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Bond Valuation and Analysis in Python

Intermediate

Updated 12/2024

Learn how bonds work and how to price them and assess some of their risks using the numpy and numpy-financial packages.

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Course Description

The world’s bond market has a value of around 120 trillion dollars; it plays a key role in helping both governments and businesses raise capital and is an essential part of most investment portfolios. In this course, you’ll gain the essential skills needed to work in the financial, insurance, and accounting industries, including understanding and analyzing markets. Through hands-on activities, you’ll discover how bonds work, how to price them, and how to assess some of their risks using numpy and numpy-financial packages.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Functions in Python

1

Time Value of Money

Simple interest & compound interest

Calculating simple interest

Calculating compound interest

Future value & compounding frequencies

Calculating future value

Calculating compounding frequencies

More financial functions

Calculating the number of periods

Calculating the payment amount

Calculating the required interest rate

Solving real-world problems

2

Bond Prices & Yields

Present value & zero coupon bonds

Calculating present value

Pricing zero coupon bonds

Coupon paying bonds

Impact of bond yields on price

Impact of coupons on price

Bond prices vs. bond yields

Discount vs. par vs. premium

Plotting bond prices against yields

Calculating bond yields

Comparing zero coupon bond yields

Comparing coupon bond yields

3

Duration

Interest rate sensitivity of two bonds

Zero coupon and coupon bond duration

Factors affecting duration

The bond with the highest duration

Comparing the duration of two bonds directly

Using the steepness of the price/yield line

Plotting duration vs. the factor

Dollar duration & bond price prediction

Percent duration and dollar duration

Creating a duration neutral portfolio

Predicting price impacts from duration

4

Convexity

Predicted vs. actual prices I

Predicted vs. actual prices II

Finding the convexity of a bond

Factors affecting convexity

The bond with the highest convexity

Comparing the convexity of two bonds directly

Using the curvature of the price/yield line

Plotting convexity vs. the factor

Dollar convexity and bond price prediction

Dollar convexity

Convexity adjustment

Combining duration and convexity

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