This document discusses new developments and challenges in the energy derivatives market. It outlines how new players like investors are interested in commodity-linked products for diversification and returns. Products have become more complex, involving multiple underlying commodities or indices. Modeling these complex products accurately poses challenges due to the non-normal distributions of commodity prices and stochastic volatility.
This document discusses new developments and challenges in the energy derivatives market. It outlines how new players like investors are interested in commodity-linked products for diversification and returns. Products have become more complex, involving multiple underlying commodities or indices. Modeling these complex products accurately poses challenges due to the non-normal distributions of commodity prices and stochastic volatility.
This document discusses new developments and challenges in the energy derivatives market. It outlines how new players like investors are interested in commodity-linked products for diversification and returns. Products have become more complex, involving multiple underlying commodities or indices. Modeling these complex products accurately poses challenges due to the non-normal distributions of commodity prices and stochastic volatility.
Alexander Eydeland Morgan Stanley New players in energy derivatives markets Traditional users of energy derivatives: energy producers, marketers and end- users. Main objective: to hedge energy exposure New players: investors - banks, institutional investors, hedge funds Increased interest in commodity-linked products: the investors point of view spectacular returns in the last few years diversification historically commodity returns are weakly correlated with equity or fixed income products and can be used as a separate asset class (Gorton and Rouwenhorst, 2004) protection against inflation caused by economic growth commodities are correlated with non-economic drivers: weather, environmental issues, supply constraints, etc. Increased interest in commodity-linked products: the issuer point of view Frequently the products can be split into several components that can be used as a long-term hedge of existing commodity market risks - a useful feature particularly when the markets are illiquid Example 1. Product: Energy commodity-linked bond. Issuer: Credit Suisse, 1998. Time maturity: 10 years. At redemption, holder receives par, In addition, holder receives semi-annual coupon. Each coupon is calculated according to the formula: Coupon = .73 x Percent_Gain NYMEX_WTI In this formula the coupon is calculated using percentage gain of the NYMEX WTI contract during the coupon period, provided that this gain is positive. For example, if during the coupon period the NYMEX WTI contract moves up from $50 to $55 per barrel, coupon payment on $1000 par bond will be .73*(.1)*1000 or $73. Next coupon would be determined using a new base price of $55. Example 2. Product: Energy commodity-linked note. Issuer: Canadian Imperial Bank, 1998. Time to maturity: 5 years. The note payment is determined by the price of the underlying basket consisting of a weighted combination of the light sweet crude and natural gas. If the basket price drops, the note holder receives par at maturity. If it increases, holder receives Par x (1 + 1.1 x Percent_Gain Basket ) If the basket price moves from $10 to $11 the holder of $1000 par bond receives $1000*(1+1.1*.1) = $1110 Example 3. Product: Commodity-linked note. Issuer: Sao Paolo IMI, 1998. Time to maturity: 5 years. Underlying index: a basket of petroleum, copper, gold, aluminum and zinc. Holder is guaranteed 17% gain even if the price of the basket drops. At maturity, holder is paid Par x (1 + 1.2 x Percent_Gain Basket ) If the basket price has moved from $100 to $120 holder receives $1240 There are similar products involving energy commodities; mostly, oil products or natural gas (rarely, electricity) New Developments: Increased volume and complexity Examples: The issuer guarantees that the sum of all coupons is greater than a specified percentage value. If the value is not reached over the life of the product, the deficit is compensated at maturity. Coupon dependent on the history of commodity prices during the coupon period, and not just on one price at the coupon payment day. For example, it may depend on the sum of all previous coupon payments. Various deal interruption condition can be included such as note call provisions, or stipulations that the product will be terminated when commodity prices reach specified levels. Frequent feature: use of baskets of instruments as an underlying index Baskets: may consist entirely of energy commodities may include, in addition to energy commodities, other commodities, such as metals may be combination of commodities with practically any other group of indexes we often witness products dependent on combination of crude, natural gas, metals, SP500, Treasury yields, LIBOR, etc. Creation of these baskets has become progressively easier in recent years with popularization of the Goldman-Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) and its various sub-indexes Hybrid Products Depend on several market/non-market drivers We interested in hybrid products which are exposed to at least one commodity Pricing requires analysis of correlation structure (in addition to volatility) Hybrid Products: Examples Price/Price spark spread options, crack spread options Price/Volume load following deals Price/Temperature products Basket products Rainbow options, Himalayan options Interest rates/FX/Equity contingent commodity products swaps, swaptions Credit/Commodity products cds