Numerical Experiments on Hedging Cliquet Options

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Fiodar Kilin

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Morten Nalholm

Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance

Uwe Wystup

MathFinance AG; Frankfurt School

Date Written: October 31, 2014

Abstract

In this paper, we conduct pricing and hedging experiments in order to check whether simple stochastic volatility models are capable of capturing forward volatility and forward skew risks correctly. As a reference, we use the Bergomi model, which treats these risks accurately. The results of our experiments show that the cost of poor volatility modeling in the Heston model, the Barndorff-Nielsen–Shephard model and a variance-gamma model with stochastic arrival is too high when pricing and hedging cliquet options.

Keywords: cliquet options, hedging, stochastic volatility models

Suggested Citation

Kilin, Fiodar and Nalholm, Morten and Wystup, Uwe, Numerical Experiments on Hedging Cliquet Options (October 31, 2014). Journal of Risk, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2791441

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