Srichander Ramaswamy, Frank J. Fabozzi

Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios

A Practitioner's Guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Expert guidance on managing credit risk in bond portfolios
Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios shows readers how to measure and manage the risks of a corporate bond portfolio against its benchmark. This comprehensive guide explores a wide range of topics surrounding credit risk and bond portfolios, including the similarities and differences between corporate and government bond portfolios, yield curve risk, default and credit migration risk, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, and portfolio selection methods.
Srichander Ramaswamy, PhD (Basel, Switzerland), is Head of Investment Analysis at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Lausanne.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780471430377
• ISBN-10: 0471430374
• Artikelnr.: 12343484

Autorenporträt

Srichander Ramaswamy is Head of Investment Analysis at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Lausanne. Previously, he was a financial engineer with Credit Suisse in Zurich. Dr. Ramaswamy is a contributor to the Journal of Portfolio Management and other professional journals. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1. Introduction. Motivation. Summary of the
Book. Chapter 2. Mathematical Preliminaries. Probability Theory. Linear
Algebra. Questions. Chapter 3. The Corporate Bond Market. Features of
Corporate Bonds. Corporate Bond Trading. Role of Corporate Bonds. Relative
Market Size. Historical Performance. The Case for Corporate Bonds.
Questions. Chapter 4. Modeling Market Risk. Interest Rate Risk. Portfolio
Aggregates. Dynamics of the Yield Curve. Other Sources of Market Risk.
Market Risk Model. Questions. Chapter 5. Modeling Credit Risk. Elements of
Credit Risk. Quantifying Credit Risk. Numerical Examples. Questions.
Chapter 6. Portfolio Credit Risk. Quantifying Portfolio Credit Risk.
Default Correlation. Default Mode: Two-Bond Portfolio. Estimating Asset
Return Correlation. Credit Risk Under Migration Mode. Numerical Example.
Questions. Chapter 7. Simulating the Loss Distribution. Monte Carlo
Methods. Credit Loss Simulation. Tail Risk Measures. Numerical Results.
Questions. Chapter 8. Relaxing the Normal Distribution Assumption.
Motivation. Portfolio Credit Risk. Loss Simulation. Appendix. Questions.
Chapter 9. Risk Reporting and Performance Attribution. Relative Credit Risk
Measures. Marginal Credit Risk Contribution. Portfolio Credit Risk Report.
Portfolio Market Risk Report. Performance Attribution. Questions. Chapter
10. Portfolio Optimization. Portfolio Selection Techniques. Optimization
Methods. Practical Difficulties. Portfolio Construction. Portfolio
Rebalancing. Devil in the Parameters: A Case Study. Questions. Chapter 11.
Structured Credit Products. Introduction to CDOs. Anatomy of a CDO
Transaction. Major Sources of Risk in CDOs. Rating a CDO Transaction.
Tradable Corporate Bond Baskets. Questions. Solutions to End-of-Chapter
Questions. Index.