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Fixed Income Attribution

4.4
7 reviews
  • The course leader was quite knowledgeable and not only had knowledge about the topic itself, but also about the broader financial market.
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  • Very accurate course, it gave me a deeper knowledge of the topic and the techniques used in the financial market.
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  • All around organized course that advantages from the bits of knowledge in industry rehearse Rupesh gives en route.
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Short course

In London and Singapore (Singapore)

£ 2001-3000

Acquire working experience in the field of fixed income attribution!

  • Duration

    2 Days

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This hands on course enables participants to get a practical working experience of fixed income attribution, from planning to implementation and analysis. After completing the course you will have developed the skills to:

Understand how attribution works and the value it adds to the investment process
Interpret attribution reports from commercial systems
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of commercially available attribution software
Make informed decisions about the build vs. buy decision
Present results in terms accessible to all parts of the business

This course is also available remotely via LFS Live.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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34 Curlew Street, se12nd

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open
Singapore (Singapore)
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The Finexis Building

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Performance analysts
Fund and portfolio managers
Investment officers
Fixed Income professionals (marketing/sales)
Auditors and compliance
Quants and IT developers

A basic understanding of fixed income products
Microsoft Excel

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Reviews

4.4
fantastic
  • The course leader was quite knowledgeable and not only had knowledge about the topic itself, but also about the broader financial market.
    |
  • Very accurate course, it gave me a deeper knowledge of the topic and the techniques used in the financial market.
    |
  • All around organized course that advantages from the bits of knowledge in industry rehearse Rupesh gives en route.
    |
100%
4.4
fantastic

Course rating

Recommended

Centre rating

Head of Strategic Liquidity Reserve

4.0
10/12/2016
What I would highlight: The course leader was quite knowledgeable and not only had knowledge about the topic itself, but also about the broader financial market.
What could be improved: Everything OK.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Former Student

5.0
12/10/2016
What I would highlight: Very accurate course, it gave me a deeper knowledge of the topic and the techniques used in the financial market.
What could be improved: Nothing.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Anonymous

4.0
08/10/2016
What I would highlight: All around organized course that advantages from the bits of knowledge in industry rehearse Rupesh gives en route.
What could be improved: Everything OK.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Anonymous

4.0
05/10/2016
What I would highlight: LFS’s program was pertinent for the present hazy area of Fixed Income Attribution. It was a very much organized course and I would prescribe individuals from the Industry to go to it for the general development of the Industry. It was a genuine worth for cost.
What could be improved: No negative aspects.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Anonymous

5.0
03/10/2016
What I would highlight: I went to the Fixed Income Attribution course at 57245040080951515555556954524568 Studies. The staff is more than kind and exceptionally eager to help with individual inquiries (e.g. orchestrating a taxi). The offices are productive and wholesome. Everything worked extremely well. The refreshments, for example, espresso, tea, juice, natural products, croissants are crisp and accessible the whole day. The course was detailed and the measure of materials secured was ideal for the 2-day time period. The guide's showing abilities were of an exceptional state and his devotion to the course guaranteed a pleasant learning knowledge.
What could be improved: Nothing bad.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Anonymous

4.5
09/09/2016
What I would highlight: The course was exceptionally significant to me, particularly the all around arranged Excel work assignments. Much thanks.
What could be improved: Nothing.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Anonymous

4.0
22/04/2016
What I would highlight: Rupesh is an amazinginstructor; he is capable of explaining complicated concepts in a really easy way to understand.
What could be improved: Everything OK.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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This centre's achievements

2016

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The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 16 years

Subjects

  • Risk
  • Fixed Income
  • Securities
  • Credit
  • Fixed Income Attribution
  • EMD
  • MBS
  • Marketing
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Menchero
  • Frongello
  • Geometric
  • Money Markets
  • Bonds
  • Perpetuals
  • Performance evaluation
  • Performance
  • Benchmarking
  • Stock Markets
  • Asset Allocation

Teachers and trainers (1)

Rupesh  Tailor

Rupesh Tailor

Teacher

Rupesh Tailor is a banking sector specialist with over thirteen years’ experience, working for sell-side and buy-side financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Auriga Investors and Morgan Stanley. He specialized in the European bank sector as well as the analysis of high yield and leveraged finance investments. His responsibilities included analysis, trading and portfolio management of credit and equity products. Rupesh developed a proprietary method for predicting bank failure, which has been used to accurately predict banking stress.

Course programme

Day One

Laying the groundwork
  • Attribution: what it is, why it’s useful
  • The basics of performance measurement
  • Foreign exchange, hedging and benchmarks
  • Stock selection and asset allocation
    - Brinson Fachler and Brinson Beebower Hood models
  • Why forwards can drastically change an attribution analysis:
    - Brinson and Karnosky Singer models
  • Why smoothing is needed and how to do it:
    - Carino, Menchero, Frongello, geometric and other models
Exercise: performance, equity attribution, forwards and smoothing in practice

Review of fixed income fundamentals
  • A quick overview of fixed income risk; a bond as a bundle of risks
  • Yield curves: par, zero and real
  • Pricing, risk and the fundamental attribution equation
Exercise: Breaking down the yield curve

Decomposing fixed income return
  • Carry and roll down return
  • Risk free curve return:
    - duration
    - shift/twist/butterfly
    - key rate durations
    - principal components
    - two and three factor models to describe yield curve movements
  • Sector and credit return:
    - country spread
    - spread change allocation and selection
    - sector and security specific returns
  • Paydown return for amortizing securities, convexity return, repricing return, trading return
  • Widely used attribution models:
  • Campisi
  • Tim Lord
  • Van Breukelen
  • top down
  • EMD
  • high yield
Exercise: Different approaches to attribution

Day Two

Attribution by security type
  • Bonds and perpetuals
  • Money markets: Cash, bills, discount securities, CDs, FRNs, forwards
  • Inflation linked securities and breakeven return
  • Futures and the cheapest to deliver
  • Sinkers: amortizing bonds, MBS and ABS
  • Swaps
  • Credit derivatives
  • Options and callable/puttable bonds
Exercise: Running attribution on a real portfolio

Attribution and risk
  • Applying attribution to Value at Risk: calculating VaR and ETL on attribution returns
Bringing it together
  • Useful tricks and short cuts
  • Reporting and residuals
  • Other attribution models (style attribution, risk attribution, stochastic attribution)
Various other examples will be shown during the course, including:
  • Duration attribution
  • Assessing curve steepening
  • Sector and credit spread analyses
  • Breakeven trades in inflation linked portfolios
  • Barbell and other curve positioning strategies
  • High yield attribution
  • Top down attribution
  • Handling options
In addition, answers to the following questions will be discussed:
  • Curvature versus convexity: what’s the difference?
  • What is the right way to measure parallel shift?
  • Why a zero coupon bond shows time return without accruing interest?
  • How many risk factors has an FRN?
  • Modified duration, Fisher Weil duration or DV01: which risk measure is best for attribution?
  • How to handle hedged benchmark issues?

Fixed Income Attribution

£ 2001-3000