Fixed Income Valuation And Analysis, Cfa L2

An easy guide to interest rate dynamics, bond valuation and credit analysis

What you'll learn

Understand Fixed income topic as contained in the official CFA Level 2 curriculum

Prepare better for 10-20 % of the CFA Level 2 course

Get a good understanding of this complex topic

Requirements

Access to a computer with internet connection

A calculator, ideally a financial calculator

Possession of CFA curriculum course ware will be ideal

Description

This course covers the curriculum of Fixed Income as contained in the CFA Level 1 curriculum. It is split into two Study sessions containing 4 readings.
As this is a very complex and technical topic, at the same time being one of the most important topics for CFA, I have simplified it for ease of understanding of the students.
The course contains approximately 4 hours of video lectures, split in short lectures to make it convenient for students, supporting reading material and topic based tests to ensure that taught topics are well understood by the students.
The first study session on "Valuation Concepts" covers essential knowledge and skills needed for the valuation of
fixed income investments. It begins with a discussion of the term structure of interest
rates and interest rate dynamics. The following reading addresses arbitrage-free valuation
of fixed-income securities. The study session concludes with an introduction to the
valuation and analysis of bonds with embedded options.
The second Study Session "Topics in Fixed Income Analysis" consists of a discussion of credit analysis and how credit standards
affect liquidity.
Students taking CFA Level 2 exam must take this course for understanding this complex topic. I would also recommend those students enrolled in CFA Level 3 to take this course who struggled with the basic concepts of fixed income in Level 1 and 2 so that their foundation improves for Fixed Income portfolio management in Level 3.
This course is also recommended for anyone in the investment field wanting to transition into the fixed income domain.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: The Term Structure and Interest Rate Dynamics

Lecture 2 Part 1 of Reading 43_The Term Structure and Interest Rate Dynamics

Lecture 3 Part 2 of Reading 43_The Term Structure and Interest Rate Dynamics

Lecture 4 Part 3 of Reading 43_The Term Structure and Interest Rate Dynamics

Section 3: The Arbitrage-Free Valuation Framework

Lecture 5 Part 1 of Reading 44_The Arbitrage-Free Valuation Framework

Lecture 6 Part 2 of Reading 44_The Arbitrage-Free Valuation Framework

Section 4: Valuation and Analysis: Bonds with Embedded Options

Lecture 7 Part 1 of Reading 45_ valuation and Analysis: Bonds with Embedded Options

Lecture 8 Part 2 of Reading 45_ valuation and Analysis: Bonds with Embedded Options

Lecture 9 Part 3 of Reading 45_ valuation and Analysis: Bonds with Embedded Options

Section 5: Credit Analysis Models

Lecture 10 Part 1 of Reading 46_Credit Analysis Models

Lecture 11 Part 2 of Reading 46_Credit Analysis Models

Lecture 12 Bonus Lecture: Coupon codes and Access to free courses

This is meant for all the candidates appearing for CFA L2 exam but do not have the time required to put in for the preparation and therefore would like to take a course to cut their preparation time to one third.,Anyone who is starting their career in the field of finance or getting into managing their own investments but requires an understanding of fixed income instruments