This book analyses and discusses bonds and bond portfolios. Different yields and duration measures are investigated. The transition from a single bond to a bond portfolio leads to the equation for the internal rate of return. Its solution is analyzed and compared to different approaches proposed...

Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were...

What Is Portfolio Analytics?- From Risk Factors to Returns: Computing Exposures -- A Useful Approximation -- Extending Our Framework -- The Yield Curve: Fitting Yield Curves -- Modelling Yield Curves -- Performance: Basic Performance Attribution -- Advanced Performance Attribution -- Traditional...

Despite popular belief, bond and stock investors are not opposites. Stock investors can apply bond strategies to safeguard returns. And bond investors can do better using a stock selection strategy designed to improve the portfolio's income distribution. This book will teach you to look at...

Die regulatorischen Kapitalanforderungen für Banken stellen häufig keine korrekte Erfassung des tatsächlichen ökonomischen Ausfallrisikos von mit Eigenkapitel zu unterlegenden Forderungen dar. Diese Diskrepanz zwischen ökonomischer und regulatorischer Kapitalunterlegung wirft insbesondere...

Für eine fundierte Anlageentscheidung ist die Messung und Beurteilung der erzielten Ergebnisse unabdingbar. Die Dimensionen Rendite und Risiko sind daher immer gemeinsam zu betrachten, um Fehlallokationen zu vermeiden. Jens Daum untersucht die zur Verfügung stehenden Instrumente der...

The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to...

A major theme of this book is the development of a consistent unified model framework for the evaluation of bond options. In general options on zero bonds (e.g. caps) and options on coupon bearing bonds (e.g. swaptions) are linked by no-arbitrage relations through the correlation structure of...

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques. Taking into account the latest mathematical and econometric developments in finance, it analyzes the hedging securities and structured instruments that are offered by banks, since recent research in...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...