Fixed Income Video Lectures, Readings 60 to 65, Level 1 Dec 2010
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Fixed Income Lecture 1
Topics: Coupons; Par Value; Maturity; Yield to Maturity; and Covenants (Reading 60)
Fixed Income Lecture 2
Topics: Various Kinds of Bonds; and Sinking Fund Provisions (Reading 60)
Fixed Income Lecture 3
Topics: Embedded Options; Call Money; and Repo Rates (Reading 60)
Fixed Income Lecture 4
Topics: Bond Pricing (Reading 64, videos for Readings 61-63 below)
Fixed Income Lecture 5
Topics: Bond Pricing continued (Reading 64, videos for Readings 61-63 below)
Fixed Income Lecture 6
Topics: Bond Pricing continued (Reading 64, videos for Readings 61-63 below)
Fixed Income Lecture 7
Topics: Bond Risks: Interest Rate Risk; Yield Curve Risk; Prepayment Risk; Reinvestment Risk; Default Risk; Credit Risk; Liquidity Risk; Volatility Risk; Inflation Risk; Currency Risk; and Event Risk (Reading 61)
Fixed Income Lecture 8
Topics: Domestic Market Bonds: Treasuries; Munis; Corporates; and Mortgage Backed Securities MBS (Reading 62)
Fixed Income Lecture 9
Topics: Domestic Market Securities: MBS continued; Medium Term Notes MTNs; Special Purpose Vehicles SPVs; Credit Enhancement; CBOs and CDOs; Primary and Secondary Markets; and Bankruptcy Process (Reading 62)
Fixed Income Lecture 10
Topics: Term Structure of Interest Rates; and Expectations Hypothesis (Reading 63)
Fixed Income Lecture 11
Topics: Theories of the Term Structure continued (Liquidity Preference and Market Segmentation); and Yield Spreads (Reading 63)
Fixed Income Lecture 12
Topics: LIBOR; and After-tax Yields (Reading 63); Clean and Dirty Prices; Zero Coupons; and Spot Rates (Reading 64)
Fixed Income Lecture 13
Topics: Bootstrapping and Forward Rates: Getting Spot Rates from Bond Prices (Reading 65)
Fixed Income Lecture 14
Topics: Bootstrapping continued; Forward Rates (Reading 65)
Fixed Income Lecture 15
Topics: Forward Rates from Spot Rates; Spot Rates from Forward Rates (Reading 65)
Fixed Income Lecture 16
Topics: Zero Volatility Spreads (Reading 65)
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