Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management: Practical Innovations for Measuring and Controlling Liquidity, Spread, and Issuer Concentration Risk Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Lev Dynkin
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- Title Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management: Practical Innovations for Measuring and Controlling Liquidity, Spread, and Issuer Concentration Risk
- Author Lev Dynkin
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2011-12-06
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9781118117699
- ISBN 9781118117699 / 1118117697
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.23 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 15.82 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Investment analysis, Portfolio management
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011039273
- Dewey Decimal Code 332.632
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From the jacket flap
Written in an intuitive yet quantitatively rigorous style, this timely publication opens with a detailed look at new measures of spread risk, liquidity risk, and Treasury curve risk of credit securities. It presents strong empirical evidence of the benefits these measures offer to portfolio managers compared with current standard industry methods. From there, it moves on to examining applications of these risk measures to portfolio construction and management. The authors also examine the best ways of capturing more of the spread premium in credit portfolios. They explain the reasons that the spread-related returns earned by investment grade credit indices are so much lower than the "promised" returns implied by spreads at issuance.
All along the way, the authors maintain a sharp focus on the "out-of-sample" predictive power of their research results and their practical implications, with special attention given to the 2007-2009 credit crisis and the subsequent European sovereign crisis.
In this book, the authors:
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Build a case for a Duration Times Spread (DTS) approach to forecasting spread changes and managing risk in credit portfolios based on their finding that spread volatility is linearly related to spread levels
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Introduce a security-level numeric measure of transaction costs--Liquidity Cost Scores (LCS)--which enables investors to quantify the liquidity component of credit spreads and construct portfolios with desired liquidity characteristics
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Demonstrate an approach to optimal diversification of issuer-specific risk in credit portfolios
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Suggest downgrade-tolerant credit portfolios as a way to avoid discarding credit spread premium with the forced liquidation of "fallen angels" as they get dropped from investment grade indices
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Examine "fallen angels" themselves, as a separate asset class, with superior risk and return characteristics
Each chapter of this innovative publication is based on questions brought to the authors' attention by credit portfolio managers and reflects original research aimed at answering these questions in an objective, quantitative, and intuitive way. All of the new ideas and methodologies discussed throughout these pages were developed as a result of these inquiries. With this book as your guide, you'll gain a solid understanding of best practices in credit portfolio construction.