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Application of Principal Component Analysis in Chinese Sovereign Bond Market and Principal Component-Based Fixed Income Immunization

Statistical Finance 2019-11-19 v1

Abstract

This paper analyses the Chinese Sovereign bond yield to find out the principal factors affecting the term structure of interest rate changes. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on our data consisting of the Chinese Sovereign bond from January 2002 till May 2018 with the different yield to maturity. Then we will discuss the multi-factor immunization model (method on hedging market risk) on a bond portfolio.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07288,
  title  = {Application of Principal Component Analysis in Chinese Sovereign Bond Market and Principal Component-Based Fixed Income Immunization},
  author = {Lim Tze Yee and Tony She and Kezia Irene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07288},
  year   = {2019}
}