Overview
- This course starts with an overview of capital markets and key capital market participants and proceeds to tackle fixed income topics such as interest rates, treasury securities, bond fundamentals and financial math. More advanced concept such as bond pricing, holding period yield, duration and convexity are also covered.
- Capital markets overview
- Primary vs. secondary markets
- Capital markets participants
- Nominal vs. real interest rates
- US Treasury securities (bills, notes, bonds)
- Structure of fixed income securities
- Bond fundamentals
- Key terminology
- Bond prices vs. yields
- Coupon rate vs. current yield vs. yield-to-maturity
- Financial math
- Zero-coupon bonds
- Annuities
- Coupon bonds
- Price-yield relationship
- Bond pricing
- Modified IRR
- Holding period yield
- All-in-cost vs. yield-to-maturity
- Price value of basis point and yield value of 32nd
- Duration
- Convexity