Advanced Fixed Income Professional Certificate (New York Institute of Finance)

Colleagues, the Advanced Fixed Income Professional Certificate program from the New York Institute of Finance equips you with advanced desk-ready skills for fixed income professionals. Learn the essential mathematics for term structure modeling and interest rate derivatives valuation in an accessible and intuitive fashion. Understand and apply the various approaches to constructing yield curves. Build interest rate models in discrete and continuous time. Develop expertise in the theory and application of numerical methods to price interest rate instruments including the use of finite difference techniques. The Bloomberg Professional terminal is used extensively. Earn 35 CPE credits. Understand the 'no-arbitrage' principle employed in the valuation of fixed income securities, use basic elements of stochastic calculus for rate modeling and valuation, build yield curves using a variety of techniques including splines and curve-fitting,  understand the relationship between spot rates, forward rates and expected future spot rates, build discrete and continuous time rate models, understand calibration techniques for rate models, and price interest rate instruments using numerical methods including Monte Carlo techniques and finite differences. Skill-based training modules include: Day 1) Fixed Income Basics, Yield Curve Fundamentals, A Taxonomy of Yield Curves, Yield Curve Fitting, Trading the Curve,  Day 2) Taxonomy of Interest Rate Models, Discrete Time Interest Rate Models, Day 3) Continuous Time Stochastic Processes, Continuous Time Interest Rate Models, Multi-Factor Interest Rate Models, Day 4) Pricing American Options, Overview of Numerical Methods, Monte Carlo Simulation: Discrete Models, and Day 5) Monte Carlo Simulation: Continuous Models, Finite Difference Methods: One Factor Models, Finite Difference Methods: Two Factor Models, and Desk Ready Skills Knowledge Check.

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