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It is my understanding that OAS takes into account liquidity and credit risk. Z-spread adds option premium to OAS.
Here is my confusion:
If you are valuing a bond with embedded options (e.g. callable bond), you add same OAS to forward rates to find an arbitrage-free present value. Why are we callin this additional spread OAS and not Z-spread?
Second Confusion:
Similarly, I am somewhat confused where we do spread analysis for Fixed Income securities. For example, when looking at Mortgage Back Securities (with prepayment option), why are we using OAS and not Z-spread?
Thank you for your comments. |
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