2019-10-18 Meeting notes
- Elisa Kendall
Date
Attendees
Agenda
1) Use Case reminder
2) Where we are on our road map.
3) Open Action Items
4) JIRA Issues Review - https://jira.edmcouncil.org/projects/IND/issues/IND-17?filter=allopenissues
5) Todays content discussion.
SMIF OWL-UML
SKOS
RDF/S
6) For next week.
Proceedings:
John provided a list of equity and bond indices for us to consider including in our use cases and for the ontology. These include:
Equities - US
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Transportation Average
Dow Jones Utility Average
S & P 500
S & P Midcap 400
S & P Smallcap 600
S & P 1500
Russell 1000
Russell 2000
Russell 3000
Wilshire 5000
CBOE Equity Volatility (VIX)
Nasdaq Composite
Nasdaq 100
Equities – International
Stoxx Europe 600 - Europe
CAC 40 - France
DAX - Germany
FTSE 100 - UK
FTSE 250 - UK
Shanghai Composite - China
Hang Sang – Hong Kong
Nikkei Stock Japan
MSCI World Index – Developed Countries
MSCI EAFE Index – Developed countries ex US and Canada
MSCI AC World – Developed and Emerging Markets
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Bonds - US
Bloomberg Barclays
Broad Market or Aggregate
US Corporate High Yield
High Yield
Mortgage Backed
ICE BofA ML
Investment Grade
High Yield
S & P Leveraged Loan Index
CDX. IG – Investment grade default swap index
CDX.HY – High Yield default swap index
Commodities
Bloomberg Commodity Index
S & P GSCI Index
Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index
Gold
Oil – WTI
Oil – Brent
Copper
We may not represent all of these outright, but this list provides the primary ones we should consider representing, as individuals, including having some representative examples of the values of at least some of them at some point in time so that people using the ontology can understand how to use the ontology to manage this sort of information. The goal is to reference the definitive source of the information so that someone can automate populating it as needed for their internal purposes.
Also sent John and Jeff the current draft credit events ontology (general) to review since our credit indices ontology references it. Some that are under consideration for ACTUS include:
1. Default
2. First to Default
3. Downgrade
4. Fall in price
5. Bankruptcy
6. Insolvency
7. Restructuring
8. Obligation Acceleration
9. Repudiation
10. Moratorium
We have most of these, but not all of them, so we need to review the ontology and revise it again accordingly, at which point it may be good enough to release once we have some restrictions that are relevant to distinguish them from one another.
Definition of first to default:
For example, a variant of the credit default swap is the “first-to-default” put. In this case, assume a Bank holds a portfolio of four high yield loans rated B, each one with a nominal value of $100 million, a maturity of five years and an annual coupon of Libor plus 200 bp. The loans are chosen such that default correlations are very small, i.e., such that there is a very low ex-ante probability that more than one loan will default over the time until the expiration of the put, say two years. A first-to-default put gives the Bank the opportunity to reduce its credit risk exposure, by being compensated in case one of the loans in the pool of four loans defaults at any time during the two-year period. If more than one loan defaults during this period, the Bank is only compensated for the first loan that defaulted.
We also need to consider a cross-default provision, which means if an organization has, for example, 6 different bonds out there, and defaults on one of them, then that is considered to be a default on all of them - see first to default, above.
Generic downgrade is missing - distressed ratings downgrade should be a subclass of that. If you are downgraded below a certain level then there may be consequences, such as a distressed ratings downgrade, more of a trigger. In order to be an event you have to pass a certain threshold. Same for fall in price.