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Accreting
A description, applicable to a variety of instruments, denoting that the notional principal increase successively over the life of the instrument, eg, caps, collars, swaps and swaptions. If the increase takes place in increments, the instrument may be known...
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Accrual corridor
The Range within which an Underlying reference rate must trade for Coupon payments to accrue in a Range note or corridor Option.
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Accrual note
See Range note
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Accrual period
Period over which net payment or receipt pertaining to swaps is accrued. It is inclusive of the start date and runs to the end date without including the end date.
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All-or-nothing option
See binary Option
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Alpha
Alpha is used to measure the performance of a fund in relation to its Benchmark. An Alpha that measures 2.0 indicates a fund has achieved a return 2% better than could have been expected from its Benchmark.
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Alternative Risk Transfert
An approach to Risk management combining capital markets, reinsurance and investment banking techniques that allows a party to either free itself from risks not easily transferred via traditional insurance, or alternatively cover such risks in a non-traditional...
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Altiplano
An Altiplano is a type of mountain Range structure, which offers investors a fixed payout at he end of the product’s life on the condition that none of the assets that make up the Underlying basket have decreased below a given level. If the level is breached,...
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American-style option
The Holder of an American-style Option has the right to Exercise the Option at any time during the life of the Option, up to and including the Expiry Date. See also Option styles
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Amortising
A description, applicable to a variety of instruments, denoting that the notional principal decreases successively over the life of an instrument, eg, amortising Swap, index amortising rate Swap, amortising Cap, amortising Collar, amortising Swaption. If the...
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Annapurna
An Annapurna is a kind of mountain Range product, which offers a return equal to the greater of a capital guarantee plus a fixed Coupon and a participation in the performance of the Underlying basket. The level of the fixed Coupon and of the participation...
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Annuity swap
An Interest rate Swap in which a series of irregular cashflows are exchanged for a stream of regular cashflows of equivalent Present value.
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Arbitrage
A guaranteed or riskless profit from simultaneously buying and selling instruments that are perfect equivalents, the first being cheaper than the second.
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Arbitrage-free model
Any model that does not allow Arbitrage on the Underlying variable. Some simple early models assumed parallel shifts in the Yield curve, but the varying yields of different duration bonds could be arbitraged using butterfly strategies.
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Asian option
See average Option
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Asset allocation
The Distribution of investment funds within a single asset class or across a number of asset classes (such as equities, bonds and commodities) with the aim of diversifying Risk or adding value to a Portfolio. See also Overlay
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Asset backed security
An asset backed Security is a Security collateralised by assets such as bonds, credit card repayments, loan repayments or Real Estate.
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Asset swap
A package of a Cash credit instrument and a corresponding Swap that transforms the Cash flows of the non-Par instrument (Bond or loan), into a Par (floating Interest rate) structure. Asset swaps typically transform fixed-rate bonds into Par floaters, bearing...
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Asset/ liability management
The practice of matching the term structure and cashflows of an organisation’s asset and liability portfolios in order to maximise returns and minimise Risk. An institutional example of this would be a bank converting a fixed-rate loan (asset) by utilising...
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At-the-money
1. At-the-money Forward: An Option whose strike is set at the same level as the prevailing market price of the Underlying Forward contract. With a Black-Scholes model, the Delta of a European-style, at-the-money Forward Option Will be close to 50%. 2. At-the-money...
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Autocap
A standard Cap consists of a series of caplets Hedging Future floating rate payments. However, autocaps only provide a Hedge for the first pre-specified number of In-the-money caplets after which the Option expires, and so are a cheaper alternative to caps.
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Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (Arch)
A discrete time model for a random variable. It assumes that variance is stochastic and is a function of the variance of previous time steps and the level of the Underlying.
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Average option
A plain Vanilla option pays out the difference between its predetermined Strike Price and the Spot rate (or price) of the Underlying at the time of expiry. The purchaser of an average Option (average price, average strike, average hybrid, average ratio), on...
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Average price option
See average Option
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Average rate option
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Average strike option
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