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FNB 147 - Fixed Income Management
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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FNB 147 | 04 November 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 02 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 20 January 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 17 February 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 17 March 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 14 April 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 12 May 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 16 June 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 07 July 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 04 August 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 29 September 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 27 October 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 24 November 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
FNB 147 | 22 December 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
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Course Description
The Fixed Income Portfolio Management and Construction class introduces the tools and techniques for the management of fixed income portfolios, applying those techniques first to analysing portfolios of real bonds and then to construction and management of portfolios.
Course Objectives
- Understand the technicalities of analysing fixed income portfolios
- Explain the drivers of performance of fixed income portfolios and how they affect investment outcomes
- Express views on future interest rates and credit spreads by taking positions in fixed income instruments
- Apply intuition to levels of tracking error utilised by active risk positioning
- Explain how single name credit is aggregated into aggregate risk distributions for fixed income portfolios
- Understand the principles of portfolio construction vs benchmarks and vs liability benchmarks
- Interpret and explain performance attribution for fixed income portfolios
- Use derivatives in portfolio construction – futures, swaps, swaptions, inflation swaps, single name and index CDS
- Explain application of ESG factors in fixed income portfolio construction
Who Should Attend?
- Junior PMs
- Desk Assistants
- Investment Specialists
- Product Managers
- Sales Teams
- Researchers
- Economists
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Fixed income investment concepts
- Potential benefits of fixed income
- Risks associated with fixed income
- Risk and return on interest rates
- Carry as a driver of performance
Day 2
- Bond markets
- Bond pricing fundamentals
- Practical bond pricing
- Bond risk metrics
- Risk and return on credit spreads
Day 3
- Fixed income portfolios – exposure analysis
- Fixed income portfolios – volatility and tracking error
- Portfolio construction exercise
- Credit risk distributions, aggregation
- Credit portfolio
- Techniques in portfolio construction
Day 4
- Tools for controlling rate exposure
- Tools for controlling spread exposures
- Tools for controlling currency exposure
- Managing duration for liability matching
- Performance measurement and attribution for Fixed Income
Day 5
- Ex-post performance & information ratios
- Yield curves
- Trading the yield curve with cash market securities
- Interest rate derivatives