Fundamental Financial Math
What you'll learn
- The relationship between price and yield on fixed income securities
- What are the interest rate and pricing conventions for fixed income instruments
- How to explain different day count and compounding conventions used in fixed income securities
- The dramatic difference between yield to maturity and realized rate of return
- How to determine the price of both coupon bearing and zero coupon bonds
- Financial math applications as it is used in finance, banking, securities and insurance markets and jobs
Requirements
- A financial calculator is recommended to get the most out of this course.
- Knowledge of the English language.
Description
This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a wide variety of applications - calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed.
This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections:
- Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money
- Debt Security Pricing
- Bond Yields and Rates of Return
The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor's presentation are included to help participants follow along.
Who this course is for:
- All levels of participants are encouraged to take this course.
Course content
- Preview10:38
- 10:32Interest Rates and Rates of Return
- 09:51Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money Part 1
- 10:43Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money Part 2
- 10:58Compound Interest
- 10:31Time Value of Money and Bond Pricing
Instructor
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