标题: OAS with issuer spot rate as bench mark [打印本页] 作者: Andreas42 时间: 2011-7-11 19:24 标题: OAS with issuer spot rate as bench mark
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States that if the bench mark is the issuers own securities
and you have a positive OAS, the security is underpriced...
back on page 287, we are told that OAS with issuer spot curve reflects liquidy risk...
THUS, can we realy conclude that a positive OAS meens underpriced...
that positive OAS could be reflecting liquidy differences...?作者: ryanlb 时间: 2011-7-11 19:24
don't have the book in front of me but I think you're missing something. The point is you want a high OAS and low option cost. You have to compare to the benchmark....so if the BM has the same credit & liquidity risk, then you want the higher OAS作者: eoin 时间: 2011-7-11 19:24
"so if the BM has the same credit & liquidity risk then you want the higher OAS
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if the BM has came credit and liquidy risk, you should be fine with an OAS of 0, that would meen fairly priced ...
my problem with what they are doing is that they assume a positive OAS meens underpriced while they neglect the fact that even if the BM is the issuers own curve, if the security under examination has lower liquidity it may have a high required OAS and thus simply having a positive OAS is not enough作者: genuinecfa 时间: 2011-7-11 19:24
good point, find me an example作者: Sportsman 时间: 2011-7-11 19:24
dont have an example, but if you look in the CFA book where they first talking about OAS
they clearly tell you that when the bench mark is the issuer, OAS can reflect liquidy risk..
a few pages later they ignore than and tell you , positive OAS meens undervalued when the benchmark is the issuer...
