Recently academic researchers and practitioners have use the asymptotic expansion method to examine a variety of financial issues under high-dimensional stochastic environments. This methodology is mathematically justified by Watanabe theory (Watanabe, 1987), and Malliavin calculus (Yoshida,...

This paper proposes a new scheme for the static replication of European options and their portfolios. First, we derive a general approximation formula for efficient static replication as an extension of Carr and Chou (1997, 2002) and Carr and Wu (2002). Second, we present a concrete procedure...

This paper proposes a new scheme for static hedging of European path-independent derivatives under stochastic volatility models. First, we show that pricing European path-independent derivatives under stochastic volatility models is transformed to pricing those under one-factor local volatility...

In this paper, we have studied the pricing of a continuously collateralized CDS. We have made use of the "survival measure" to derive the pricing formula in a straightforward way. As a result, we have found that there exists irremovable trace of the counter party as well as the investor in the...

This paper proposes a general approximation method for the solution to a second-order parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) widely used in finance through an extension of Leandre's approach (Leandre, 2006, 2008) and the Bismut identiy (e.g. chapter IX-7 of Malliavin, 1997) in Malliavin...

In this work, we apply our newly proposed perturbative expansion technique to a quadratic growth FBSDE appearing in an incomplete market with stochastic volatility that is not perfectly hedgeable. By combining standard asymptotic expansion technique for the underlying volatility process, we...

This paper provides a new method to construct a dynamic optimal portfolio for asset management. This method generates a target payoff distribution using the cheapest dynamic trading strategy. As a practical example, the method is applied to hedge fund replication. This dynamic portfolio strategy...

The mean-variance hedging (MVH) problem is studied in a partially observable market where the drift processes can only be inferred through the observation of asset or index processes. Although most of the literatures treat the MVH problem by the duality method, here we study a system consisting...

There are now available wide variety of swap products which exchange Libors with different currencies and tenors. Furthermore, the collateralization is becoming more and more popular due to the increased attention to the counter party credit risk. These developments require clear distinction...

This chapter provides a comprehensive explanation of hedge fund replication. This chapter first reviews the characteristics of hedge fund returns. Then, the emergence of hedge fund replication products is discussed. Hedge fund replication methods are classified into three categories: rule-based,...