Course Outline
 

Course Title

 

FREE Introductory module to the Interest Rate Derivatives: Advanced concepts in Portfolio Management Series

Course Category

   Online
Target Audience  

This course is designed for institutional investors who wish to gain a complete understanding of the use of interest rate derivatives within the context of a fixed income or interest rate sensitive portfolio.

Continuing Education

 

non applicable

Prerequistes

  non applicable
Objectives   non applicable
Subject by level  

Topics  

This module is intended to present  the investor with a brief overview of each courses of the series titled :  Interest Rate Derivatives - Advanced concepts

The Interest Rate Derivatives in Portfolio Management builds on your understanding of basic derivative concepts.

These concepts include payoff and pricing fundamentals and trading rules and strategies.  You should already understand that derivatives are contingent claim contracts deriving their worth from the market value of the underlying asset.  These assets include a multitude of securities and commodities like stocks, gems and precious metal.

This serie also presents specific applications for derivatives with the intent of broadening your understandig of futures, forwards, swaps and options using interest rates as underlying assets

To benefit from this course, it is crucial that you recall the primary characteristics of futures, forwards and options contracts.

Please note since this is an introductory module, there is no quiz available.  Therefore, no score will be tracked or recorded under that particular module.

 
Duration   Approximately 15 minutes
Time to comple the course   non applicable
Date   Available now

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