{"id":6709,"date":"2022-10-14T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T08:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:01:29","slug":"liability-driven-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/liability-driven-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Liability Driven Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the pension funds have to post collateral on their LDI portfolios?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/l\/ldi.asp\">Liability driven investments<\/a> by Investopedia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220928204845\/https:\/\/www.nnip.com\/en-INT\/professional\/insights\/articles\/leverage-in-ldi-a-wonderful-servant-a-terrible-master\">Leverage in LDI, a wonderful-servant, a-terrible-master<\/a> by NN Investment Partners<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmagroup.org\/assets\/documents\/Regulatory\/CICF\/Collateral-Fundamentals-7Nov2012.pdf\">Collateral Fundamentals<\/a> by icmagroup, dated 7 11 2012, a ,pdf<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From Collateral Fundamentals, &#8220;OTC derivatives trades start from a position of zero value, but over time mark-to-market value will accumulate to one of the parties. Collateral is used to mitigate that party\u2019s risk (i.e. counterparty credit exposure).&#8221; and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/otc-derivatives-collaterall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6710\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/otc-derivatives-collaterall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/otc-derivatives-collaterall.png 700w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/otc-derivatives-collaterall-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mark-to-markets is actioned periodically (preferably daily)<br \/>\n\u2022 As profits and losses on the derivative contract change, the collateral must be increased\/decreased accordingly<br \/>\n\u2022 Whilst two way credit support is preferable there are agreements where collateral is only required on a one way basis (eg if B owes A and not vice versa) Collateral: OTC derivatives<\/p>\n<p>Common OTC derivatives are: Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs), Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs), equity<br \/>\nderivatives and bond derivatives. For more see, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financestrategists.com\/financial-advisor\/derivatives\/\">Derivatives<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financestrategists.com\/about\/\">Finance Strategists<\/a>, a non-profit educational organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the pension funds have to post collateral on their LDI portfolios?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[137],"tags":[1830,1829,138],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","tag-collateral","tag-derivatives","tag-economics-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/canarywharf-reuterssq-unsplash-cropped-w1024.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11284,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/11284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}