Interest rate risk management using derivatives


Instructor led online course 

12 hours of intensive and practical training on interest rate risk management

Pay in INR or USD as per your choice

₹20,000

$300

Get a comprehensive and practical understanding of the world of interest rate derivatives and how they are used for risk management by institutions

Regulatory landscape

Learn the regulations, reports and regulatory expectations

Build models

Understand and build models for pricing, valuation and hedge effectiveness testing

Accounting aspects

Learn about how accounting reflects the hedge strategy and risk management objective

Stay updated

Keep step with the evolving derivative management practices in the industry

Who is this course meant for?

Insurance professionals in finance/ risk/ actuarial roles
Internal audit and governance teams
Individuals seeking to build a career in insurance
Pre-requisites for this course

- Basic knowledge of government securities
- General awareness of derivatives
- Experience of building macros in spreadsheets

Training coverage

Coverage aspects:
− Source and impact of interest rate risk
− Maturity in determining cash flows to cover in the hedging program
− Objective of interest risk management program

Learning outcome:
− Understanding cashflows and yield expectation
− Understanding levers for interest rate risk program 

Coverage aspects:
− Review concept for pricing derivative instruments
− Develop models to price these derivative instruments
− Points of interaction with counterparty
− Practical impediments and boundaries while entering into these derivative contracts
− Review term-sheet and understand parameters that affect the insurance companies
− Margin management and what would introduction of collateral other than cash would mean

Learning outcome:
− Understanding derivative lifecycle
- Get a hang-on how Day 0 P/L is computed and how it varies based on yield movement
- Differentiate between different terms used in the term sheet

Coverage aspects:
− Learn the structure of regulatory limits and limit breakdown to be followed while taking derivatives
− Learn reporting schema and possible explanation of each information provided to the regulator
− Difference between clean vs dirty notional and what is preferred?
− Senior management reporting and board packs to be provided on an ongoing basis

Learning outcome:
− Understanding regulatory requirements emanating from IRDAI, RBI and SEBI regulations
− Learning practical expedients for following these regulations

Coverage aspects:
− Construct models for valuation of derivative instruments from base market data
− Learn how exchange and counterparty undertake valuations
− Learn how to undertake stress testing and benefit in managing solvency and other parameters
− Develop VaR models and utilize them to manage fund liquidity in expected and unexpected situations
− Learn how to interpret and report these numbers on an ongoing basis

Learning outcome:
− Understanding concepts used for any valuation model with details on day-count and other convention
− Learn risk measures, sensitivities and their benefits

Coverage aspects:
− Terminologies; hedging instrument, hedged item, effective portion, ineffective portion and hedging relationship
− Accounting treatment through the hedging lifecycle as prescribed in the accounting standards
− Incremental vs Cumulative Accounting
− Accounting schema to be followed in case of margin and IOM accounting
− Accounting under scenarios where cashflows are not highly probable or ineffective hedge
− Derivative Asset / Liability, OCI and P/L reconciliation in case of FRA and computing total potential loss on the deal
− Understanding the three methods of hedge effectiveness testing through numerical examples

Learning outcome:
− How does derivative P/L work in case of in-the-money, at-the-money and out-of-the-money
− How is Day 0 loss lead to ineffective potion during the life of the derivative
- Understanding the overall P/L hit for the entire derivative contract

Total training hours

12 hours across 3 days 

Assessment involved

Yes - at the end of the course

Certification

On completion of assessment

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