Denna uppsats behandlar vilka faktorer som påverkar svenska fastighetsbolags syn på ränteswappar och huruvida coronapandemin, IFRS regelverket, den nya referensräntan Swestr eller bolagens rating har någon betydelse i detta. Studien undersöker vidare hur stor efterfrågan på räntederivat tidigare har varit, samt hur framtidsutsikterna ser ut gällande användandet av ränteswappar. För att besvara studiens problemformulering har en kvalitativ metod använts, där fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med både fastighetsbolag och en bank varit utgångspunkten till arbetets slutsats. Studiens resultat visar att samtliga tillfrågade fastighetsbolag har en egen räntesäkringsstrategi och egna preferenser vad gäller räntederivat. Idag använder en klar majoritet av svenska fastighetsbolag ränteswappar i sina räntesäkringsstrategier, men studien tyder på att mindre aktörer på marknaden eventuellt i framtiden kommer söka sig till simplare lösningar. Vidare visar studien att varken coronapandemin, IFRS regelverket eller Swestr påverkar fastighetsbolagens förhållningssätt till ränteswappar. Däremot kan det externa ratingbetyget indirekt ha en koppling till hur ett fastighetsbolag väljer att hedga sig mot räntefluktuationer.  Studiens område är fortsatt vagt undersökt och ämnet kommer förbli intressant att forska vidare på i framtiden. / This study deals with the factors that affect Swedish real estate companies´ views on interest rate swaps and whether the corona pandemic, the IFRS regulations, the new reference interest rate Swestr or the companies external rating have any significance in this. The study further examines how the demand for interest rate swaps has changed and how the future looks like. To fulfill the purpose of the study, a qualitative method has been used, with five semi-structured interviews with both real estate companies and a bank. The collected answers have formed the basis of this paper's conclusion.  The results of the study show that all real estate companies surveyed have their own interest rate hedging strategy, and their own preferences on interest rate derivatives. A majority of Swedish real estate companies use interest rate swaps today in their interest rate hedging strategies, but this study indicates that smaller real estate corporations in the market may seek more simple solutions in the future. Furthermore, the study indicates that neither the coronavirus pandemic, the IFRS regulations nor Swestr has an impact in the real estate companies´ approach towards interest rate swaps. On the other hand, the external rating can indirectly be a reason why real estate companies choose to hedge with interest rate derivatives against interest rate fluctuations. The field of study is still vaguely researched and the subject will remain interesting to research in the future.

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Text in Afrikkans / Summaries in English and Afrikaans / The capital-adequacy problem is essentially concerned with the amount of capital that a bank should maintain in order to conduct its operations in a prudent manner. Because one of the primary functions of bank capital is to act as a risk cushion for the protection of a bank's depositors, a bank's capital funds are often regarded as comprising an insurance element. The capital-adequacy concept, therefore, may be seen as part of the overall banking risk, or prudential management. An attempt has been made to indicate that bank supervisors should use not only capital ratios when analysing a bank's capital position. Other factors, such as asset quality and other financial risks, should also be taken in consideration. Financial ratio analysis, however, provides bank supervisors with useful information. When combining ratio analysis with non-quantifiable factors, bank supervisors may indeed achieve their goal of determining capital adequacy. / Die kapitaaltoereikendheidsprobleem is hoofsaaklik gebaseer op die hoeveelheid kapitaal waaroor 'n bankinstelling moet beskik, ten einde die bankbesigheid op 'n verstandige wyse te bedryf. Een van die primere funksies van kapitaal is om te dien as verliesabsorberingsbuffer ter beskerming van 'n bankinstelling se deposante, en daarom word toereikende kapitaal dikwels geag om 'n soort versekeringselement te bevat. Die konsep van kapitaaltoereikendheid kan dus beskou word as deel van die totale risikobestuurskonsep. Daar is tydens die studie gepoog om aan te dui dat banktoesighouers nie net kapitaalverhoudings behoort te gebruik om 'n bankinstelling se kapitaalposisie te ontleed nie. Ander faktore, soos batekwaliteit en antler finansiele risiko's, moet ook in ag geneem word. Finansiele verhoudingsgetalontledings voorsien banktoesighouers van waardevolle inligting. Indien verhoudingsgetalle egter met nie-gekwantifiseerde inligting gekombineer sou word, kan banktoesighouers hul doel om kapitaaltoereikendheid te bepaal, bereik. / M.Com. (Business Management)

