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Fixed income derivatives

What is covered?

A review of the key types of fixed income derivatives, including futures, swaps and options.  The course explores government bond futures, interest rate swaps, options, swaptions and inflation swaps.

Who will benefit?

Participants with limited knowledge of fixed income derivatives looking to explore this section of the markets in more depth.

Course content

Derivative recap
Government bond futures

• Cheapest to deliver
• Implied repo rate

Interest rate swaps

• Vanilla swaps
• Accreting, amortising and roller coaster swaps
• Forward start swaps

Swap pricing

• Simple methods – bond method
• Forward rate method

Options

• Calls and puts
• European, American and Bermudan
• Time value and intrinsic value

Option Greeks

• Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho

Swaptions

• Applications

Inflation swaps

• Applications