Foundations of Fixed Income Course

 Location: Available Globally

This covers almost all the aspects of fixed income. The course will start from the basic building blocks of fixed income and will progress and cover highly advanced topics within the subject.

The course is suitable for a wide array of professionals. Both beginners and advanced professionals will benefit from the course due to its comprehensive nature and the intimate study environment where delegates will be able to ask questions and will get answers accompanied with real life examples.

This course covers the key topics of fixed income in an easy to understand and intuitive manner. The course’s trainer will use real-life examples to bring sense into the concepts and terminology. The course will first go through the basic building blocks of the business and will progress to cover highly sophisticated topics within the subject

What you learn:

This two-day course provides its delegates’ with practical insight to the foundations of fixed income. First, you will gain understanding of how fixed income fits in the financial world. In addition to that you will learn how these instruments are structured and how they behave and by which factors they are affected. This course will give you the ability to analyse and discuss fixed income instrument with confidence.

Size of class:

• Small and intimate study group for a relaxed study environment
• Maximum ten delegates
• Interactive course
• Questions are welcomed

Course categories:Debt / Fixed Income Courses, Credit Courses, Credit Inhouse, Debt / Fixed Income Inhouse

COVERED TOPICS

INTRODUCTION TO FIXED INCOME SECURITIES

• Money market securities
• Bond types, issuers and investors
• Discounting
• Bond pricing
• Index-linked bonds
• Corporate bonds

BOND RETURNS & BOND PRICE VOLATILITY

• Overview
• Annuities
• Calculating bond yields
• Bond returns
• Bond risk parameters

THE TERM STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES

• Overview
• The yield curve
• The shape of the yield curve
• Creating the yield curve
• Yield curve strategy

SOURCE OF THE BOND YIELDS

• Overview
• The neutral policy rate
• The risk premium on government bonds
• The credit risk premium
• Summary

DISCUSSION AND Q&A SESSION

ACTIVE BOND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

• Background
• Growth & inflation
• Policy rates
• Valuations
• Domestic & International comparison
• Demand and supply
• Yield curve analysis
• Portfolio actions/strategy

INTEREST RATE DERIVATIVES & SWAPS

• Overview
• The interest rate swap
• Swap rates
• Swaps & funds management

MORE COMPLICATED FIXED INCOME SECURITIES 

• Option basics
• Bonds with embedded options
• Putable,
• Callable
• Convertible bonds

CREDIT DERIVATIVES

• Overview
• Credit default swaps
• Credit default swap indices
• Mortgate backed securities (MBSs)
• , Collateralized mortgae obligations (CMOs)
• Asset backed securities, (ABSs)
• Collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)

DISCUSSION AND Q&A SESSION

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1,995.00

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Price: 1,995.00 GBP
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