摘要 衡量壽險公司利率風險的初步作法是估算保單的存續期間。保單的存續期間因現金流量模式的不同與一般債券的存續期間有很大的差異。壽險保單未來不只會產生現金流出 （給付和費用），還會有現金流入（保費），其淨現金流量因而有可能變號，所以壽險保單的存續期問可能小於○，也可能大於到期日，甚至還可能因為準備金接近○的關係而有很大的數值。此外，保單的存續期間不太受死亡率下降的影響，解約率升高通常會使存續期問的數值降低，而佣金的平準化則會使原本正的存續期問變小。從壽險公司銷售保單組合可能的結果（平穩、成長、衰退等三種型態）來分析負債存續期間，由其結果可知一個新創立或成長型的壽險公司其所面臨利率風險的衝擊要大於一個處於平穩型或衰退型的壽險公司。 關鍵字：存續期間、利率風險、淨現金流量、壽險保單、準備金 / Abstract Estimating the duration of the life insurance policy is the first step in measuring the interest rate risk of the life insurance company. Life insurance policy's duration is quite different from bond's due to the difference in the pattern of cash flows. Life insurance policies generate not only cash outflows as payments to policyholders from insurance companies but also cash inflows as premiums from policyholders to insurers. Furthermore, the net cash flow usually turns from inflow to outflow as time goes by. The duration of the life insurance policy therefore could be negative or longer than the maturity of the policy. It could even be huge if its reserve is close to zero. Besides, the mortality rate does not have a significant impact on policy duration; early surrenders of policies would reduce policy duration in general; and leveling commission rate would make positive duration smaller. Findings concluding from analyzing the likely results, referring to the steadying, growing and declining modes, of insurance portfolios offered by life insurance companies for analyzing their liability duration, indicate that the interest rate risk exposure by a start-up life insurance company or a growing life insurance company is greater than a life insurance company that is at a steadying or declining phase. Keywords: duration, interest rate risk, net cash flow, life insurance policies, reserve.

The diploma thesis deals mostly with interest rate risk issue. It describes the basic methods of interest rate risk measurement with use of analyses executing by Asset Liability Management department in banks. Such analyses as repricing GAP, net interest income analysis, market value of equity and sensitivity analyses to interest rate movements. There is an analysis of Czech crown yield curve as well, in order to deeper insight of its probability behaviour. Results of this analysis are used for advanced techniques in ALM. Especially knowledge of volatilities of particular yield points and theirs relations is used in these methods. There was also a multi equation model for predictions of yield curve development created. One of the variables in the model there is the 2-week repo rate of Czech National Bank included.

När en företagsobligation och en statsobligation har samma löptid och har en skillnad i avkastning, så kallas denna skillnad för kreditspread. Ett känt koncept inom finansvärlden är att risk har en stark koppling till avkastning. När emittenten av obligationen inte kan återbetala överenskommen utdelning eller principiellt lånebelopp så klassas detta som en betalningsinställelse. Eftersom det generellt sett är större risk för en betalningsinställelse för ett företag än för en stat, så vill investerare bli kompenserade för den extra risken de tar sig an. Den totala risken som utgör skillnaden i avkastning kan i sin tur delas upp i flera olika riskkomponenter. Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka ifall likviditetsrisk, ränterisk och kreditrisk har en effekt på kreditspread för företagsobligationer på den svenska marknaden. Med detta som bakgrund så har vi samlat in historiska data på förfallna obligationer under de senaste 10 åren via databaserna Thomson Reuter Datastream och Eikon. Vi har sedan laddat ned obligationsspecifika egenskaper i form av finansiella nyckeltal för samtliga obligationer. Dessa nyckeltal har valts för att till bästa förmåga representera och mäta respektive risk. Exempelvis så har vi använt oss av nyckeltalet “bid-ask-spread” för att mäta likviditetsrisk hos en obligation. För att undersöka sambandet mellan våra valda risker och kreditspread så genomförde vi ett hypotestest. Vi skapade en nollhypotes och en alternativhypotes som vi sedan testade med hjälp av en multipel regression. Nollhypotes (H0): Studiens utvalda variabler har inte en effekt på den kreditspread hos svenska företagsobligationer Alternativhypotes (Ha): Studiens utvalda variabler har en effekt på den kreditspread hos svenska företagsobligationer Slutsatsen var att vi kunde statistiskt påvisa ett positivt samband mellan riskernas storlek och storleken på obligationens kreditspread. Detta gjordes både för riskerna var för sig och för modellen när den blev testad i sin helhet. Den bakomliggande teorin bakom variablerna kunde därför antas vara korrekt även vid applicering på svenska marknaden för det senaste decenniet. Vi har som ambition att denna studie skall kunna agera som ett verktyg för fundamental analys för framtida investerare samt vidare studier inom området obligationer på svenska marknaden

