Data Analytics for Corporate Debt Markets: Using Data for Investing, Trading, Capital Markets, and Portfolio Management

5. Basic Tools

Introduction

Most of the tools and techniques that are currently being used for data analytics can be run using Microsoft Excel and similar programs. You will see that most of the widely used techniques in corporate data analysis at this time are fairly simple, though more complex methods have been creeping in. The math and the terminology used in corporate debt analysis can seem a bit daunting if you are not familiar with it, but the actual formulas and calculations are not nearly as important as understanding how to read the output of these calculations and what this output is, and is not, showing you.

There are programs and systems that run many of the bond calculations and can manage a large number of positions that also ...