Fixed Income Securities - Bond Valuation Basics

Learn the Term Structure concepts and understand the calculation of present and future value in bond valuation

What you'll learn
Learn Future Value of an investment and compounding, single-period, multiple-period, FV equation, compounding more than once a year etc.
Learn Present Value and discounting, single-period, multiple-period, Present Value equation
Learn Excel formula for Future Value, Present Value
Learn Term Structure concepts, Yield, Time to Maturity, Yield to Maturity or promised yield etc.
Learn Term Structure of Interest Rates when the interest rate is constant over all future periods
Learn Term Structure of Interest Rates when the interest rates vary through time
Learn Graphing the Term Structure, Yield curve
Requirements
Basic Knowledge of Foreign Exchange Market
Passion to Learn and apply fixed income trading concepts
Passion to learn about Insurance concepts
Description
Fixed Income (Bond) valuation and analysis is a strategy or process which is often used by the government or companies to determine the correct market value of the instrument. Through these tutorials we are understanding the calculation of present and future value in bond valuation and Term Structure concepts. The training will include the following;

1. Basics: The fundamentals

(a) FV of an investment and compounding, single-period, multiple-period, FV equation, compounding more than once a year.

(b) PV and discounting, single-period, multiple-period, PV equation

© Excel formulae for FV, PV

2. Introduction to Term Structure concepts:

(a) Yield, Time to Maturity, Yield to Maturity or promised yield

(b) Term Structure of Interest Rates when the interest rate is constant over all future periods

© Term Structure of Interest Rates when the interest rates vary through time

(d) Graphing the Term Structure, Yield curve

Who this course is for:
Finance Students
Professionals involved in fixed income trading
Anyone interested in learning about Fixed income trading