Introduction to Fixed Income Management

Interest Rate Products and Instruments
  • Treasuries and private issues
  • Nominal and floating-rate coupons
  • MBSs & ABSs
  • Swaps, futures and options on interest rates
Bond Risk and Valuation
  • Valuation, Yield to maturity and zero-coupon rates
  • Modified duration and convexity
  • Shift/twist/butterfly model
  • Liquidity premium
  • Practical workshop
  • Bond pricing and risk analysis
Economic Analysis and Monetary Policy
  • Trade balance
  • Business cycle
  • Budgetary policy
  • Monetary policy
  • Practical Workshop
  • Influence of the business cycle on markets
Yield Curve Analysis
  • Construct a spot yield curve
  • Construct a forward yield curve
  • Construct the implied inflation curve
  • Analyze investors’ preferred habitats
  • Practical workshop
  • Analyse a yield curve and apply it to swap pricing
Fixed Income Portfolio management
  • Bond indices
  • Investment processes and forms of organization
  • Investor’s evolving demand
  • Fixed income performance analysis
  • Practical workshop
  • Develop an asset allocation based on a given scenario

  • Value a bond and analyse its inherent risk
  • Analyse the effects of economic information on interest rate markets
  • Understand investor demand
  • Develop an investment strategy based on given scenarios
  • Exhaustive presentation of the techniques and methods of bond management
  • Practical analytical exercises on simple and complex instruments
  • Analyse risk factors and assimilate information in order to develop an adequate investment strategy
  • Delivered by a seasoned professional capable of imparting the tools needed to perform an analysis within an operational context and develop delegates’ overall comprehension and command of the subject
  • Bond Managers
  • Credit Analysts
  • Institutional Investors
  • Financial Consultants
  • Economists
  • Client Relationship Managers
  • Investment Managers
  • Company treasurers
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