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Principal Component Analysis

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Fixed Income Trading: Unlocking Risk Reduction with OLS and PCA Hedging

Download PDF Introduction In fixed income trading, managing interest rate risk is a critical task for traders and portfolio managers. While traditional hedging tools that rely on duration or convexity are a good indication of how prices react to yield changes, they are based on limited assumptions with significant pitfalls Read more…

By BSIC, 2 years13 October 2024 ago

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BSIC Article of the Week: "Catching the Butterfly: BSIC Article of the Week: "Catching the Butterfly: A Relative Value Approach in OIS Curves"

When a yield curve misprice isn't random noise — it's a trade. We apply Principal Component Analysis to USD SOFR, EUR €STR, and GBP SONIA curves to reconstruct theoretical fair value, identify statistically significant dislocations, and pitch a live butterfly trade on the 6m GBP forward strip — all against the backdrop of a Bank of England caught between surging oil prices and a fragile disinflation path. 

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BSIC Article of the Week: "A Taste for Separation: BSIC Article of the Week: "A Taste for Separation: Analysing Unilever's Strategic Break-Up"

Unilever is separating its food business from its personal care empire in a $44.8bn deal with McCormick — a transaction nearly a decade in the making, structured through a Reverse Morris Trust to minimise taxes and maximise strategic focus. But with 65% of the consideration paid in McCormick stock and leverage climbing to 4.0x, the real question is whether this is a clean value unlock or a complex bet on execution. 

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Navigating the Next Cycle: Dealmaking and Capital Navigating the Next Cycle: Dealmaking and Capital Flows in a New Market Regime — what an evening! 

A huge thank you to Niccolò Consonni (EQT Group), Andrea Simonetti (Gruppo Unipol), and Chengxue Chen (Lazard) for sharing their expertise at Bocconi Students Investment Club's latest speaker event.

The conversation around deal structures, capital allocation, and where markets are heading gave all of us a lot to think about. Thanks also to Professor Massimo Della Ragione for moderating such a dynamic discussion.

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BSIC Article of the Week: "Black Gold, Broken Stat BSIC Article of the Week: "Black Gold, Broken State: A Primer on Venezuela's Collapse and the Economics of Recovery"

Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, yet has experienced one of the worst economic collapses of the 21st century — a paradox rooted not in resource scarcity, but in decades of institutional decay, fiscal mismanagement, and political capture of its oil sector.

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