Asset Management

Risk Management for Fixed Income

Portfolios

Strategic Risk Management for Credit Suisse Private Banking &

Wealth Management Products (SRM PB & WM)
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1 SRM PB & WM Products Risk Management

CRO SRM PB & WM Products Operational Risk

Alternative Investment Strategy Counterparty Risk Analytics and Hedging-Griffo

Investments and Research Infrastructure Risk
Capital Management
Americas Core Investments PB Americas WMS STS Risk Oversight Credit Suisse AM
Products COO Brazil

SRM Private Banking & Wealth Management Products Risk Management is part of the global Credit Suisse CRO
organization and has an independent team of over 40 risk professionals globally.
Main focus areas:
 Investment risk management (market, credit, liquidity)
 Counterparty/credit risk management
 Risk capital management and risk analytics infrastructure
 Operational risk management

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2 Investment Risk Overview (Focus Areas)

Our risk and quantitative analysis program is designed to focus on:

 Exposure and risk analysis (tracking error and value at risk)
 Stress testing, scenario and sensitivity analysis
 Concentration and liquidity analysis
 Performance analysis
 Risk and performance attribution and contribution analysis

Various third-party and proprietary risk systems independent from portfolio management used in support of our risk
program (e.g. RiskMetrics, BarraOne)

Transparency: Top-down formal reviews conducted with executives through line management

Rigorous analysis: Bottom-up portfolio risks independently quantified and formally reviewed with each portfolio team on an
ongoing basis

Credit Suisse’s robust, established risk platform can accommodate and effectively administer the risk management needs,
parameters and requirements of all our clients.

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3 Exposure and Risk Analysis

The focus is on ensuring that risks inherent in the portfolios are transparent and communicated to portfolio managers
and senior management.

Tools used to analyze portfolio risks include:

 Tracking error analysis with decomposition
 Exposure analysis vis-à-vis benchmark exposures
 Sensitivity analysis to relevant risk factors
 Sector and strategy exposures

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4 Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis

As part of our philosophy, we do not rely solely on value at risk (VaR) analytics, but incorporate the use of stress testing on
our portfolios.

The focus is on identifying events that may adversely affect our portfolios and that are not captured by VaR measures.

Regular monthly risk reporting incorporates two types of stress analytics:

 Scenario analysis
 Historical stress testing

Scenario analysis involves the stressing of one or a group of core risk factors in the portfolio by specific stress amounts.
The predictive nature of these types of stress tests means that correlations among all risk factors in the portfolio (not
limited to the stressed risk factor) are taken into account in the analysis.

Within the historical stress testing methodology, all risk factors in the portfolio are identified and any historical changes
for each of those risk factors are applied in the revaluation of the portfolio. Historical correlations are taken into account as
history is repeated.

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5 Concentration and Liquidity Analysis

Concentration analysis performed across:

 Instrument, asset class, issuer, sector, strategy, rating, country, etc.

An important pillar of our risk analysis is related to liquidity analysis.

Forecasting the liquidity profile of our portfolios is one of the tools in our risk management toolbox that is deployed on a
monthly basis.

Using a proprietary methodology developed inhouse, we attempt to model the liquidity profile of our portfolios using some
directly observable attributes of traded instruments in the portfolio.

The focus is on identifying the instruments within a portfolio as well as the percentage of a portfolio likely to be most
affected by a liquidity event.

The methodology recognizes concentration risks, and security concentrations are taken into account because the
methodology penalizes elevated concentrations in a particular security.

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6 Counterparty and Credit Risk Management

Dedicated resources to monitor and mitigate counterparty risk. The focus is on cash deposits and over-the-counter (OTC)
counterparty risk.

Functions include:
 Development and maintenance of cash DVP trading and OTC counterparty risk policies
 Maintenance of preapproval list/ongoing credit monitoring
 Credit approvals on new counterparties; ISDA negotiations when required
 Brokers analyze liquidity, solvency and cash flows
 Periodic review of overall exposure, both counterparty and issuer

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7 Operational Risk

Supervisory Framework – Ensure that a consistent control framework for supervision is implemented across the division;
monitor issues/status through various tools and governance committees

Error Monitoring and Reporting – Use of a dedicated system to record, escalate errors and/or control incidents; work
with the business and support factions on lessons learned

Risk Control Self-Assessments – Support for and verification of management self-assessments of the control
environment

Key Risk Indicators – Define KRIs for each business and review trends; periodically report to management

Issue Tracking and Verification – Ensure that issues raised by regulators, internal audits or other reviews are tracked,
presented to management and verified before closing

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8 How Can We Compute Risk?

