FINE 451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Interest Rate Risk, Yield Curve, Yield Spread

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Historically, the strategy has a very good performance (high sharpe ratio: yield curve carry: long & short zero-coupon bonds. Risk: interest rate risk: credit carry: long risky bond, short risk-free zero-coupon bond. Risks: strategy is exposed to changes in the ytm of the risk-free and risky bonds, default risk, cross-market carry: When exchange rates are involved, the concept of carry also assumes that the exchange rate remains unchained over the holding period. Example: long 100 cad in canadian 10-year zcb and short 100 usd in us 10-year zcb. Interest rate risk: swap spread tightener carry: Based on the assumption that the swap spread on the contract remains unchanged over the year. For a tightener: ct = swap spread (libort-1,1 rt-1,1) Suppose investors expect the average difference between libort-1,1 and rt-1,1 will be 50bp for t = 1 to.

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