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1 Corporate Financial Risk Management Managing Interest Rate Expense Flows at Risk By: Darren Zuckerman, Solutions Consultant, Reval September 2011 CONTENT Executive Summary Inroduction Exposure Evaluation Exposure Measurement Exposure Management Conclusion
2 Executive summary In the corporate fi nancial risk management world, there are certain best practice approaches that should be considered when it comes to managing exposures to different risks. The scope of this paper will defi ne a step by step approach on how best to manage interest rate risk in the post-global Financial Crisis market environment. These steps should to be taken to best control interest rate risk exposure, including evaluating, quantifying, and managing risk subject to uncertain market conditions. Introduction Corporate fi nancial risk management has become a hot topic over the last couple of years in light of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007/08. The markets have changed signifi cantly with there being a much higher level of uncertainty, more risk factors to consider, and an ever-changing regulatory environment. As a result, corporate treasuries have started to receive the board-level attention needed to allow for more optimal risk management approaches. The optimal risk management strategy should set out specifi c objectives and guidelines, while properly aligning the risk management approach with core and non-core business activities. A concrete methodology should also be set to evaluate the effectiveness of the risk management strategies to continuously keep up with the changing market conditions. Key steps to practical risk management include knowing why hedging is necessary, knowing how to hedge, and knowing when to hedge. When managing interest rate risk, it is therefore critical to understand the source of the risk, how much exposure to that risk exists, and the best way to minimize the risk. In short, three steps should be taken when assessing interest rate risk: 1. Exposure Evaluation; 2. Exposure Measurement; 3. Exposure Management About the author Darren Zuckerman has fi ve years of experience in the banking and capital markets industry where he has had positions as an FX Spot Trader at Forex Capital Markets, Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley, and most recently, as a Solutions Consultant at Reval. Darren has been with Reval for three years spending part of his tenure at the company as a Consultant in the Professional Service s group in New York. He can be reached at info@reval.com ABOUT REVAL Reval provides an award-winning Web-based platform that automates corporate fi nancial risk management for a wide range of interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity and credit derivatives. The world s leading corporations and fi nancial institutions use this SOX-compliant Software-as-a- Service to support and execute hedging strategies from exposure capture through performance measurement and to comply with international and domestic accounting standards, including ASC 815 (FAS 133), ASC 820 (FAS 157), IAS 39 and IFRS 7. continued on next page 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 2
3 Exposure Evaluation The fi rst step is the exposure evaluation phase. This includes understanding the sources of interest rate risk exposure as well as the reasons why these sources of risk may occur. There are generally three categories that make up the sources of interest rate risk exposure. Each of these categories has business-driven rationale for why these exposures exist within in a corporation: - Fixed/Floating Liabilities Fixed/Floating liabilities are issued to maintain and expand business operations Effi cient way of raising capital without diluting shareholder value Optimizing debt/equity ratios Examples include fi xed rate bonds, fl oating rate notes (FRNs) - Fixed/Floating Assets Fixed/Floating investments made with excess cash, normally in short-term debt or bank deposits Examples include Interest Rate futures, Treasuries, Money Market Funds - Forecasted Transactions Meeting future corporate funding needs where capital is raised via commercial paper, forecasted debt issuances, etc About the author (continued) Reval deploys rapidly and integrates easily with treasury management and ERP systems. The company s SaaS platform and team of fi nancial experts are also available on an outsourced basis through Reval Center. Reval was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, with regional centers based in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Graz, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Gurgaon. For more information, visit www. reval.com or info@reval. com Once a corporation evaluates the sources of interest rate risk, it is in a much better place to understand how best to measure this risk exposure. Exposure measurement is crucial for optimizing a corporations risk management strategy as it provides a basis for how and when to hedge. Exposure Measurement The second step in managing interest rate exposure is the exposure measurement phase. With interest rate risk, the main component being measured is forecasted interest fl ows over the life of the exposure(s). As such, there are a few questions to ask when performing the exposure quantifi cation phase: 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 3
