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Explanation:
The payoff for the correlation swap buyer is given by:
Where:
Thus,
\text{Payoff} = 10,000,000(0.31 - 0.28) = \`$300`,000 = 0.3 \text{ million}Q.1542 Suppose a correlation swap buyer pays a fixed correlation rate of 0.28 with a notional value of $10 million for one year for a portfolio of three assets. The following are the realized pairwise correlations of the daily log returns at maturity for the three assets: , , . Assuming that for all pairs, , the payoff for the correlation swap buyer is equal to:
A
$0.28$ million
B
$0.31$ million
C
$0.3$ million
D
$0.25$ million
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