Saturday, October 09, 2010

Soc Gen On The Art Of Hedging (Tail) Risk

Soc Gen On The Art Of Hedging (Tail) Risk: "

This week, Soc Gen's Stephen Antzak delivered the definitive presentation to a sell out (no pun intended) crowd of bankers and hedge funders, on how to hedge [idiosyncratic|market|correlation|marco] but most importantly, fat tail risk: the biggest bogey man in day and age when commodities open limit up, and when any day the ES can open limit down. What are the cheapest hedging strategies? What are the best pair trades? How should one be positioned in this environment of unprecedented correlation? All these and many more questions are answered by Antzak in this all encompassing presentation which we are happy to bring exclusively to our readers.

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