This thesis addresses the absence of explicit pricing formulae and the complexity of proposed models (incomplete markets framework) in the area of mortality risk management requiring the application of advanced techniques from the realm of Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Science. In fact, this is a multi-essay dissertation contributing in the direction of designing and pricing mortality-linked derivatives and offering the state of art solutions to manage longevity risk. The first essay investigates the valuation of Catastrophic Mortality Bonds and, in particular, the case of the Swiss Re Mortality Bond 2003 as a primary example of this class of assets. This bond was the first Catastrophic Mortality Bond to be launched in the market and encapsulates the behaviour of a well-defined mortality index to generate payoffs for bondholders. Pricing this type of bond is a challenging task and no closed form solution exists in the literature. In my approach, we adapt the payoff of such a bond in terms of the payoff of an Asian put option and present a new methodology to derive model-independent bounds for catastrophic mortality bonds by exploiting the theory of comonotonicity. While managing catastrophic mortality risk is an upheaval task for insurers and re-insurers, the insurance industry is facing an even bigger challenge - the challenge of coping up with increased life expectancy. The recent years have witnessed unprecedented changes in mortality rate. As a result academicians and practitioners have started treating mortality in a stochastic manner. Moreover, the assumption of independence between mortality and interest rate has now been replaced by the observation that there is indeed a correlation between the two rates. Therefore, my second essay studies valuation of Guaranteed Annuity Options (GAOs) under the most generalized modeling framework where both interest rate and mortality risk are stochastic and correlated. Pricing these types of options in the correlated environment is an arduous task and a closed form solution is non-existent. In my approach, I employ the use of doubly stochastic stopping times to incorporate the randomness about the time of death and employ a suitable change of measure to facilitate the valuation of survival benefit, there by adapting the payoff of the GAO in terms of the payoff of a basket call option. I then derive general price bounds for GAOs by employing the theory of comonotonicity and the Rogers-Shi (Rogers and Shi, 1995) approach. Moreover, I suggest some `model-robust' tight bounds based on the moment generating function (m.g.f.) and characteristic function (c.f.) under the affine set up. The strength of these bounds is their computational speed which makes them indispensable for annuity providers who rely heavily on Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the fair market value of Guaranteed Annuity Options. In fact, sans Monte Carlo, the academic literature does not offer any solution for the pricing of the GAOs. I illustrate the performance of the bounds for a variety of affine processes governing the evolution of mortality and the interest rate by comparing them with the benchmark Monte Carlo estimates. Through my work, I have been able to express the payoffs of two well known modern mortality products in terms of payoffs of financial derivatives, there by filling the gaps in the literature and offering state of art techniques for pricing of these sophisticated instruments.

