August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
10h 23m
English
This book is intended for somewhat experienced fixed income analysts, traders, and portfolio managers, so we assume the reader has more than a passing familiarity with the concepts of yield, duration, and convexity. However, we do come across some confusion concerning these concepts from time to time, so we’ll offer a few thoughts in this chapter, designed to help clarify potential misunderstandings.
A bond that pays a coupon is simply a portfolio of zero-coupon bonds, and the price of the coupon bond is the sum of the prices of the zero-coupon bonds.
However, the yield of a coupon bond generally can’t be expressed as ...
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