The contract before the chicken and the egg
To the perennial question “Which comes first; the music or the words”? Ira Gershwin responded, “What usually comes first is the contract”. And so it is with financial instruments like derivatives,...
View ArticleClassifying Derivatives (or herding cats onto a carousel)
It is always easy to find fault with a classification. There are a hundred ways of arranging any set of objects, and something may almost always be said against the best, and in favour of the worst of...
View ArticleRisk Factor classification example spreadsheet available for download
This example Excel spreadsheet illustrates the classification of derivative products into risk factor taxonomies. This could be for the purpose of evaluating their risk profiles e.g. for P&L...
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