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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Cross-asset hedge ratio?

Definition 9.2 Strategies II: Volatility, Relative Value, Macro and the Bank Desks · Chapter 9 — Capital-Structure Arbitrage

A cross-asset hedge ratio is the quantity of one asset that offsets the model sensitivity of a position in another asset of the same issuer; in capital-structure arbitrage, the shares per unit of CDS notional that offset the CDS’s value change when the share price moves, minus the risky annuity times the implied spread’s derivative in the share price.

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