Courses in a Masterclass in Bonds and Fixed Income - Online
Online United Kingdom
DURATION
5 Days
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
09 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 4,895
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
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Introduction
This immersive program navigates the intricate world of bonds and fixed-income markets, starting with fundamental principles of pricing and risk assessment. Participants explore hedging, trading strategies, and optimising portfolios in line with market perspectives. The course delves into the pivotal role of repo markets, and debt origination processes, and offers a hands-on case study for practical application.
Advancing to fixed income realms, it covers yield curves, cash flow evaluations, and pricing structured products. Participants gain expertise in swap pricing, valuation, and bond integration for informed trading decisions. The program concludes with a holistic view of fixed income within Financial Markets by exploring credit adjustments, currency swaps, CDSs, and risk management.
Learn How to
- Price different types of bonds
- Calculate different risk measures and apply hedges to an existing bond position
- Calculate the term structure of interest rates and explain the uses of YTM, zero and forward rates
- Value and price swaps, create asset swaps and use asset swaps for bond valuation
- Measure interest rate and credit risk, trade and hedge interest rate risk and learn how to integrate different interest rate products.
Curriculum
Day 1
- Introduction to the Bonds Markets
- Capital Adequacy Requirement for Banks
- Bond Mathematics
- Market Conventions and Conversions
- Bond Pricing
Day 2
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Hedging Using Duration
- Creating Spread Trades Using Duration
- Bond Portfolio Management
- Repo’s
- Uses of Repo’s
- Bond Origination
- The Debt Origination Process
Day 3
- Government Bond Strips
- Bond Pricing Revisited
- Term-structure of Interest Rates Part 1
- Credit Curves
- Introduction Swaps
- Types of Swaps
- Uses of Swaps
Day 4
- Asset-backed Securities
- Asset Swaps
- The Principal of Swap Pricing and Valuation
- Term-structure of Interest Rates Part 2
- Credit Curves (II)
- Measuring Corporate Bond Credit Risk and Benchmarking
Day 5
- Value Adjustments to Swaps Pricing
- Pricing Currency Swaps
- Pricing Credit Default Swaps
- Credit Risk Management: From CV
- A to VA
- Measures for Credit Portfolios
Case Studies and Practical Sessions
Some featured deals will be less than 24 hours old when you see them, emphasising how the markets work today.
Practical sessions include:
- Calculation Exercises
- New Issue of a Eurobond
- Constructing yield curves for bond markets
- Asset swap pricing