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Fundamental Financial Math: Uses, Applications & Quizzes

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Financial Math | Interest Rates | Compound Rates | Bond Pricing | Bond Yields | Interest Yields
4.2
4.2/5
(511) Ratings
3,690 students
Created by Starweaver Group Inc.
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What you'll learn

  • Describe the relationship between price and yield on fixed income securities
  • Explain interest rate and pricing conventions for fixed income instruments (bonds)
  • Calculate different day count and compounding conventions used in fixed income securities
  • Discuss the dramatic difference between yield to maturity and realized rate of return
  • Determine the price of both coupon bearing and zero coupon bonds
  • Apply financial math in finance, banking, securities and insurance markets and jobs
  • Use real world examples to apply your knowledge to everyday financial and capital market issues
This course includes:
2.5 total hours on-demand video
1 articles
19 downloadable resources
21 lessons
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of completion
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Course content

Requirements

  • A financial calculator is recommended to get the most out of this course
  • Knowledge of the English language

Description

This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a  wide variety of applications – calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed. 

This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections: 

  • Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money

  • Debt Security Pricing

  • Bond Yields and Rates of Return

The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor’s presentation are included to help participants follow along. 

More about this course and Starweaver

This course is led by a seasoned capital markets industry practitioner and executive with many years of hands-on, in-the-trenches financial markets sales, trading and analysis work. It has been designed, produced and delivered by Starweaver. Starweaver is one of the most highly regarded, well-established training providers in the world, providing training courses to many of the leading financial institutions and technology companies, including:

Ahli United Bank; Mashreqbank; American Express; ANZ Bank; ATT; Banco Votorantim; Bank of America; Bank of America Global Markets; Bank of America Private Bank; Barclay Bank; BMO Financial Group; BMO Financial Services; BNP Paribas; Boeing; Cigna; Citibank; Cognizant; Commerzbank; Credit Lyonnais/Calyon; Electrosonic; Farm Credit Administration; Fifth Third Bank; GENPACT; GEP Software; GLG Group; Hartford; HCL; HCL; Helaba; HSBC; HSBC Corporate Bank; HSBC India; HSBC Private Bank; Legal & General; National Australia Bank; Nomura Securities; PNC Financial Services Group; Quintiles; RAK Bank; Regions Bank; Royal Bank of Canada; Royal Bank of Scotland; Santander Corporate Bank; Tata Consultancy Services; Union Bank; ValueMomentum; Wells Fargo; Wells Fargo India Solutions; Westpac Corporate Bank; Wipro; and, many others.

Happy learning.

Who this course is for:

  • All levels of participants are encouraged to take this course.
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