
Fixed Income Mathematics
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Fixed Income Mathematics is an easy-to-understand introduction to the mathematics of common fixed income instruments. This book offers explanations, exercises, and examples without demanding sophisticated mathematics from the reader. Not only does the author use his business and teaching experience to highlight the fundamentals of investment and management decision-making, but he also offers questions and exercises that suggest the applicability of fixed income mathematics. Written for the reader with a general mathematics background, this self-teaching book is suffused with examples that also make it a handy reference guide. It should serve as a gateway to financial mathematics and to increased competence in business analysis. International comparisons are used to illustrate how interest is compounded. This text will be a valuable resource for professional insurance and other actuarials who invest in bonds and who are concerned with inflation, asset-liability management, the time value of money, interest rates, rates of return, risk, and investment income. It will also appeal to MBA students and anyone seeking a general introduction or overview of the subject.
Key Features
* An easy-to-understand introduction to the mathematics of common fixed income instruments
* Offers students explanations, exercises, and examples without demanding sophisticated mathematics
* Uses international comparisons to illustrate how interest is compounded
* Offers students explanations, exercises, and examples without demanding sophisticated mathematics
* Uses international comparisons to illustrate how interest is compounded
Readership
Professional Insurance and other actuarials who invest in bonds and who are concerned with inflation, asset-liability management, the time value of money, interest rates, rates of return, risk, and investment income; people seeking a general introduction or overview of the subject and MBA students.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Interest
Compound Interest
Present Value]
Annuities Certain
Bond Price Calculation
Future Value of Annuity
Accrued Interest
Discount Securities
Calculations for Other Securities
Quotations
Types of Yields
Sources of Return
Volatility and Its Measures
Duration
Convexity
Calculus Derivation
Probability Applications
Term Structure of Interest Rates
Uncertain and Variable Cash Flows
Mortgage Backed Securities
Futures
Options
Bibliography
Product details
- No. of pages: 366
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2003
- Published: May 16, 2003
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080506555
About the Author
Robert Zipf
Robert Zipf has more than 30 years experience in the financial field, with such companies as John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, IBM, Merrill Lynch, and AMBAC Indemnity Corporation. For many years, he has led seminars in municipal bonds for entry level professionals, and since 1993 has led seminars on municipal bonds and fixed income mathematics at The FT New York Institute of Finance, now FT Knowledge Financial Learning. Mr. Zipf has written two books, How Municipal Bonds Work, and How the Bond Market Works, Third Edition, and has published articles in several municipal bond related publications. He is a member of The Municipal Bond Club of New York, the American Economic Association, and The Municipal Forum of New York, where he also served as President.
Affiliations and Expertise
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.