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Course Description
The world’s bond market has a value of around 120 trillion dollars; it plays a key role in helping both governments and businesses raise capital and is an essential part of most investment portfolios. In this course, you’ll gain the essential skills needed to work in the financial, insurance, and accounting industries, including understanding and analyzing markets. Through hands-on activities, you’ll discover how bonds work, how to price them, and how to assess some of their risks using numpy and numpy-financial packages.
Prerequisites
Curriculum
Course outline
1
Time Value of Money
In this chapter, you’ll cover simple and compound interest, compounding frequencies, future value as well as commonly used financial functions in the NumPy-financial package.
- Simple interest & compound interest50 XP
- Calculating simple interest100 XP
- Calculating compound interest100 XP
- Future value & compounding frequencies50 XP
- Calculating future value100 XP
- Calculating compounding frequencies100 XP
- More financial functions50 XP
- Calculating the number of periods100 XP
- Calculating the payment amount100 XP
- Calculating the required interest rate100 XP
- Solving real-world problems100 XP
2
Bond Prices & Yields
Let’s get fiscal. You’ll discover how to find the price of both zero-coupon and coupon-paying bonds, as well as examining the relationship between bond prices and bond yields.
3
Duration
Now it’s time for you to explore interest rate risk via the concept of duration, the factors affecting duration, and how to use duration to predict the price changes of a bond or hedge bond portfolios.
4
Convexity
In the final chapter, you’ll be introduced to convexity. You’ll see how it helps address the weaknesses inherent in duration, examine the factors affecting convexity, and use both duration and convexity together to better predict bond prices.
Bond Valuation and Analysis in Python
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