medium · FRM Part 1 Financial Markets and Products
In a 'Dollar Roll' transaction, the investor:
- Exchanges a fixed-rate interest rate swap for a floating-rate swap to hedge FX currency exposure.
- Sells a Mortgage-Backed Security for near-term settlement and simultaneously buys it back for a later date.
- Converts an existing callable corporate bond into a putable bond in order to eliminate its negative convexity.
- Reinvests all periodic bond coupon payments into a diversified equity index fund to improve its Sharpe ratio measure.
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