Ex-Post Risk Analysis

 The realized VaR, i.e. based on changes in the NAV of the portfolio
 Backward-looking
 An important change in the investment strategy will only progressively be reflected in the risk figures
 No risk assessment can be made for a portfolio that was recently launched

Ex-Ante Risk Analysis

 When a model is used to predict the risk figures (see next slide for an illustration)
 Forward-looking
 An important change in the portfolio investment style will be reflected immediately

Tracking Error (TE)

 The volatility of the relative returns (portfolio returns – benchmark returns)
 Measures how closely a portfolio follows its benchmark
 Typical annualized TE figures are:
– 1–20 basis points for index products (with some exceptions, like for small-cap or emerging-market funds)
– 20–100 basis points for actively managed fixed-income products
– 0.5%–5.0% for active equity portfolios

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9 Putting Current Level of Risk into Perspective

In % VIX Index In %
JPM Global FX Volatility Index
80 4.0
Move Index (r.h.s.)
70 3.5

60 3.0

50 2.5

40 2.0

30 1.5

20 1.0

10 0.5

0 0.0
1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013

VIX index: Implied volatility of S&P 500 index options (by CBOE)
Move index: Implied volatility index for the US Treasury market (by Merrill Lynch)
Source: Bloomberg
As of July 2014
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10 Absolute VaR and TE Have Been Decreasing

Aggregate statistics across all FI funds, excluding funds without a benchmark VaR
2.0% 14%

1.5% 12%

1.0% 10%

0.5% 8%

0.0% 6%

-0.5% 4%

-1.0% 2%
Jan 12 Apr 12 Jul 12 Okt 12 Jan 13 Apr 13 Jul 13 Okt 13 Jan 14 Apr 14
TE, excludes funds without bmk CS100 DV100 VaR 99% (r.h.s.)

Sources: RiskMetrics, Core and ISR Risk

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11 Risk Results from Yesterday’s Workshop

Risk figures are computed with RiskMetrics.

Defining the risk settings is at the discretion of the risk manager. Here, weekly returns over a one-year time horizon are
used to compute the ex-ante risk figures. No decay factor is applied.

Parametric estimation of risk (Monte Carlo is a possible alternative, which is particularly suitable for instruments having a fat
tail).

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12 Risk Reports
Explanation of Selected Risk Statistics (1/3)

Value at Risk (VaR) is a summary measure of downside risk.

It is the maximum loss over a target horizon in that there is a low, pre-specified probability that the actual loss will be larger.

A VaR figure comes with a confidence level and a time horizon:

 A one-week 95% VaR of 6% means that there is a 5% probability that the portfolio will decrease in value by more than
6% over the next five days.

Histogram
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Returns distribution based on the last 100 daily returns on the DAX Index
20

15
95% CVaR: Average loss if 95% VaR is exceeded: 2.2%
10
95% VaR: 5th worst loss: 1.74%
5

0
-3.5% -2.5% -1.5% -0.5% 0.5% 1.5% 2.5%

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13 Risk Reports
Explanation of Selected Risk Statistics (2/3)

CVaR: Conditional Value at Risk/expected shortfall:

The tail end of the distribution of loss is not taken into account with the VaR. CVaR gives the average of the worst-case
loss scenarios once the VaR is exceeded for a given confidence interval.

Duration:
 Macaulay Duration is the weighted average time until cash flows are received (in years), whereas modified duration
measures the price sensitivity to yield.
 Effective Duration takes into account that future cash flows can change due to interest-rate movements. This is not
the case for Modified Duration or Macaulay Duration; these duration determinants usually work fine for option-free
bonds, but are less adequate for option-embedded bonds, for which Effective Duration is better suited.

DV100: Change in the instrument/portfolio value in the event of a 100-basis-point parallel upward shift in the discount
curve.
CS100: Change in the instrument/portfolio value in the event of a 100-basis-point parallel upward shift in the spread
curve. Similar to DV100 for a corporate bond, though typically larger because the credit curve is steeper compared to a
government curve. For a government bond the CS100 will be zero.

Incremental VaR: Effect on risk in the event of a small change in position weighting.

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14 Risk Reports
Explanation of Selected Risk Statistics (3/3)

Credit Suisse’s 3-Month/12-Month View: Interest-rate forecast stress tests, which are based on the interest-rate views
of Credit Suisse’s investment strategy department

Credit Suisse’s Strategy Interest-Rate Forecast

Spot Horizon Spot Horizon

19.08. 3M 12M 19.08. 3M 12M
CHF 3M 0.01% 0.10% 0.10% GBP 3M 0.55% 0.60% 0.90%
2Y 0.01% 0.05% 0.10% 2Y 0.84% 1.00% 1.70%
5Y 0.11% 0.30% 0.60% 5Y 1.99% 2.20% 2.80%
10Y 0.61% 0.90% 1.20% 10Y 2.60% 3.00% 3.50%
EUR 3M 0.20% 0.20% 0.20% USD 3M 0.23% 0.30% 0.60%
2Y 0.02% 0.20% 0.40% 2Y 0.45% 0.70% 1.30%
5Y 0.31% 0.70% 1.10% 5Y 1.64% 1.80% 2.40%
10Y 1.20% 1.50% 1.80% 10Y 2.52% 2.90% 3.30%

Spot rates as of 14.07.2014, rate forecast from July 2014.

As mentioned before, we usually use a look period of one year for computing the different risk figures. In the risk reports
we also include a VaR with a look-back period of six years (hence including the market turmoil of 2008–2009).

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15 Risk Reports

For each portfolio we show:

 Key risk figures on the first page

 The largest contributors to the tracking error by issuer on the second page

 The largest contributors to the tracking error by security on the third page

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Contacts

Charles Traband
Investment Risk Manager
Credit Suisse

Zurich: +41 44 332 10 74

charles.traband@credit-suisse.com

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Disclaimer

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