4 - What are the forecasted interest fl ows under normal market conditions? - What are the forecasted interest fl ows under stressed market conditions? - What are the forecasted interest fl ows are at risk in a simulated market environment under a specifi ed time horizon? Let s discover measuring interest rate exposure in the form of an example: Going back to the fi rst question, what are the forecasted semi-annual interest expense fl ows of this FRN based on the yield curve as of the issue date (Oct 1st 2010): *HY = Half Year The downward sloping nature of the chart explains a healthy upward sloping yield curve, indicating the interest expense fl ows increase for the longer dated cash fl ows. In aggregate, the total expense fl ows over the next three year period are ~-4.8MM EUR giving the corporation an indication of what interest expense cost it should expect to incur over this period Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 4
5 However, if the last three years of market activity is any indication of the future, the forecasted interest expense fl ows under current market conditions do not necessarily infer what the actual interest expense fl ows will be. To that end, it is crucial to assess what are the forecasted interest fl ows under stressed market conditions? In the below graph, there is an illustration of what the forecasted semi- annual interest expense fl ows will be over the next three years assuming a parallel 100 basis points shock across the yield curve as of the issue date: *Please not the 1st period shows less interest fl ows under stressed conditions since the rate fi xing has already been set, therefore only showing discounting implications. **HY = Half Year It is evident that there is a signifi cant impact on the forecasted interest expense fl ows. Specifi cally, interest fl ows increase to an aggregated MM EUR from -4.8MM EUR, or ~ 65% increase from normal market conditions. As a corporate risk manager, it is essential to understand the market risk associated with the fi rm s interest rate exposure. As seen from the Global Financial Crisis, interest fl ows were not what they were originally forecasted to be under normal market conditions! Many corporations may stop at the point of stress testing for quantifying their risk exposure. However, to ensure a corporation s risk management strategy provides a holistic view to measuring risk, it is essential to also understand what interest expense fl ows are at risk under a simulated environment in a specifi ed time horizon. This leads us to the last question in quantifying risk: What are the forecasted interest fl ows are at risk under a simulated market environment under a specifi ed time horizon? 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 5
6 A supplemental risk management tool that can be used to simulate what interest fl ows are at risk is running a Cash Flow at Risk (CFaR) simulation. A CFaR simulation provides a more holistic view to a corporate s interest fl ows at risk as it: (1) Develops confi dence intervals on how much market risk exposure a corporation can except to have; (2) Creates a risk profi le based on multiple risk factors (i.e. FX, Interest Rate, Credit, Equities); (3) Incorporates correlations between those risk factors; (4) Measures the effect that the correlations have on the underlying exposure being measured. In other words, measuring the market risk of an FRN is simply not enough. Most corporations have exposures to multiple risk factors, most of which may be correlated with the exposure being measured in question. The net result may be that the FRN has more or less interest fl ows at risk than a simple stress test assessment. Below is a graph of a CFaR simulation of 1,001 trials illustrating the aggregated CFaR for the mean, or expected cash fl ow at risk, as well as for a typical worst case scenario (95th percentile): From the chart, the aggregated cash fl ows at risk for the worst case scenario (95th percentile) are ~-8.116MM EUR, indicating there is a 95% chance the interest expense fl ows will not be more this amount over the 3 year time horizon. Taken in conjunction with the 100 bps stress test above, it is worth noting that the aggregated interest fl ows from the shocked yield curve are about 700K EUR lower than the 95th percentile of this CFaR simulation. The moral of this risk measurement story is that while the stress test provides a market risk assessment of the interest rate risk on a standalone basis, the CFaR model allows the risk manager to understand the affect of multiple risk factors as well as what a reasonable stress test shock is since the CFaR model provides confi dence levels here indicating a 100 bps shock falls within the 95% tail indicated in the simulation above Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6
7 Exposure Management The fi nal step is the management and minimization of the interest rate exposure. This process can be executed in a couple of ways, whether it is an asset/liability matching exercise or hedging underlying exposure with derivative instruments. When using derivatives, it is imperative to analyze the best instrument to hedge the underlying exposure in addition to the optimal hedge coverage ratio to use. Let s discover ways to analyze interest exposure in the form of an example: In this example, Company ABC has decided to hedge 50% of the 100MM EUR FRN exposure with a vanilla interest rate swap. The net effect of this hedge is exposing Company ABC to 50% 6M EURIBOR interest fl ows and 50% fi xed interest fl ows at a coupon of 1.927%. The chart below illustrates the impact on the aggregated semi-annual interest fl ows over the next three years under normal market conditions with that addition of the 50% IR swap coverage: *HY = Half Year 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 7
