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Computational Finance 1/36

Panos Parpas

Computational Finance

Imperial CollegeLondon


Computational Finance Course

Contact

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Email: [email protected]

and tutorial helpers.

Look at the web for lecture notes and tutorials

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pp500

Course material courtesy of Nalan Gulpinar.

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pp500/


Course will provide

to bring a level of confidence to students to the finance fieldan experience of formulating finance problems into computational problemto introduce the computational issues in financial problemsan illustration of the role of optimization in computational finance such as single period mean-variance portfolio managementan introduction to numerical techniques for valuation, pricing and hedging of financial investment instruments such as options


Useful Information

The course will be mainly based on lecture notes Recommended Books

D. Duffie, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, Princeton University Press, 1996.E.J., Elton, M.J. Gruber, Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, 1995.J. Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivative Securities, Prentice Hall, 2000.D.G. Luenberger, Investment Science, 1998.S. Pliska, Discrete Time Models in Finance, 1998.P. Wilmott, Derivatives: The Theory and Practice of Financial Engineering, 1998.P. Wilmott, Option Pricing: Mathematical Models and Computation, 1993.

Two course works MEng test - for MEng students Final exam - for BEng, BSci, and MSc students


Contents of the Course

1. Introduction to Investment Theory

2. Bonds and Valuation

3. Stocks and Valuation

4. Single-period Markowitz Model

5. The Asset Pricing Models

6. Derivatives

7. Option Pricing Models: Binomial Lattices


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Introduction to Investment Theory

381 Computational FinanceImperial CollegeLondon


Topics Covered

Basic terminology and investment problems

The basic theory of interest rates

simple interestsimple interest

compound interestcompound interest

Future Value

Present Value

Annuity and Perpetuity Valuation


Terminology

Finance – commercial or government activity of managing money, debt,

credit and investment

Investment – the current commitment of resources in order to achieve later benefits

ppresent commitment of money for the purpose of receiving more money later – invest amount of money then your capital will increaseInvestor is a person or an organisation that buys shares or pays money into a bank in order to receive a profit

Investment Science – application of scientific tools to investments pprimarily mathematical tools – modelling and solving financial problem

–optimisation –statistics


Basic Investment Problems

Asset Pricing – known payoff (may be random) characteristics, what is the price of an investment?

what price is consistent with other securities that are available?

Hedging – the process of reducing financial risks: for example an

insurance you can protect yourself against certain possible losses.

Portfolio Selection – to determine how to compose optimal

portfolio, where to invest the capital so that the profit is maximized as well as

the risk is minimized.


Terminology Cash Flows:

If expenditures and receipts are denominated in cash, receipts at If expenditures and receipts are denominated in cash, receipts at any time period are termed any time period are termed cash flowcash flow..An investment is defined in terms of its resulting cash flow An investment is defined in terms of its resulting cash flow sequencesequence

–– amount of money that will flow TO and FROM an investor over time– bank interest receipts or mortgage payments – a stream is a sequence of numbers (+ or –) to occur at known time periods

A cash flow at discrete time periods t=0,1,2,…,n

Example1- Cash flow (-1, 1.20) means: investor gets £1.20 after 1 year if ash flow (-1, 1.20) means: investor gets £1.20 after 1 year if £1 is invested£1 is invested2- Cash flow (-1500,-1000,+3000)Cash flow (-1500,-1000,+3000)

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Interest Rates

Interest – defined as the time value of money in financial market, it is the price for credit determined by demand and in financial market, it is the price for credit determined by demand and

supply of creditsupply of credit

summarizes the returns over the different time periods summarizes the returns over the different time periods

useful comparing investments and scales the initial amount useful comparing investments and scales the initial amount

different markets use different measures in terms of year, month, week, different markets use different measures in terms of year, month, week,

day, hour, even seconds day, hour, even seconds

Simple interest and Compound interest


Simple Interest

Assume a cash flow with no risk.Invest and get back amount of after a year, at Invest and get back amount of after a year, at

Ways to describe how becomes ?Ways to describe how becomes ?

If one-period simple interest rate is then amount of money If one-period simple interest rate is then amount of money

at the end of time period isat the end of time period is

Initial amount is called principalInitial amount is called principal

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If an investor invest £100 in a bank account that pays 8% interest per year, then at the end of one year, he will have in the account the original amount of £100 plus the interest of 0.08.

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Compound Interest Invest amount of for n years period and one period

compound interest rate is given by

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Simple versus Compound Interest Rates

Linear growth and Geometric growth

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Simple InterestCompound Interest


Example: Simple & Compound Interest

If you invest £1 in a bank account that pays 8% interest per year, what will you have in your account after 5 years?

Simple interest: Linear growth

Compound interest: Geometric growth

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Example: Compound Interest

Assume that the initial amount to invest is A=£100 and the

interest rate is constant. What is the compound interest rate and

the simple interest rate in order to have £150 after 5 years?

