Serving the Quantitative Finance Community

 
User avatar
ANORAK
Topic Author
Posts: 0
Joined: April 25th, 2005, 10:00 am

Quanto adjustment in Monte Carlo

February 27th, 2006, 12:49 pm

Hi All,Just looking for a bit of help/advice. I see a lot of discussions in relation to quanto adjustment on the message boards, but was wondering about a particular simulation question, hope this is not too similar to what has been posted before.If pricing a basket option on equity indicies in 2+ different currencies using Monte Carlo, should you make the quanto adjustment as part of the simulation step or at the end in determining the payoff? What is the best way of doing the quanto adjustment in MC? or does anyone have any good references.Thanks in advance for any help.
 
User avatar
quantie
Posts: 20
Joined: October 18th, 2001, 8:47 am

Quanto adjustment in Monte Carlo

February 27th, 2006, 4:57 pm

See hull page 499 for this. Say you have two stocks in EUR and USD then pick one numerarie to simulate [e.g. the USD Money market as numerarie] And then use the quanto-adjustment to adjust the drift of the eur-denominated stock. There are posts in this forum in several places also see Aaron's neck-tie paradox.