From the Inside Flap
Over the last few years, equity hybrid derivatives have gained the attention of financial professionals. Combining established asset classes—equity, credit, interest rates, and foreign exchange—equity hybrid derivatives pose a very interesting challenge when it comes to modeling techniques and forming a solid hybrid model framework.
Written by the Quantitative Products team of Deutsche Bank, the world leader in innovative equity derivative transactions, this book will acquaint you with cutting-edge thinking in modeling, valuing, and hedging for this market—which is increasingly being utilized for active investment strategies by hedge funds. Divided into four comprehensive parts, Equity Hybrid Derivatives offers a balanced, integrated presentation of theory and practice in equity derivative markets, with an emphasis on understanding new techniques for analyzing volatility and credit derivative transactions linked to equity.
Part One of Equity Hybrid Derivatives offers valuable insight into different volatility models and their applications to equity markets. It also contains some very recent developments in this field, such as variance swap market models. In Part Two, you'll receive a brief review of short rate models and their incorporation into equity interest rate hybrid structures. Essential examples covered here include the conditional trigger swap, convertible bonds, and the very important constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) structures. Part Three provides a thorough introduction to credit modeling and discusses its importance to equity-credit hybrid derivative structures. Pricing and calibration techniques are examined in detail and important examples like equity default swaps (EDS) are also given. The final part of Equity Hybrid Derivatives is dedicated to the advanced pricing techniques applied to various hybrid and callable structures. Here, you'll become familiar with everything from copulas and forward partial differential equations to numerical solutions for multi-factor pricing problems and American Monte Carlo techniques for derivative pricing.
Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Equity Hybrid Derivatives provides well-rounded coverage of this growing class of structures. In every instance, the theory and facts presented are clearly analyzed through graphs, formulas, and examples—making a complex topic accessible more than ever before.
From the Back Cover
Praise for Equity Hybrid Derivatives"Hybrids represent the fastest growing segment in the derivatives business. Written by perhaps the finest quant shop in the world, this book presents the state of the art in modeling equity hybrid derivatives."
—Peter Carr, PhD, Head of Quantitative Financial Research Bloomberg L.P., New York, and Director of the Masters in Math Finance Program, Courant Institute, New York University
"This is a unique book. It is a deep and sophisticated treatment of equity hybrids: the products, the models, the mathematics, and the numerics. Anyone with a serious interest in the market will need this book."
—Dr. Nick Webber, Director of the Financial Options Research Centre, University of Warwick
"The Quantitative Products Group of Deutsche Bank continues the study of the latest generation of equity derivatives with the same talent as in its previous books. The market has integrated a wide range of new asset classes such as realized volatility, hedge fund strategy, or hybrid structures in fixed income-equity and equity-credit, which are now booming. These hybrid products have also generated new numerical problems both for PDEs or Monte Carlo methods. To offer both a concise presentation of the risk analysis and a comprehensive overview of the pricing and hedging methodology of these complex exotic structures was a great challenge; I must say that I am very impressed by the result."
—Professor Nicole El-Karoui, Ecole Polytechnique Paris
"This is an excellent book on equity hybrid derivatives, written from the practitioner's point of view by a leading quant team. It provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art methodology combined with cutting-edge research in mathematical finance. The book is a most valuable read both for academics and practitioners."
—Professor Alexander Schied, Berlin University of Technology