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Compound Interest Simple Interest


Compounding ContinuedAt various intervals – for investment of A if an interest rate for

each of m periods is r/m, then after k periods

Continuous compounding –

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The effective & nominal interest rateThe effective of compounding on yearly growth is highlighted by stating The effective of compounding on yearly growth is highlighted by stating

an an effective interest rate

yearly interest rate that would produce the same result after 1 year yearly interest rate that would produce the same result after 1 year

without compoundingwithout compounding

The basic yearly rate is called The basic yearly rate is called nominal interest rate

Example: Annual rate of 8% compounded quarterly produces an

increase

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Example: Compound Interest

i ii iii iv vPeriods Interest Ann perc. Value Effectivein year per period rate APR after 1 year interest rate

1 6 6 1.061 = 1.06 6.000

2 3 6 1.032 = 1.0609 6.090

4 1.5 6 1.0154 = 1.06136 6.136

12 0.5 6 1.00512 = 1.06168 6.168

52 0.1154 6 1.00115452 = 1.06180 6.180

365 0.0164 6 1.000164365 = 1.06183 6.183


Example: Future Value

year cash inflow interest balance 0 5000.00 0.00 5,000.001 5000.00 250.00 10,250.002 0.00 512.50 10,762.50 3 0.00 538.13 11,300.63 4 0.00 565.03 11,865.665 0.00 593.28 12,458.94

Suppose you get two payments: £5000 today and £5000 exactly one year from now. Put these payments into a savings account and earn interest at a rate of 5%. What is the balance in your savings account exactly 5 years from now.

The future value of cash flow:

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Present Value (PV) - Discounting

Investment today leads to an increased value in future as result of interest.

reversed in time to calculate the value that should be assigned now, in the

present, to money that is to be received at a later time.

The value today of a pound tomorrow: how much you have to put into your

account today, so that in one year the balance is W at a rate of r %

)10.01(110100 PV

£110 in a year = £100 deposit in a bank at 10% interest

Discounting process of evaluating future obligations as an equivalent PV the future value must be discounted to obtain PV


Present Value at time k

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Present value of payment of W to be received k th periods in the future

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1

where the discount factor is

If annual interest rate r is compounded at the end of each m equal periods per year and W will be received at the end of k th period

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PV for Frequent Compounding For a cash flow stream (a0, a1,…, an) if an interest rate for each of the m

periods is r/m, then PV is

PV of Continuous Compounding

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Example 1: Present Value

You have just bought a new computer for £3,000. The payment You have just bought a new computer for £3,000. The payment terms are 2 years same as cash. If you can earn 8% on your terms are 2 years same as cash. If you can earn 8% on your money, how much money should you set aside today in order to money, how much money should you set aside today in order to make the payment when due in two years?make the payment when due in two years?

02.572,2£2)08.1(3000 PV


Example 2: Present Value

Consider the cash flow stream (-2,1,1,1). Calculate the PV and Consider the cash flow stream (-2,1,1,1). Calculate the PV and FV using interest rate of 10%.FV using interest rate of 10%.

Example 3Example 3: Show that the relationship between PV and FV of a : Show that the relationship between PV and FV of a cash flow holds. cash flow holds.

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Net Present Value (NPV)

time value of money has an application in investment

decisions of firms

in deciding whether or not to undertake an investment

invest in any project with a positive NPV

NPV determines exact cost or benefit of investment

decision

PVCostNPV


Example 1: NPVBuying a flat in London costs £150,000 on average. Experts predict that a year from now it will cost £175,000. You should make decision on whether you should buy a flat or government securities with 6% interest. You should buy a flat if PV of the expected £175,000 payoff is greater than the investment of £150,000 – What is the value today of £175,000 to be received a year from now? Is that PV greater than £150,000?

Rate of return on investment in the residential property is

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000,175

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Profit


Example 2: NPV

Assume that cash flows from the construction and sale of an office building is as follows. Given a 7% interest rate, create a present value worksheet and show the net present value, NPV.

000,300000,100000,1502Year 1Year 0Year

400,18£900,261000,300873.2500,93000,100935.1000,150000,1500.10

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Annuity Valuation

Cash flow stream which is equally spaced and equal

amount a1 =, …,= an =a payments per year t=1,2,…, n

An annuity pays annually at the end of each year

£250,000 mortgage at 9% per year which is paid off with a

180 month annuity of £2,535.67

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Present value of n period annuity


Annuity Valuation For a cash flow a1 =, …,= an =a

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Annuity Valuation

For m periods per year

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The present value of growing annuity: payoff grows at a rate of g per year: k th payoff is a(1+g)k

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Example: Annuity

Suppose you borrow £250,000 mortgage and repay over 15 years. The interest rate is 9% and payments are made monthly. What is the monthly payment which is needed to pay off the mortgage?

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0.992555810.9925558.000,250

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Perpetuity Valuation

perpetuities are assets that generate the same cash flow forever pay a coupon at the end of each year and never matures annuity is called a perpetuity when number of payments becomes infinite

For m periods per year;

Present value of growing perpetuity at a rate of g

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