linked to commodity price Spark Spread Options Tolling deals call on power with strike price dependent on the cost of fuels, emission and variable costs = option on spread between power prices and prices of fuels and emission basket of correlated commodity products (three or four products in the basket) objectives: power operator will guarantee stable cash flows stream (option premium) typically from an institution with higher credit rating power plant operator may also use these options to hedge against adverse power and fuel market movements marketers use these options to financially replicate power plant operation without taking on operational and other risks associated with running the plant Tolling Deals: Examples Unit Contingent Toll with Callback on High Gas Standard Toll: Buyer has the right to call for power. When the right is exercised the buyer pays the cost: Number MWh x Price of 1MMBtu of NG x Heat Rate + costs Callback: Seller has the right not to deliver power during not more than 10% of all hours of the year (if a specified unit is forced out) Tolling Deal with Limited Number of Start-ups during the year - complex path-dependent option Tolling deals with fuel substitution option Challenges: Correlation Structure Correlation has a complex term structure: seasonality, dependence on time to maturity Correlation smile: in Black-Scholes-type models used to price complex spread options correlation parameters may depend on underlying prices Example: Correlation vs Power_price/NG_price Price/Volume Products Swing options Load following contracts receiving fixed payments paying costs of serving the load: Price x Load Challenges: Potentially strong non-linearity (if the correlation is high) Complex correlation structure Inability to hedge all risks, particularly, risks associated with load fluctuations and load shape dynamics Need new approaches to valuation Basket Products Options on basket price basket components may include crude, NG, equity indices, bonds, etc. Rainbow or Best-of basket products pays the best annual return of the basket components Himalayan option every year pays the return of the best performing basket component and then this component is removed from the basket Challenges: Finding distribution of basket prices How to construct the volatility structure of the basket from the volatility structures of the individual components? Commodity-contingent interest rate/equity products Commodity-contingent interest rate swap floating leg - LIBOR fixed leg - fixed rate multiplied by the number of days (expressed as a fraction of the payment period) during which crude or other commodity prices are above a certain level Commodity-contingent interest rate swaption (typically, Bermudan style) Bermudan-style commodity-contingent guaranteed minimum coupon knock-out option Pays coupon dependent on the commodity price levels at the payment time Disappears after the total coupon reaches a specified level If at the end of the deal the total value of paid coupons is less than the specified value the last coupon pays the difference Modeling challenges Test: terminal distributions of returns at any time T is normal - justification for the use of geometric Brownian motion (GBM) as a modeling process SP500: distribution of returns is close to normal T T dP P Modeling Challenges Power, NG and crude prices: normality must be rejected; distribution has fat tails Modeling Challenges Crude: Fat tails of the distribution Modeling Challenges Distribution Parameters (A. Werner, Risk Management in the Electricity Market, 2003) 3.33 0.004 23% DAX 76.82 2.079 238% NP 6.p.m. 26.34 1.468 182% Nord Pool Kurtosis Skewness Annual. Volatility Empirical characteristics of energy commodities Implied volatility surface: implied volatility increases with time volatility depends on strike In addition, for spread options we must consider Correlation surface: Correlation depends on time to expiration Correlation depends on time between contracts Correlation depends on strike (heat rate, in case of spark spread options) WTI futures implied volatility curve Correlation between returns of Jan 04 NYMEX WTI futures contract and Feb04 - Jun05 WTI contracts Volatility has smiles, smirks, and frowns Stochastic Volatility (Heston, 1993) Volatility is a random variable price process volatility process 1 ( ) t t dP dt v t dW P = + ( ) ( ) ( ) 2 ( ) dv t v t dt v t dW = + ( ) 1 2 E dW dW dt = Stochastic volatility process generates more realistic price distributions Tails of CDF for terminal distributions generated by stochastic volatility process and by GBM New Developments Levy Stable Processes (for review see Boyarchenko and Levendorskii, 2002 ) Levy Processes with Stochastic Volatility: CGMY model (Carr, Geman, Madan, Yor, 2003) Regime-switching models Historic Power Prices vs. GBM paths Hybrid Power Price Model Power is a function of principal drivers 1. Demand 2. Fuel Prices 3. Outages Hybrid Power Price Model (Eydeland, Wolyniec, 2001) Model uses fundamental and market data s gen - function determined by technical characteristics of all power plants (efficiency, operational constraints, etc.) D - demand U - fuel(s) used - outages ( ) 1 2 3 ( ; , , , , , ) gen T T T T T T T P s D T U E VOM C = Hybrid Model generates realistic paths Actual prices vs. Modeled prices Risks Quantifiable risks market/price risk credit/default risk modeling/valuation risk financing/financial risk operations risk volumetric risk business continuity risk environmental risk Source: Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO), 2002 Non-quantifiable risks strategic risk operational risk staffing/organization risk regulatory risk political risk technological risk legal risk Managing market price risk Two methods of risk reduction Diversification Hedging Hedging in the perfect world V - option value F - price of a tradable instrument (for example, futures price) f - option pricing formula (for example, Black-Scholes) ( ) V f F = Hedging in the perfect world Delta Hedging: Combine long position in one option and short position in futures V F
