The course is tailored for professionals in the capital and financial markets, including bond dealers, treasury staff of banks and investment companies, bond portfolio analysts and regulators, asset and fund managers as well as individual keen on investing in the capital markets.
The course will cover the following:-
- Introduction to fixed income instruments
- Introduction and classification of bond instruments
- An Overview of Bond Features and Bond Markets
- Value preposition of Bond as an instrument of raising Capital
- Structuring and Pricing of Bonds
- Bonds valuation
- Developing Bond Calculator; – practical demonstration and practice
- Trading and settlement of bonds in Kenya
- Creating and managing a bond Portfolio;
- Understanding Bond trading, Yield Curve, Yield curve analysis and portfolio application
- Emerging and International Trends of Bonds market
- A critical look at opportunities in the bond market
- Macroeconomic factors that affect bond markets among other practical discussions.
Course Features
- Lectures 21
- Quizzes 2
- Duration 10 - 11 hours
- Language English
- Students 267
- Assessments Self
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An Overview of Bonds market
This lesson gives the learner an intorduction to the bonds market and the history of bonds
- What is a bond?
- Background of Bonds
- Structure of Bond Markets
- Key Features Of Bonds & Key Term Definations
- Types of Bonds & Players in Bonds
- Basic features of a bond,the various coupon rate structures and the structure of floating rate securities
- Options
- Borrowing funds to purchase bonds
- Bond Price Risk- Bond Theorems
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BOND TRADING PROCESS AT THE NSE
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MANAGING A PORTFOLIO
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RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH FIXED INCOME
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