Sunday, January 30, 2011

Equity Swap

  • A floating-rate (payer) equity swap
    • Net value
      • Zero on the reset date.
    • Value of the floating side
      • Par or
      • Face value (e.g. $10 million)
    • Replicating portfolio.
      • Borrow money for the time to maturity at a floating rate
      • Invest the proceeds in the underlying (e.g. equity index fund).

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