本研究主要是針對投資型年金之資產負債管理作探討，其中是就規避利率風險對於資產負債管理上的影響以及分析資產配置最適化作為研究的架構，而所利用的研究方法乃是取決於建構利率隨機模型並輔以免疫理論與Markowitz投資組合理論，以期在規避利率風險的同時，亦能將資產配置達至最佳化。 首先，為實際模擬出符合現實經濟環境變動下的隨機利率期間模型，本研究利用C.I.R利率期間結構模型來建構年金保單期間的利率結構，並且由於投資型年金之保單價值的累積特性，因此本研究同時亦建構出連接保單價值的投資資產之報酬率型態，進而模擬出各期之現金流量以及各項投資資產的存續期間；再者，藉由Markowitz投資組合理論，以在免疫條件之限制下進行最適資產配置之評估。 最後，以某知名的保險公司所推出的投資型年金商品作為本研究之實證對象，透過模擬之方法，將研究模型中之各項參數予以評估，並且根據上述之研究過程將免疫理論與投資組合理論相連接，以檢視投資型年金商品在規避利率風險的狀態下，其最適之資產配置比例是否與現行法令之規範相牴觸，而能給予適時之建議。另外，由本實證結果可知，經由本研究的分析流程，可以有效地給予年金管理者規劃出年金資產負債管理時的最適投資組合比例，並且在增加外國投資資產時，更能有效的增加年金資產之報酬，同時也不影響保險法對於投資資產的比例與總金額之限制。再者，對於探討規避利率風險前後之資產組合之資產報酬之變化時，可以進一步了解到，當年金管理者在運用免疫策略來規避利率風險時，其所面對的風險成本之多寡，以作為制定避險決策時的依據。 / This research explores the asset-liability management (ALM) for the Investment-Link-Annuity. Two aspects investigated in this research are the interest rate risk and the optimal asset allocation. Moreover, the major issue investigated here is the trade-off between the optimal investment return and the hedge of interest rate risk. We refer this trade-off as ALM cost. By using stochastic interest rate model, Immunization theory and Portfolio Selection Model, we construct an ALM model to achieve the optimal asset allocation given on hedging the interest rate risk under the immunization strategies for the insurance company. First, we utilize the public trading data for investment market in Taiwan and in USA from 1985 to 2000 and the investment-link annuity product of a well-know insurance company in Taiwan to simulate the cash flow and demonstrate the implementation of our model. By analyzing different simulations under various scenarios, the empirical results are as the followings: 1.The ALM cost for immunization strategies is very small, and is estimated to be about 1% to 2%. Therefore, we suggest that insurance companies should start to undertake the asset liability management as soon as possible. 2.If relaxing the investment restrictions of Insurance Law or allowing insurance company to invest in foreign investment market, the overall investment return will be increased and the ALM cost will be reduced effectively.

在利率自由化的過程中，貨幣市場利率變化情形較以前劇烈，因此近年來 使得一些需要運用貨幣市場來融通短期資金的廠商與個人較以往面臨更大 的利率變動的風險。本文的主要目的在探討以芝加哥期貨交易所(CBOT)之 美國長期公債期貨合約、十年期公債期貨合約及五年期公債期貨合約及芝 加哥商品期貨交易所(CME) 的美國國庫券期貨、Eurodollar期貨之組合交 叉規避國內商業本票30天期、90天期、 180天期之次級市場的利率風險， 以了解利用國外利率期貨交叉規國內商業本票現貨利率風險的績效及不同 的避險期間與不同的避險比例對避險績效的影響。本研究之採樣期間 自1989年 1月至1992年10月底，並分為兩部份進行實證，一為整體樣本測 試避險模式、另一為樣本外交叉避險模式，且修正自身相關現象。 根據 實證結果，可以得到以下的結論與發現：1.在整體樣本測試交叉避模式之 自身相關迴歸分析中，當避險期間愈長時，則避險績效愈好。2.在樣本外 測試交叉避險模式--最適避險模式之價差迴歸分析與自身相關迴歸分析中 ，可以發現三種商業本票的交叉避險績效均以避險期間較短者擁有較好的 交叉避險績效。3.在樣本外測試交叉避險模式中，所有商業本票不論何種 避險期間，自然避險模式的交叉避險績效均比最適避險模式為差。4.在樣 本外測試交叉避 險模式--最適避險模式之價差迴歸分析與自身相關迴歸 分析中，可以發現所有商業本票，在單一期貨組合的交叉避險績效大致上 皆高於其他期貨組合的交叉避險績效，因此，在從事避險操作時，基於時 間及交易成本的考量，以單一期貨組合從事避險操作較為有利。

This master‘s final paper analyzes and systemizes theoretical and practical bank risk measurement and management analysis conducted by various Lithuanian and foreign authors; presents risk conception in banking sector. Comprehensively analyzes and evaluates bank’s market risk (interest rate, foreign currency and investment risk). The third part suggests market risk evaluation and management improvement opportunities in stock company Šiaulių bankas.