Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook / Bloomberg Professional (PDF)

Foreword. Preface. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO BONDS. 1 The Bond Instrument. The Time Value of Money. Bond Pricing and Yield: The Traditional Approach. Accrued Interest. 2 Bond Instruments and Interest Rate Risk. Duration, Modifi ed Duration, and Convexity. 3 Bond Pricing and Spot and Forward Rates. Zero-Coupon Bonds. Coupon Bonds. Bond Price in Continuous Time. Forward Rates. Term Structure Hypotheses. 4 Interest Rate Modeling. Basic Concepts. One-Factor Term-Structure Models. Further One-Factor Term-Structure Models. Two-Factor Interest Rate Models. Choosing a Term-Structure Model. 5 Fitting the Yield Curve. Non-Parametric Methods. Comparing Curves. Fitting the Term Structure of Interest Rates: The Practical Implementation of Cubic Spline Methodology. Cubic Spline Methodology. The Hypothesis. Practical Approach. A Look at Forward Rates. Conclusion. PART TWO: SELECTED CASH AND DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS. 6 Forwards and Futures Valuation. Forwards and Futures. Forward-Spot Parity. The Basis and Implied Repo Rate. 7 Swaps. Interest Rate Swaps. Generic Swap Valuation. Non-Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swaps. Interest Rate Swap Applications. 8 Options. Option Basics. Option Instruments. Option Pricing: Setting the Scene. Option Pricing. The Black-Scholes Option Model. Other Option Models. 9 Measuring Option Risk. Option Price Behavior. The Greeks. The Option Smile. Caps and Floors. 10 Credit Derivatives. Credit Risk. Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives. Credit Derivative Instruments. Investment Applications. Credit Derivatives and Relative Value Trading. Credit-Derivative Pricing. 11 The Analysis of Bonds with Embedded Options. 12 Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis. 13 Convertible Bonds. Basic Features. Advantages of Issuing and Holding Convertibles. Convertible Bond Valuation. Pricing Spreadsheet. 14 Inflation-Indexed Bonds. Basic Concepts. Index-Linked Bond Cash Flows and Yields. Analysis of Real Interest Rates. 15 Securitization and Asset-Backed Securities. The Concept of

Moorad Choudhry (Surrey, UK) is head of treasury at Europe Arab Bank plc in London. Previously, he was head of treasury at KBC Financial Products, and a vice president in Structured Finance Service at JPMorgan Chase Bank. Prior to that, he was a sterling proprietary trader at Hambros Bank Limited and gilt-edged market maker and money markets trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Ltd. Choudhry is visiting professor at the Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University and a visiting research fellow at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. He was educated at the University of Westminster and the University of Reading. He obtained his MBA from Henley Management School and his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. He has written several books on the credit markets.

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