What you'll learn:
- Understand the elements that define and characterise fixed-income securities
- Know what to look out for when investing in a bond
- Understand the legal, regulatory and tax framework bonds operate under
- Know the various coupon payment types
- Have an overview of global fixed income markets
- Understand how bonds are issued in primary markets, and traded in secondary markets.
- Examine government, corporate and structured finance bond market sectors.
- Make basic bond valuations
- Calculate and quote bond prices and yields
- Understand what is yield spread.
- Understand what is securitisation, and its benefits
- Learn what is tranching, and the difference between credit tranching and time tranching
- Understand how mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are structured
- Learn what is a CDO
- Understand and calculate bond duration (Macaulay, modified, approximate modified, effective and key-rate durations)
- Make convexity adjustments to calculate change in price of a bond when its yield changes
- Understand credit ratings and role of credit ratings agencies
- Analyse the credit risk of a company
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