Realized Variable Leg

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Realized Variable Leg. Leg which relates to some statistical measure of performance of the underlying.

This is generally the floating leg of a statistical type of swap or a dividend swap. The other leg of these swaps is implied, and is simply the strike. Payment is netted up at maturity and so there is no stream of cashflows either way. Earlier notes: Typically these are defined for swaps where there is only one leg; payments are determined at maturity of the swap contract and may go either way. Payments are determined by comparison of the value of the statistical measure at maturity with the pre-defined strike value of that parameter.

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