RISK MANAGEMENT FOR CHANGING INTEREST RATES
Interest rate risk Risk of loss on A/C of change in int. rates
Floating Rate Assets → Reinvestment Risk
(Risk of Income on Asset , Cost of liability )
INTEREST SENSITIVE GAP METHOD
𝑰𝑺𝑨
𝑰𝑺 𝑮𝒂𝒑 = 𝑰𝑺𝑨 − 𝑰𝑺𝑳 𝑰𝑺 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐 =
𝑰𝑺𝑳
𝑰𝑺 𝑮𝒂𝒑
𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝑺 𝑮𝒂𝒑 = ∆ 𝑵𝑰𝑰 = 𝑰𝑺 𝑮𝒂𝒑 × ∆ 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒔
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎 = ∗ ∆ 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒕 ≠ 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚
∗ 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒔 > 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚
Earning Impact
Rate ↑ Rate ↓
Improvement = Weighted IS Gap
RSA > RSL Profit #Loss
Limitations of IS Gap Method
RSA < RSL *Loss Profit
Immunizing earning Impact
Ignores impact on Net worth (Price impact
ignored)
# Decrease ISA
Difficult to bucket asset/liability Increase ISL
Extend Asset Maturity
Repricing time difficult to identify (Behaviour Shorten liability Maturity
Analysis)
* Increase ISA
Decrease ISL
Not including off - b/s items.
Extend liability Maturity
Shorten Asset Maturity
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Fixed Rate Assets → Price Risk Value Impact
(Risk of Asset Value , Liability value ) Rate ↑ Rate ↓
RSA > RSL Loss Profit
DURATION GAP METHOD RSA < RSL Profit Loss
𝑫𝑨 ×𝑨−𝑫𝑳 ×𝑳
𝑫𝒆𝒒 =
𝒆𝒒.
𝑫𝒆𝒒
𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒒 =
𝟏+𝒓
∆ 𝒊𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 ∆ 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒒. 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 = 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒒 × ∆ 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 × 𝒆𝒒.
Immunizing Price Risk / Value impact
𝑳
𝐷𝐴 = 𝑫𝑳 × 𝑨 LEVERAGE ADJUSTED ∆ in Net Worth or
DURATION GAP rates eq. value
𝐷𝐴 𝑳 {Leverage Adjusted Rates ↑ Decrease
= Positive
𝑫𝑳 𝑨 Duration Gap} 𝑳
𝑫𝑨 > 𝑫𝑳 × Rates ↓ Increase
𝑨
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎 = Negative Rates ↑ Increase
∆ 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒕 ≠ ∆ 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑳
𝑫𝑨 < 𝑫𝑳 × Rates ↓ Decrease
𝑨
Improvement:- Incorporate Sensitivities (Weights)
Limitations of Duration Gap Method
To immunize, locating precise asset/liability is costly
Immunization Dynamic (Rate Changes Duration Changes)
Difficult to find out embedded option duration (ex:- pre - payment)
Immunize only for small II shift (convexity not considered)
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Asset - Liability
Management
Strategies
Asset Management Liability Management Funds Management
Strategy Strategy Strategy
Funding through
liabilities is
Entire B/S is an
exogenously
Banks Can control optimization exercise.
determined or
funding (deposit or So, Manage both
strongly regulated. So,
non deposit) by using asset & liabilities &
Banks cannot control
control lever (OFFER control interest rate
liability but Can
RATE) risk within tolerance
control assets (whom
level.
to lend & at what
terms)
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