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by obenhuber
August 28th, 2008, 9:44 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Reuters Data Scope Select (DSS) (and Murex)
Replies: 0
Views: 50571

Reuters Data Scope Select (DSS) (and Murex)

<t>Hello,Does anyone has some expericences with using endofday market data from Reuters DSS ?And even further does anyone use DSS market data in Murex ?Regarding loading end of day data into MX3 for VaR and related tasks we are currently thinking about the best way to do that. Does anyone have some ...
by obenhuber
March 10th, 2008, 11:10 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Implementing interest rate models - books / papers
Replies: 6
Views: 58962

Implementing interest rate models - books / papers

Hello,Do you have some book/paper recommendations where a practical implementation of various interest rate models is done (including the concrete market data used and the concrete calculations ) ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
March 3rd, 2008, 2:14 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Market Data Providers
Replies: 0
Views: 57911

Market Data Providers

Hello,Does anyone have a good overview which provider to use for which asset class ? Which oder providers than Reuters, Bloomberg and Markit do you use ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
September 21st, 2007, 3:02 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Risk Management for Credit Derivatives
Replies: 1
Views: 64911

Risk Management for Credit Derivatives

<t>Hello,Does anyone have some good resources on how to set up risk management for credit derivatives (CDS, CDO, ABS, CLN, I-TRAXX, CDX, Basket CDS, MBS, ABS on CDS, ...) from scratch ?- books & papers- implementation issues- pricing (using which software)- risk management on individual and aggr...
by obenhuber
September 14th, 2007, 12:25 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Bloomberg (Terminal) Manual
Replies: 16
Views: 92367

Bloomberg (Terminal) Manual

Hello,Does anyone know if there are some Bloomberg manuals around (especially for the available pricing tools) ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
September 11th, 2007, 7:12 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: GARP Risk Academy – International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation
Replies: 0
Views: 66254

GARP Risk Academy – International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation

Hello,Has anyone some experience with this program ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
August 8th, 2007, 1:37 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Historical Scenarios for Stresstesting
Replies: 0
Views: 67214

Historical Scenarios for Stresstesting

Hi,I am looking for some freely available historical scenarios concerning the market rate perturbations (especially LTCM meltdown 1998 and the global bond price crash 1994). Do you have an idea if there are some internet sources ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
July 29th, 2007, 1:11 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Forecasting Rationality of Implied Volatility - Volatility Risk Premium
Replies: 1
Views: 68557

Forecasting Rationality of Implied Volatility - Volatility Risk Premium

<t>Hello,A brief description of the topic:In general, the forecasting rationality of implied volatility ist tested by regressing realized volatility on implied volatility. For an efficient forecast, the regression constant should be zero and the slope coefficient should equal one.Does anybody of you...
by obenhuber
July 26th, 2007, 10:08 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Front to Back Systems in Banks
Replies: 1
Views: 67742

Front to Back Systems in Banks

Hi,Can anybody tell me how to delete a post; I made this post in the wrong section ?Best,Christoph
by obenhuber
July 26th, 2007, 10:05 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Front to Back Systems in Banks
Replies: 0
Views: 68215

Front to Back Systems in Banks

<t>Hi,I would be quite interested in your experiences with the current Front2Back systems used at your workplaces, especially as far as the risk management modules are concerned.I personally have only good knowlege of the current Reuters products (Kondor+ and Kvar). My experiences with these product...
by obenhuber
July 26th, 2007, 9:54 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Front to Back Systems in Banks
Replies: 1
Views: 67742

Front to Back Systems in Banks

<t>Hi,I would be quite interested in your experiences with the current Front2Back systems used at your workplaces, especially as far as the risk management modules are concerned.I personally have only good knowlege of the current Reuters products (Kondor+ and Kvar). My experiences with these product...
by obenhuber
June 11th, 2007, 4:48 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Software for statistical / econometric / time series analysis
Replies: 7
Views: 71756

Software for statistical / econometric / time series analysis

Hello,I would be interested to know which tools you are using ? As far as I am concerned I work (besides excel ;-) with Mathematica, Eviews and R.Best regards,Christoph
by obenhuber
May 31st, 2007, 8:06 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Equity Basket Options - Deltas and Limit System
Replies: 0
Views: 70825

Equity Basket Options - Deltas and Limit System

<t>Hello,If you have an PLV option on a basket of USD equities (let's say 10 equities which are equally weighted at beginning) how do you calculate your deltas for each equity ? Do you shift each underlying by 1 USD or by 1% and how exactly do your deltas come into the limit system ? If you use the ...
by obenhuber
May 23rd, 2007, 1:53 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Stress Testing - Market Risk
Replies: 5
Views: 73518

Stress Testing - Market Risk

Hi,Some useful infos out of a survey by the Committee on the Global Financial System from 2005.Stress testing at major financial institutions: survey results and practice:http://www.bis.org/publ/cgfs24.htm
by obenhuber
May 21st, 2007, 8:33 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Stress Testing - Market Risk
Replies: 5
Views: 73518

Stress Testing - Market Risk

Hello,I found some links articles saying the "Derivatives Policy Group ("DPG") did some research on the topic but all the links seem quite old. Does anybody know if this organisation still exists respectively where I can find some info about it.Thx,Christoph
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