g tutorial is designed to offer
a comprehensive presentation of how professional fixed income
portfolio managers invest in the bond market. The first chapter
is a general overview of the bond market and covers the basics
of bond market investing. The following two chapters discuss
in detail the two most important fixed income concepts with
which an investor will need to be comfortable in order to understand
how the bond market functions: the bond price/ interest rate
relationship and the concept of duration. The fourth chapter
discusses the role of the Federal Reserve and its effect on
bond yield levels. The last chapter covers in detail the various
types of bonds and their related sectors.
Please feel free to browse through our glossary to look up any words that may be unclear or if you need clarification on the definition of a word.