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landscape. A slight error in valuation can lead to a big loss.
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Commodity Futures Swap
A commodity futures swap (CFS) is a linear portfolio of forward contracts on commodity futures. A commodity futures belongs to the category of arithmetic average forward contracts. Due to the linearity with respect to underlying asset prices, an arithmetic average forward contract is just a linear combination of ordinary forward contracts.
Commodity Futures Swap Details
Windows Barrier Option
An FX Double Window Double Barrier option can be seen as a special case of a complex barrier option, where we can have multiple single and double partial barrier (partial barrier meaning: the barrier is effective only on a subinterval of the full option term).
Windows Barrier Option Details
Inflation Linked Asset Swap
An inflation linked asset swap (ILAS) is a security in which a stream of inflation linked cash flows, that match the payments of an inflation linked bond, are swapped for a stream of cash flows that pay LIBOR plus a spread, or a fixed rate.
Inflation Linked Asset Swap Introduction
FX Option Valuation via BGM
We introduce the Brace-Gatarek-Musiela (BGM) model for pricing FX exotic options. The interest rate diffusion refers to the Brace-Gatarek-Musiela (BGM) model that is a multi-factor log-normal model.