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BOND: YIELD CURVES AND STRATEGIES

Finance Yield Curves Bond Investment Strategies
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Professional Financial Development Certification

A yield curve spells out the yield for various maturities for a given credit quality. This section considers some typical shapes of a yield curve and discusses how trading and investment strategies may be implemented based on one’s expectation of the changes in a yield curve.

Objectives
  • Learn about the issues and difficulty in the construction of a yield curve.
  • How to formulate a trading or investment strategy based on one’s view of the yield curve.
  • Know the typical shapes of yield curves and some theories that attempt to explain them.