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''Risk management''
A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.
A derivative which hedges an exposure to a variable market rate or market price by effectively fixing a hedged market price or rate for it.


Examples include forward contracts, futures contracts, FRAs and swaps.
A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).


Contrasted with insurance-type instruments, such as an options.
== See also ==
* [[Frequency distribution]]
* [[Leptokurtosis]]
* [[Lognormal frequency distribution]]
* [[Mean reversion]]
* [[Normal distribution]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Tail]]
* [[Trend analysis]]
* [[Volatility smile]]


== See also ==
* [[Derivative instrument]]
* [[Fixing]]
* [[Forward contract]]
* [[Forward rate agreement]]
* [[Futures contract]]
* [[Insurance]]
* [[Opportunity loss]]
* [[Option]]
* [[Swap]]

Revision as of 14:19, 23 October 2012

A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.

A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).

See also