Securities which obligate the borrower/issuer to make payments on a fixed schedule. Fixed income securities include sovereign, corporate and municipal bonds, corporate loans, and securitized lending (e.g., ABS). "Fixed" refers only to the schedule of obligatory payments, not the amount, and may ...
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How to reconstruct a discontinued economic time series such as the Fed's CP rate?
The old 3-Month Commercial Paper Rate (CP3M) on FRED was discontinued in 1997. I would like to reconstruct this series in a reasonable fashion, so I can use it to analyze more recent events.
I was ...
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Yield Curve Volatility
Let you have several issuers, and let each issuer have its yield curve built up with liquid plain vanilla fixed rate bonds.
Each yield curve has its slope and its curvature, and they obviously change ...
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What is an appropriate hedge ratio for hedging a credit instrument with equity of the same issuer?
Given a bond and a stock issued by the same issuer, what is the appropriate ratio of bond-to-stock one should hold in order to minimize the specific risk to that issuer? Equivalently, what is the ...
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Treasury Bond Yield Curves in R
Does anyone know if I can access interest rates series from the treasury using R? I tried yahoo! Finance and it doesn't seem to have this kind of information.
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CTD and bond futures
I am reading a chapter on bond futures in Fabozzi's book. It states that without CF (conversion factor) the CTD (cheapest to deliver) would be the bond with the longest maturity and highest coupon. ...
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Why might a manager consider using an interest-rate in which the notional principal amount declines over time?
Say swap would be used to convert the payments of its portfolio of fixed-rate residential mortgage loans into a floating payment. Why might a manager consider using an interest-rate in which the ...
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Annual Percentage Rate and Yield
I found references relative to US where the Nominal Annual Percentage Rate or simply APR is defined as the simple interest rate (i.e. proportional to time and without compounding).
Instead the ...
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How to hedge the fixed leg of a swap contract?
I happened to get this question for Fixed Income Swap contract. (let's assume it's it's not cross currency).
If the fixed leg is paying 10% interest rate in this contract, but in the market the ...
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T-note returns from T-note yields … derivation of Damodaran's formula
Damodaran's historical data on 10-year T-note returns (found here) uses the following formula to calculate the 1-period total return on a T-note ($R_1$) given the 10-year constant maturity ...
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Yield on Fixed income futures
I am trying to get a simplified model of the DV01 for the US 10YR Note futures but I cant figure out what the current yield is. When I back out the implied interest rate on the current TYM3 futures ...
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How does a covered bond characteristics compare to a mortgage security for credit enhancement?
I need help with understanding how does a covered bond characteristics compare to a mortgage security for credit enhancement?
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How to properly interpret accrued interest of bonds
Ever since I work in finance I was wondering what accrued interest (AI) are good for (see the wikipedia article for a short introduction). I think I have a clear picture in mind now and the usual ...
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Price difference between bond cash and futures
I used to trade German and US govt. bond futures and I am now having trouble understanding the price difference of these markets against the cash market.
For example, the 10 year german government ...
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Where to find introductory material on leveraged loans?
What are some good, preferably free, introductions to leveraged loans, also known as syndicated loans or bank loans? The introduction should describe the basic mechanics and very importantly provide ...
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Calculating pre-tax cost of debt
This is a simple problem but I'm not sure about one aspect of it.
A company has 15 year bonds outstanding, with a 5% annual coupon, a face value of \$1000, and a current market value of \$1100. ...
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Looking for FpML best practices
We want start using FpML within our organisation; where message will be sent using FpML.
What are best practices to do this ?
If anyone who have used Tools as well as; i want to use FpML for ...
