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Bonds and Strategies for Hedging Portfolios
Bonds and Strategies for Hedging Portfolios
Bonds and Hedging Strategies for Bond Portfolios
Budapest by night
Seminar room Margitziget

Bonds and Strategies for Hedging Portfolios

590,00 

Date: 3-4 September 2020

Venue: Budapest, Danubius Grand Hotel

The objective of the workshop is to provide participants a comprehensive overview of different fixed income securities, the characteristics of bonds, and hedging bond portfolios.

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Description

The bond market is extremely large and diverse. The scale and complexity of this market has increased in recent years, bringing new opportunities and risks to the marketplace. In addition to conventional investment strategies, portfolio managers are increasingly using hedging strategies to hedge their fixed income portfolios.

Course objectives

The objective of the workshop is to provide participants a comprehensive overview of different fixed income securities, the characteristics of bonds, bond market conventions and bond valuations.

We will then explain methods for measuring interest-rate risk. We will present and explain concepts such as duration and convexity, and we will also demonstrate how interest-rate risk can be assessed at the portfolio level. After a brief review of yield curve analysis, we will explain and demonstrate how different views about the level and shape of the yield curve can be exploited.

Finally, we will explain the role of futures and swaps in trading and hedging. Practical tips for hedging bond portfolios against interest-rate risk will also be given.

Instructor: Jernej Doles

For further information about Jernej Doles, please check out his résumé.

Course Brochure and Infographics
Bonds Workshop
Course Brochure
Tips to Understand Bonds
Easy Tips to Understand Bonds
Hedging Bond Portfolios
Hedging Bond Portfolios
Derivatives and Hedging
Derivatives and Hedging
Teaching methodology

The workshop comprises a combination of lectures, discussions, case studies and practical workshops. It is intended for participants without practical experience on debt capital markets. Traders and portfolios managers who are already engaged in trading with bonds will learn several new techniques for hedging their portfolios during the second part of the workshop. In addition to the theoretical basics, participants will find interesting solutions for their day-to-day work. Individual topics will quickly and intensely move from the basics of bonds to the operational aspects of portfolio hedging. Equal attention will be given to theoretical concepts and practical applications.

Participants are requested to bring a financial calculator (HP 17B or similar) for calculations in practical examples and exercises.

Course Contents

– Introduction to bonds
– What is a bond?
– Who are the issuers and who are investors in bonds?
– Characteristics of bonds
– Classification of bonds
– Issue and settlement of bonds
– Bond trading
– Fundamentals of investing
– Bond pricing
– Conventional yield measures
– Valuing a bond between coupon payments
– Calculating the dirty price and accrued interest
– Yield curves
– Bootstrapping
– Measuring interest-rate risk
– Introduction to fixed income derivatives
– Fundamentals of hedging bond portfolios

Who should attend

– bond traders
– portfolio managers
– bank & corporate treasury staff
– treasury sales
– treasury dealers & traders
– auditors and product control
– risk management, accounting and ALM
– finance staff at corporations
– back office personnel

Group booking discounts

2 delegates — 530 EUR per delegate
3 or more delegates — 470 EUR per delegate

Date: 3-4 September 2020
Bonds Workshop Location: Budapest, Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget, Zielinski Szilárd stny.
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