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Advanced Fixed Income Analytics

Contents

1. An Empirical Analysis of Yield Curve Dynamics

Fundamental Factors Driving the Evolution of the Yield Curve

Going Beyond the Fundamentals: Nuances of the Yield Curve

2. Term Structure Models: A Portfolio Manager's Guide

Setting the Scene

Basic Concepts of Interest Rate Option Models

Relative Merits of Different Term Structure Models

Option Models in Practice

3. Quantitative Approaches to Inflation-Indexed Bonds

Inflation-Indexed Bonds and Real Yields

Inflation-Indexed Bonds in a Nominal Portfolio

Advanced Analysis Approaches to Inflation-Indexed Bonds

4. Long Bond Pricing Paradoxes and Long-Term Yields

Analysis of the Convexity Bias

Theorems about Very Long-Term Interest Rates

A Very Long-Term Analysis of the Bond Market

5. Prepayment Analysis and Prepayment Model Risk

Prepayment Models: Goals, Construction, Fitting, Evaluation

Prepayment Model Risk

6. Measures of Non Yield Curve Risk and Risk/Return

Setting the Scene: The Concept of OAS

Advanced Risk Measures

Relative Value Analysis for Mortgages

Appendix: Default Risk and Default Spreads

7. Risk Measurement and Performance Attribution

Classifying Risk Measurement Tools

Interpreting the Results of Performance Attribution

Relating Different Frameworks for Performance Attribution

Wesley Phoa's book is both intellectually gratifying and highly practical. It focuses on several topics of interest to traders and portfolio managers in the US bond markets. These include: theories of yield curve dynamics, implementing yield curve models, option-adjusted spreads, valuation of inflation-indexed bonds, very long bonds, mortgage-backed securities, risk measurement and performance attribution.

 

All these topics should be familiar to seasoned bond market participants, so Phoa skips the preliminaries and grapples with each topic at an advanced level. You learn about spread-durations, tax effects, economists' forecasts vs. market implied forecasts, convexity biases, principal component analysis of spread risk and more. Theory is well supplemented with empirical results, and the down-to-earth style is applications oriented. Mathematics is kept to a minimum, but this doesn't detract from the quality of the presentation.

For related books, see sections:

Markets - Fixed Income

Financial Engineering - Fixed Income

Portfolio Management - Fixed Income

 

 

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