This paper considers the pricing and hedging of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). CDOs are complex derivatives on a pool of credits which we choose to analyse in the top down model proposed in Filipovic et al. (2009). We reflect on the implied forward rates and bring them in connection...

This paper provides a brief overview of the stochastic modeling of variance swap curves. Focus is on affine factor models. We propose a novel drift parametrization which assures that the components of the state process can be matched with any pre-speci fied points on the variance swap curve....