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LIST OF FIGURES<br />

5.8 Coupon payment structure of a coupon bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

5.9 Possible c<strong>as</strong>h flow structure of a FRN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

5.10 Coupon payment structure of a CDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.11 Compounding of recovery payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.12 Compounding of recovery payments of a CDS index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

6.1 Efficient frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

7.1 US Tre<strong>as</strong>ury Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

7.2 US credit spreads, rating cl<strong>as</strong>ses AA, A2, BBB1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

7.3 Model fit of US zero rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

7.4 Key statistics US economy, Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124<br />

7.5 Key statistics US economy, NIG defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

7.6 Densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments, 1 year time horizon, Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults<br />

(left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />

7.7 Left tail densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments, 1 year time horizon, Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 127<br />

7.8 Densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments without left tails, 1 year time horizon,<br />

Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . 127<br />

7.9 Densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments, 3 years time horizon, Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults<br />

(left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

7.10 Left tail densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments, 3 years time horizon, Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 129<br />

7.11 Densities of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments without left tails, 3 years time horizon,<br />

Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . 129<br />

7.12 Correlation of fin<strong>an</strong>cial instruments in US economy, Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults <strong>an</strong>d<br />

NIG defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130<br />

7.13 Minimum-vari<strong>an</strong>ce portfolio with Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d<br />

NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134<br />

7.14 Results of me<strong>an</strong>-vari<strong>an</strong>ce optimisation, 1 year investment horizon with Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

7.15 Results of me<strong>an</strong>-vari<strong>an</strong>ce optimisation, 3 years investment horizon with<br />

Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . 136<br />

7.16 Results of me<strong>an</strong>-vari<strong>an</strong>ce optimisation, 5 years investment horizon with<br />

Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . 137<br />

7.17 Minimum-CVaR portfolio with Gaussi<strong>an</strong> defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG<br />

defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

7.18 Results of CVaR optimisation, 1 year investment horizon with Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

7.19 Results of CVaR optimisation, 3 years investment horizon with Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 142<br />

7.20 Results of CVaR optimisation, 5 years investment horizon with Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

7.21 Results of score optimisation, 1 year investment horizon with Gaussi<strong>an</strong><br />

defaults (left-h<strong>an</strong>d side) <strong>an</strong>d NIG defaults (right-h<strong>an</strong>d side) . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

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