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The {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}} comes in handy if you are restriking your {{isdaprov|Transaction}}s periodically, as you are likely to be doing if you are providing [[synthetic prime brokerage]] — being as it basically is, an undated [[delta-one]] exposure to equities delivered through the glorious prism of equity derivatives. Your [[prime broker]] will not want to run indeterminate exposures to shares, even if they are collateralised daily, so restriking the shares periodically can zero out whatever the residual risk is in the paranoid eyes of your financial controllers. | The {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}} comes in handy if you are restriking your {{isdaprov|Transaction}}s periodically, as you are likely to be doing if you are providing [[synthetic prime brokerage]] — being as it basically is, an undated [[delta-one]] exposure to equities delivered through the glorious prism of equity derivatives. Your [[prime broker]] will not want to run indeterminate exposures to shares, even if they are collateralised daily, so restriking the shares periodically can zero out whatever the residual risk is in the paranoid eyes of your financial controllers. | ||
Now interim {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}}s — which are glorified estimates of the present value of an ongoing position — and the final {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}}, which is the price at which you definitively close out your position and go “off risk” — have rather different consequences. [[Tax attorney|US Tax attorney]]s, as obsessed as they are with avoiding the suggestion that a swap counterparty is controlling its [[broker]]’s hedge, will seek to avoid any suggestion that the ''final'', scheduled valuation arises from anything quite so mucky as the price at which the broker closes out its hedge. So expect references to [[VWAP]]. | |||
The same [[tax attorney]] will not be so bothered how you come up with your prices on other valuation dates, seeing as the counterparty is mot going on or off risk. | |||
In the [[synthetic prime brokerage]] world, where {{isdaprov|Transaction}}s are callable at will, that ''scheduled'' {{eqderivprov|Termination Date}} is a fairly arbitrary figure plucked out of the air at some point in the distant future, as much as anything else because “{{eqderivprov|Termination Date}}” is a mandatory field in the booking system. | |||
Curiously, [[tax attorney]]s are less exercised about the method by which a [[Broker]] values the transaction for an ''optional'' early termination, even though that is the usual method by which synthetic equity swaps | |||
===Bullet swaps=== | |||
Some times you will trade “[[bullet swap|bullet swaps]]” which do not have a {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}}. Being the tortured language of an ISDA drafting committee, there is no straightforward concept in the definitions of a swap which has no {{eqderivprov|Valuation Date}}s other than the {{eqderivprov|Termination Date}}, so expect wildly ungainly language in confirms to express a fairly simple idea. | |||