问题如下:
Sushil Wallace is the chief investment officer of a large pension fund. Wallace wants to increase the pension fund’s allocation to hedge funds and recently met with three hedge fund managers. These hedge funds focus on the following strategies:
Hedge Fund A: Specialist—Follows relative value volatility arbitrage
Describe three paths for implementing the strategy of Hedge Fund A.
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解释:
Hedge Fund A’s volatility trading strategy can be implemented by following multiple paths. One path is through simple exchange-traded
options. The maturity of such options typically extends to no more than
two years. In terms of expiry, the longer-dated options will have more
absolute exposure to volatility levels than shorter-dated options, but
the shorter-dated options will exhibit more delta sensitivity to price
changes.
A second, similar path is to implement the volatility
trading strategy using OTC options. In this case, the tenor and strike
prices of the options can be customized. The tenor of expiry dates can
then be extended beyond what is available with exchange-traded options.
A
third path is to use VIX futures or options on VIX futures as a way to
more explicitly express a pure volatility view without the need for
constant delta hedging of an equity put or call for isolating the
volatility exposure.
A fourth path for implementing a volatility
trading strategy would be to purchase an OTC volatility swap or a
variance swap from a creditworthy counterparty. A volatility swap is a
forward contract on future realized price volatility. Similarly, a
variance swap is a forward contract on future realized price variance,
where variance is the square of volatility. Both volatility and variance
swaps provide “pure” exposure to volatility alone, unlike standardized
options in which the volatility exposure depends on the price of the
underlying asset and must be isolated and extracted via delta hedging.
能不能用中文解释一下呀,没明白,非常感谢