MODULE 2
FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

DAY TWO Thursday, July 20th
FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT II
SELECTING A FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO STRATEGY
  • Selecting a Portfolio Strategy
  • Active versus Passive versus Liability Funding Strategies
  • ACTIVE YIELD CURVE TRADING STRATEGIES
  • Theories about the shape of the yield curve
  • Empirical evidence on the yield curve
  • Portfolio Strategies to capitalise on changing yield curve shapes
  • Bullets and Barbells
  • Zero Coupon bonds: a closer look
  • PASSIVE FIXED INCOME STRATEGIES
  • Fixed Income Indices: an introduction
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Passive Management
  • IMMUNISATION
  • Rationale for Immunisation
  • Immunisation in Practice
  • LIABILITY DRIVEN INVESTMENT
  • What is meant by LDI?
  • Rationale for LDI
  • Risks that cannot be immunized with LDI
  • CREDIT DERIVATIVES AND STRUCTURED PRODUCTS
  • CDSs - the mechanics
  • Characteristics of CDOs, CLOs and CPDOs
  • Cash and Synthetic Structured Products
  • GUEST SPEAKER
    Robert Gardner
    Partner & Co-Principal
    REDINGTON PARTNERS LLP
    Pensions Risk Management - a practitioner's approach
    CONCLUSION OF FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT MODULE
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