• Simplifies the complex fixed income concepts through a user-friendly coherent format
• Complex topics are illustrated and explained concisely and easy-to-understand with real-world data using Excel and a financial calculator
• Enhances the knowledge and skills required to manage the fixed-income portfolio
• Provides why, when, and how to use derivatives instruments to shift the risk associated with investing in fixed income securities
• Numerical problems and case studies at the end of each chapter provide practice on concepts explained and application to real-world situations
• Rich pedagogical features, such as
  • LOs and introductory Stimulus
  • Side-textboxes and Takeaways
  • Numerous tables and figures
  • Chapter-end exercises and mini-cases
• Includes a licence key for our digital learning app, Cengage Digital App, that provides access to flashcards, self-assessments, and Solutions Manual, including worked-out examples in MS Excel

Preface

Features of the Book

List of abbreviations

PART I   BOND STRUCTURE, PRICING, AND INVESTING

1. Debt Securities Market —An Overview

2. Debt Market Instruments

3. How Are Bonds Issued?

4. How Are Bonds Traded?

5. Worth of a Bond! —Essentials of Bond Valuation

6. Worth of a Bond! —The classical Approach

7. Measuring Yield and Return

PART II BOND MARKET ANALYTICS: ESSENTIALS

8. Tenets of Successful Interest Rate Forecasting

9. Yield Curve and Term Structure

10. Measuring and Managing Interest Rate Risk

11. Measuring and Managing Credit Risk

PART III BOND MARKET ANALYTICS: ADVANCED

12. Arbitrage-free Valuation Framework

13. Valuation of Bonds with Embedded Options

PART IV SOME DEBT SECURITIES SEGMENTS

14. Securitisation and Mortgage-backed Securities

15. Inflation-linked Bonds

PART V INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

16. Overview of Fixed Income Portfolio Management

17. Liability-driven Strategies

18. Yield Curve Strategies

19. Bond Performance Measurement and Evaluation

PART VI RISK MANAGEMENT USING DERIVATIVES

20. An Overview of Derivatives

21. Interest Rate Forwards

22. Interest Rate Futures

23. Interest Rate Options

24. Interest Rate Swaps

M. Kannadhasan

M. Kannadhasan is Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, where he teaches Fixed Income Securities to the students of the MBA programme. He received his bachelor’s degree in commerce from Madras University; MBA from Bharathiar University; Master’s in Foreign Trade from Pondicherry University; and PhD in Finance from Anna University. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Bharathidhasan Institute of Management, Trichy.

Prof. Kannadhasan’s research work has appeared in numerous journals of repute, including the International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Applied Economics Letters, and The North American Journal of Economics and Finance. He has also published cases with Ivey Publishing, Canada, and is listed in Harvard Business Publishing Education. He has also authored a book and three monographs.

Dr Kannadhasan attended the 'Global Colloquium on Participant Centered Learning’ and 'Case Writing Workshop’ held at Harvard Business School in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He is the recipient of ‘Best Professor in Financial Management’ at the 4th Asia’s Best B-Schools Awards in 2013 from the CMO Asia with CMO Council in Singapore and the USA. He is also the recipient of 'Best Researcher of the Year in Finance’ in 2019 from the RULA Awards, powered by World Research Council and United Medical Council. Bharat Vikas Award was conferred to him in 2019 for excellence in the finance domain.