December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
21h 40m
English
Fixed-income instruments involve payoffs that are, in general, known and “fixed.” They also have set maturity dates. Putting aside the credit quality of the instrument, fixed-income assets have relatively simple cash flows that depend on a known, small set of variables and, hence, risk factors. There are also well-established and quite accurate ways to calculate the relevant term structure. Finally, there are several liquid and efficient fixed-income derivatives markets such as swaps, forward rate agreements (FRAs), and futures, which simplify the replication and pricing problems existing in this sector.
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