8 We can see from the graph that interest fl ows actually increase and an aggregate basis to ~-5.291MM EUR, about 500K higher than without hedging with an IR swap. This increase can be attributable to the fact that half of the interest fl ows are locked into a fi xed rate of 1.927%, which is actually higher than the short end of the 6M EURIBOR curve under stable market conditions. However, in prudent risk management it is not always about minimizing risk under normal market conditions, but it is more so relevant for risk reduction to adverse market environments. Below is a depiction of the aggregated interest fl ows for the FRN + 50% IR swap under stressed market conditions (100 bps shock): *Please not the 1st period shows less interest flows under stressed conditions since the rate fi xing has already been set, therefore only showing discounting implications. **HY = Half Year The aggregate interest fl ows in this case are ~-6.48MM EUR, which is about a 900K EUR savings from the un-hedged FRN under stressed market conditions. This illustrates a perfect example of how the value of locking in half of the interest fl ows at 1.927% saves the corporation money in an adverse market environment. The last step to effectively managing interest rate exposure is to understand the effect the 50% IR swap has on the CFaR simulation viewed above for the un-hedged FRN. Below is the chart delineation (red bars): 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 8
9 In this case, the aggregated interest fl ows over the next 3 years in the worst case scenario (95th percentile) are ~ MM EUR, which is ~684K EUR savings from the CFaR results from an un-hedged position. It is therefore evident that layering a 50% interest rate swap is effective in minimizing IR risk exposure in adverse market condition. A second example that can be used to manage IR exposure is an interest rate cap option: In this example, the corporation is 50% exposed to the fl oating rate 6M EURIBOR and 50% hedged with the interest rate cap. The cap effectively allows the corporation to incur interest expense up to 1.85% and anytime the yield curve increases beyond that (i.e. > 1.85%), the incremental difference will be paid by the bank to the corporation. The chart below illustrates the impact on the aggregated semi-annual interest fl ows over the next three years under normal market conditions with that addition of the 50% IR cap coverage: 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 9 *HY = Half Year
10 We can see from the graph that interest fl ows decrease on an aggregate basis to ~-4.1MM EUR, about 700K less than an un-hedged position. This decrease also illustrates the benefi t of using an interest rate cap instead of an interest rate swap to hedge the FRN. Since the optionality of the cap allows the corporation to only fi x the interest rate fl ows in higher yield curve environments, the corporation still benefi ts from the downside effect of interest rates. Now let s look at the chart of the aggregated interest fl ows for the FRN + 50% IR cap under stressed market conditions (100 bps shock): *Please not the 1st period shows less interest fl ows under stressed conditions since the rate fi xing has already been set, therefore only showing discounting implications. **HY = Half Year The aggregate interest fl ows in this case are ~-5.6MM EUR, which is about a 1.8MM EUR savings from the un-hedged FRN under stressed market conditions, and a 900K EUR savings of the 50% IR swap hedge. This is yet another example of how powerful the IR cap is from a hedge standpoint and the benefi ts it provides under normal and stressed market conditions. The fi nal analysis to be done on the analysis of the IR cap hedge is to look at the CFaR simulation over the 3 year time period: 2011 Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 10
11 The worst case scenario (95% percentile) cash fl ow at risk of a 50% IR cap hedging the FRN over three years is an aggregated -6.69MM EUR. Like the stressed market condition, the CFaR was minimized as well using the IR cap hedge, this time yielding a savings of about 800K EUR over a three year period. Conclusion In summary, below are the results of all the scenarios discussed: A couple observations can be made to summarize the results of each hedging strategy: - Both the interest rate swap and interest rate cap curtail the 95th percentile tail risk, by about 684K EUR and 1.127MM EUR, respectively. - Even though the interest rate cap comes with an upfront premium of 1.38MM EUR, it not only minimizes the tail risk of adverse market conditions by nearly twice that of the IR swap hedge, but also minimizes the expected interest cost by about 400K EUR under expected market conditions compared to an un-hedged position. It is now evident that the interest rate cap is the most favorable hedging strategy, as the interest expense outfl ows are less than the interest rate swap strategy under normal, stressed, and simulated market conditions for the reasons explained. After evaluating, measuring, and managing the interest rate risk exposure it is clear that the optimal hedging strategy is best executed at times with favorable interest rates that will minimize total interest expense outfl ows, and it is always best to consider multiple products to create the most prudent risk management approach Reval.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved 11
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