Hedging in the perfect world
Change in option value vs. change in hedge value Hedging = risk reduction Reduction of the uncertainty of the future cash flows Energy deals and assets = spread options Power plants, tolling contracts = spark spread options Gas storage = calendar spread options Transmission lines, pipelines, transmission right contracts = geographical spread options Power Plant In the simplest case (immediate response to price changes, one fuel -- natural gas), the plant cash flow at time T: C -- capacity HR -- heat rate P T and G T are power and nat. gas prices at time T VOM -- variable costs 0 max( ,0) T t t t CF C P HR G VOM = =
Hedging spread options in the perfect
world What is needed for valuation and hedging? Joint distribution Evolution processes for power and fuel prices Cashflow function Sufficient amount of tradable hedge instruments (futures, forwards, options) Hedging in energy markets: real world Mismatch in asset/hedge maturities: long maturity of assets vs. short maturity of hedges Mismatch in granularity: fine (daily, hourly) granularity of assets vs. coarse (monthly, quarterly) granularity of hedges Mismatch in underlying commodity, dirty hedges. For example, fuel contracts in one location are used to hedge exposure in other locations Hedging in energy markets: real world Liquidity constraints: Price may depend on the volume Execution time may depend on the volume Wider bid/ask spreads Higher hedging costs distributions are hard to calibrate because of biases due to liquidity constraints implication: different hedging strategies may produce different option values Hedging in energy markets: short and medium term Hedge instruments are available although the set of hedges is not complete and mismatches persist Consequently, hedges are dirty resulting in residual cashflow variance Liquidity, in general, is not a problem for medium size deals Possible to follow the perfect world hedging methodology Hedging in energy markets: short and medium term Problems in defining the right evolution process empirical power price data shows mean reversion, spikes, high kurtosis, regime switching; processes difficult to calibrate due to lack of data and its non-stationarity Hedging in energy markets: short and medium term How is the joint distribution defined? Typically, by supplying correlation coefficient implicitly assuming that the joint distribution belongs to the elliptic family of distributions The correlation coefficient is computed using historical data Problem: correlation coefficient between power and natural gas (or oil) is not a constant; it has structure. Taking average will overestimate the option and miscalculate hedges Hedging in energy markets: short and medium term Other issues: Standard approach will have difficulties incorporating structural changes of the stack or demand Unlike cashflows of financial products, the cashflows of energy assets are determined by complex operating strategies: dispatch strategy for power plants or injection/withdrawal strategy for gas storage Alternative Method: Hybrid Model for Power Prices Model uses fundamental and market data s gen - function determined by technical characteristics of all power plants (efficiency, operational constraints, etc.) D - demand U - fuel(s) used - outages ( ) 1 2 3 ( ; , , , , , ) gen T T T T T T T P s D T U E VOM C = Hybrid method The benefits of the method: captures distribution properties (high kurtosis, spikes, volatility and correlation structure) correlation is not an input matches market data allows incorporation of future structural changes Hedge efficiency Back testing of hedging Managing other risks Credit risk - credit derivatives Operational risk - insurance Demographic, economic growth risks - contractual clauses All this increases the cost of risk management; these costs should be taken into consideration at the valuation stage References Boyarchenko, Svetlana and Sergei Levendorskii, Non-Gaussian Merton-Black- Scholes Theory, World Scientific, 2002 Eydeland, Alexander and Krzysztof Wolyniec, Energy and Power Risk Management: New Developments in Modeling, Pricing and Hedging, Wiley, 2002 Carr, Peter and Helyette Geman, Dilip Madan, Marc Yor, Stochastic Volatility for Levy Processes, Mathematical Finance, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2003) Rouwenhorst, K. Geert and Gorton, Gary B., "Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures" (February 28, 2005). Yale ICF Working Paper Heston, Steven, A Closed-Form Solution for Options with Stochastic Volatility, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1993) Disclosures The information herein has been prepared solely for informational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security or instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. Any such offer would be made only after a prospectiveparticipant had completed its own independent investigation of the securities, instruments or transactions and received all information it required to make its own investment decision, including, where applicable, a review of any offering circular or memorandumdescribing such security or instrument, which would contain material information not contained herein and to which prospective participants are referred. 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