Tid: 14 juni 2015 kl 15.15-16.00.

Föredragshållare: Lovisa Jangenståhl

Titel: Hedging intreres rate swaps (Master's thesis)

Abstract This thesis investigates hedging strategies for a book of interest rate swaps of the currencies EUR and SEK. The aim is to minimize the variance of the portfolio and keep the transaction costs down. The analysis is performed using historical simulation for two different cases. First, with the real changes of the forward rate curve and the discount curve. Then, with principal component analysis to reduce the dimension of the changes in the curves. These methods are compared with a method using the principal component variance to randomize new principal components

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