Fixed Income Analysis
for the Global Financial Market

Contents

Short-Term Money Market Instruments

1 Background and Terminology

2 Interest, Discount, and Compounded Yield

3 The Exponential Notation

4 Spot and Forward Yields: FRAs, Repos, and Futures

5 Foreign-Exchange Transactions

Long-Term Securities, Futures, and Swaps

6 Zero-Coupon Bonds

7 Fixed-Interest Coupon Bonds

8 Coupon Bonds: Advanced Topics

9 Floating-Rate Securities

10 Interest-Rate and Currency Swaps

11 Futures on Bonds and Notes

Options

12 An Introduction to Options

13 Fixed-Income Options, Bonds with Option-like Features

14 Basic Statistical Tools

15 Stochastic Models

16 Binomial Option Pricing: An Introduction

17 Extending the Binomial Model

18 The Black-Scholes and Other Option-Pricing Models

19 Modeling the Yield Curve

There are many introductory books covering fixed income mathematics and financial engineering. They cover essentially the same topics: discounting, bond pricing, duration, convexity, derivatives and pricing. Questa's book is one of the best. I like it because it is practical, so you learn how to use the mathematics in the real world. While many books avoid details such as day counts, value dates, accrued interest or pricing conventions, Questa jumps right in and tells you what you need to know. I also like the book because it integrates foreign exchange seamlessly into the discussion.

There are 19 chapters in three parts:

Short-term money market instruments

Long-term securities, futures and swaps

Options

There is excellent material on callable bonds and option adjusted spreads. Several chapters provide a basic introduction to fixed income option pricing. Overall, this is an excellent book.

For related books, see sections:

Markets - Fixed Income

Markets - Money Market, FX

Markets - Derivatives

Financial Engineering - Basic Theory

Financial Engineering - Fixed Income

 

 

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