Table of Contents

Lists of Figures, Tables, Case Studies. Foreword by G. Mahalingam. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations 1. Fixed Income Securities Market: An Overview 2. Fixed Income Instruments: Various Classifications 3. Basic Statistics 4. Risk and Return Measures 5. Term Structures of Interest Rates 6. Pricing and Valuation Techniques 7. Interest Rate Sensitivity Measures 8. Financial Derivatives Contract 9. Interest Rate Futures 10. Forward Rate Agreement and Interest Rate Swaps 11. Interest Rate Options and Structured Products 12. Credit Default Swaps 13. Trading and Management Strategies 14. Risk Management (Focus: Market Risk). Glossary. Index

About the Author

Kedar Nath Mukherjee is Assistant Professor at National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He has extensive experience in providing training to senior and middle-level executives in treasury and risk management departments of commercial, investment, and cooperative banks, primary dealers, insurance companies, pension funds, public sector undertakings, corporate treasuries, etc., on the topics of fixed income securities, bond portfolio management, investment management, risk management, and financial derivatives. Besides professional training, he also teaches courses in PGDM programmes and undertakes consultancy activities. He has published research papers in various journals, and the monograph Fixed Income Securities: Valuation, Risk and Risk Management.