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Description
Gain practical financial skills you can apply today.
This on demand, CPA Ontario course will explain fixed income fundamentals and cover the key features of a bond such as par value, coupon, yield curves, and credit spreads.
Explore the basic products and players in fixed income markets through exercises using real market data and examples of the most common Bloomberg screens for bonds. Calculate the price of a bond and examine other fixed income topics such as clean prices, dirty prices, accrued interest, and day count. Explore bond risk measures including Macaulay duration, modified duration, dollar duration, and convexity, and calculate the price sensitivity to yield changes using these risk measures.
The wide range of practical exercises and real-life case studies will give you immediately actionable knowledge that you can directly apply on the job.
This course includes a quiz that you can attempt multiple times. To ensure that your understanding of the material is accurately assessed, the correct answers will not be shown after each attempt.
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the key concepts of bonds, the basic fixed income instrument.
- Explain who buys bonds, who issues bonds, and the bond market.
- Examine the concepts of yield, coupon, and day count.
- Discuss the yield curve, credit spreads, and what they represent.
- Measure the yield sensitivity of a bond by using duration and convexity.
Who Will Benefit
Anyone who would like to build up their understanding about capital markets. This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to begin a career in fixed income, equity, sales and trading, or other areas of finance with the fundamental knowledge of fixed income.
How to Access the Course
To access your course, visit the CPA Ontario Blackboard site and sign in using the same username and password used for the Registration Portal.
Important: Course access begins on the date of purchase and remains available for the Access Time specified for the course under Dates and Location. Please review the access time before purchasing. Note that it may take up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear in Blackboard.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal, and other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Andrew Loo has extensive experience in the investment banking industry including 16 years in the Capital Markets in Asia-Pacific as Director, Capital Markets, and Managing Director and Head of Distribution for Central Banks in Hong Kong. Andrew provides world-class financial markets education and bridges the gap between academia and real-world markets.