Handbook of Global Fixed
Income Calculations
Participants in the global
fixed income market need a solid understanding of the standard formulas and conventions
used for pricing and hedging. And although it is common financial knowledge that the full
price of any fixed income security is the sum of the present values of its future cash
flows at settlement date, in practice, all pricing conventions must be correctly specified
for bond prices and sensitivity measures to be calculated accurately.
In the Handbook of Global
Fixed Income Calculations, Wall Street professional Dragomir Krgin provides an up-to-date,
informative, and detailed guide for the calculation of measures as used by bond market
participants around the world. This invaluable book provides comprehensive coverage on a
global scale of a number of fixed income calculation issues. Whether you're an analyst,
portfolio manager, or CIO, you'll benefit from the straightforward conventions and
formulas for calculating prices, yields, and other measures on periodic payment fixed
income instruments that are presented in this book.
Filled with expert advice and
proven techniques, the Handbook of Global Fixed Income Calculations:
Provides you with general
price/yield formulas for periodic payment fixed income securities
Shows you how to compute
accrued interest (covers twenty-six countries)
Offers sample calculations
for periodic payment fixed income securities
Demonstrates how to
determine coupon dates for periodic payment fixed income securities
Continuing down the path of
global fixed income calculations, this complete guide also provides in-depth coverage of
cash flow calculations, forward pricing analysis, futures conversion factor, and futures
analytics for U.S. securities, as well as foreign government bonds.
With numerous examples that
cover all possible cases, the Handbook of Global Fixed Income Calculations can easily be
understood by both experienced financial professionals and newcomers to the global fixed
income market. From U.S. corporate bonds to the bonds of European Monetary Union (EMU)
countries, the Handbook of Global Fixed Income Calculations oners the most comprehensive
treatment of fixed income calculations available. The financial world does not carry many
guarantees, but with the Handbook of Global Fixed Income Calculations you're guaranteed to
understand the standards and methodologies for fixed income calculations.
DRAGOMIR KRGIN has been
working for Merrill Lynch for fifteen years. He was in a debt analytics group where he
developed fixed income analytics for Merrill Lynch, which is now used by the company's
trading, sales, and research employees throughout the world. He received a BS in
mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering, and an MS in operation research and
cybernetics, all in Yugoslavia.
378 pages