交易的套期保值比率进行研究,比较了静态套期模型和动态套期保值模型的效果,并研究不同参数化形式对动态套期保值模型的影响。结果表明尽管动态套期保值在样本内要优于静态套期保值模型,但样本外效果却不是很好;另外,动态模型的不同的参数化形式对结果的影响也比较大。     

Wavelet-based option pricing: An empirical study

In this paper, we scrutinize the empirical performance of a wavelet-based option pricing model which leverages the powerful computational capability of wavelets in approximating risk-neutral moment-generating functions. We focus on the forecasting and hedging performance of the model in comparison with that of popular alternative models, including the stochastic volatility model with jumps, the practitioner Black–Scholes model and the neural network based model. Using daily index options written on the German DAX 30 index from January 2009 to December 2012, our results suggest that the wavelet-based model compares favorably with all other models except the neural network based one, especially for long-term options. Hence our novel wavelet-based option pricing model provides an excellent nonparametric alternative for valuing option prices.     

Pricing and hedging equity-linked life insurance contracts beyond the classical paradigm: The principle of equivalent forward preferences

By applying the principle of equivalent forward preferences, this paper revisits the pricing and hedging problems for equity-linked life insurance contracts. The equity-linked contingent claim depends on, not only the future lifetime of the policyholder, but also the performance of the reference portfolio in the financial market for the segregated account of the policyholder. For both zero volatility and non-zero volatility forward utility preferences, prices and hedging strategies of the contract are represented by solutions of random horizon backward stochastic differential equations. Numerical illustration is provided for the zero volatility case. The derived prices and hedging strategies are also compared with classical results in the literature.     

Pricing long-dated insurance contracts with stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility

We consider the pricing of long-dated insurance contracts under stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility. In particular, we focus on the valuation of insurance options with long-term equity or foreign exchange exposures. Our modeling framework extends the stochastic volatility model of Schöbel and Zhu (1999) by including stochastic interest rates. Moreover, we allow all driving model factors to be instantaneously correlated with each other, i.e. we allow for a general correlation structure between the instantaneous interest rates, the volatilities and the underlying stock returns. As insurance products often incorporate long-term exposures, they are typically more sensitive to changes in the interest rates, volatility and currencies. Therefore, having the flexibility to correlate the underlying asset price with both the stochastic volatility and the stochastic interest rates, yields a realistic model which is of practical importance for the pricing and hedging of such long-term contracts. We show that European options, typically used for the calibration of the model to market prices, and forward starting options can be priced efficiently and in closed-form by means of Fourier inversion techniques. We extensively discuss the numerical implementation of these pricing formulas, allowing for a fast and accurate valuation of European and forward starting options. The model will be especially useful for the pricing and risk management of insurance contracts and other exotic derivatives involving long-term maturities.