FOR FIXED INCOME PROFESSIONALS
Advanced Theory & Practice of Bonds
IBF Funding Available | 12 CPD Hours
7-8 June 2022 (Tues-Wed)
The bond markets are far larger than the equity markets but they are also more complex given the different types of bond structures, optionality, valuation and risks.
Finance professionals thus need to understand the finer intricacies of bonds to advise their clients better. Facilitated by seasoned debt capital market bankers, this course provides the necessary foundation to analyse bonds and expert insights on how to better advise on bonds.
Course Modules
- Introduction to Bonds
- What is a bond?
- Bonds vs stocks
- Types of bonds
- Duration
- Yield
- Accrued interest
- Macroeconomic Factors That Impact Bond Prices
- Yield curve
- Fed dot plot
- Inflationary factors
- Monetary policy
- Stimulus measures
- Bond Valuation & Risk
- What is spread?
- Z-spread
- Credit Default Swap (CDS)
- Components of bond yield
- Getting risk for return
- COLT Framework
- Credit
- Optionality
- Liquidity
- Tenor
- New Bond Issues & Credit Ratings
- Factors that determine pricing
- New issue premium
- Tightening
- Book allocations
- Tap
- Credit ratings ladder
- Factors that determine credit ratings
- Altman’s Z-Score
- Popular Bonds & Allocations
- Secondary Trading of Bonds
- Current bond industry structure
- How to track bond prices
- Importance of news monitoring
- How to assess liquidity of a bond
- Future of bond markets
- Using Excel to Understand Bond Calculations
- Bond cash flows
- Clean vs dirty price
- Portfolio value and profit & loss
- Price and yield calculations
- Portfolio volatility
- Dv01 risk ladder
- Bond Portfolio Optimization
- Volatility
- Sharpe ratio
- Diversification & home bias
- Buy & hold vs active management
- Effect of Leverage
- Understanding ESG Bonds
- ESG bond types
- ESG standards
- Greenium
- Greenwashing
- High Yield Bonds
- What are high yield bonds?
- High yield bond structures
- Key idiosyncratic risks
- Protection against key risks via the covenant package
- Current high yield environment
- Perpetual Bonds
- What are perpetual bonds
- What are Additional Tier 1s
- Bank liability structure
- Common features of AT1s
- Loss absorption mechanisms
- Corporate vs bank perps
This section covers fundamental bond structures and key concepts to facilitate participants’ understanding of the bond market.
This section reviews real-world examples of macroeconomic events and news to explain how they influence the bond market.
Participants will learn how to interpret key bond metrics to evaluate bond risks.
This section covers an in-depth explanation of the new bond issue timeline, terminology and how to analyse them. It also covers how to find and interpret credit ratings.
Participants will review their understanding of the new bond issues process by examining recent prominent bond issuances with a focus on order books and allocations.
Participants will be equipped with a working knowledge of secondary trading of bonds, including where to find bond prices and important bond market factors to look out for.
This section covers Excel tools that’s participants can utilise to perform calculations for bond and portfolio analysis.
Participants can learn how to build a diversified bond portfolio, manage risk at the portfolio level and investment strategies.
This section is a discussion on how leverage works, its effect on the portfolio in different scenarios and key risks of using leverage on bonds.
Participants will get an overview of the current ESG bond space and key considerations when looking at ESG bonds.
Participants will get an expert’s perspective on how to navigate the Asian high yield bond market and how to understand key characteristics of high yield bonds.
This section focuses on the structure of perpetual bonds, and gives participants a deep dive into bank Additional Tier 1 (AT1s).
Course Instructors
Dr. Rahul Banerjee
Co-Founder & CEO
Rahul is a DCM-banker with 20 years of experience, including stints at global premier banks such as Credit Suisse, Nomura and Citi. In his previous role, he was the Global Head of International Corporates, Financial Market Sales at Standard Chartered Bank, where his team was based across all the major dealing rooms and covered the Fixed Income needs of large corporate clients.
Pramod Shenoi
President – CreditSights Singapore
Pramod has extensive experience in debt markets. He is the Head of Research for Asia Pacific at CreditSights, an independent credit research firm that caters to institutional bond investors. Prior to this, he was the regional head of financial institutions for Mizuho Securities’ Debt Capital Markets team, covering financial issuers in Asia ex Japan.
Florian Schmidt
CEO & Founder, Frontier Strategies
Florian is the CEO and founder of Frontier Strategies, a boutique solutions provider for frontier market entities. He has been active in Asia’s debt capital markets since 1993, having worked for Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Bank of America,
ING and SC Lowy. He has been acting as advisor to the Government of Mongolia since 2017 and was involved in discussions with the IMF to design and successfully execute all liability management transactions and new issues since 2017, the
latest one in late June 2021. Florian holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Münster and is the author of several capital markets-related books, including the acclaimed “A Guide to Asian High Yield
Bonds”,published in 2014.
George Thomas
Director – Fixed Income, BondEvalue
George has a decade of experience in Fixed Income Markets having previously worked at Credit Suisse. He used to work on the Asian Local Currency Fixed Income Trading desk for over four years, primarily focusing on India Offshore and South East Asian markets. His experience includes trading bonds, futures, swaps and onshore & offshore FX.
Who Should Attend?
- Bond investors
- Private bankers
- Relationship managers
- Remisiers
- Wealth managers
- Junior traders
Learning Objectives
The bond markets are far larger than the equity markets – 8mn bonds vs. 600k stocks. They are also more complex compared to equities as there are different types of bond structures, optionality, valuation and risks.
Finance professionals thus need to understand the finer intricacies of bonds to advise their clients better. Facilitated by seasoned debt capital market bankers, this course provides the necessary foundation to analyse bonds and expert insights on how to navigate the bond markets.
- Understand bond fundamentals such as terminology, structures, yield calculations
- Use z-spread & duration to analyse bonds
- Use the COLT Framework (Credit, Optionality, Liquidity, Tenor) to evaluate bond risks
- Find and understand credit ratings
- Understand the new bond issue process
- Be familiar with secondary trading of bonds
- Using Excel to perform bond calculations
- Construct and analyse bond portfolio
- Measure portfolio risk
- Understand the impact of leverage in different scenarios
- Understand ESG bonds types and current environment
- Analyse perpetual bonds
- Analyse high yield bonds
Fees, Funding & Dates
IBF funding is available under the Financial Training Scheme (FTS) to company-sponsored candidates who are Singapore
citizens or Singapore PRs physically based in Singapore that complete the course (including passing the assessment).
Candidates must be sponsored by financial institutions and/or eligible fintech firms to avail of the funding.
50% funding available to Singaporeans below 40 and PRs. 90% funding available to Singaporeans over 40
| Date | Day | Time Zone | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26-27 October 2022 | Wed-Thu | Asia/UK | 9am to 5pm SG/HK |
- Introduction to Bonds
- What is a bond?
- Bonds vs stocks
- Types of bonds
- Duration
- Yield
- Accrued interest
- Macroeconomic Factors That Impact Bond Prices
- Yield curve
- Fed dot plot
- Inflationary factors
- Monetary policy
- Stimulus measures
- Bond Valuation & Risk
- What is spread?
- Z-spread
- Credit Default Swap (CDS)
- Components of bond yield
- Getting risk for return
- COLT Framework
- Credit
- Optionality
- Liquidity
- Tenor
- New Bond Issues & Credit Ratings
- Factors that determine pricing
- New issue premium
- Tightening
- Book allocations
- Tap
- Credit ratings ladder
- Factors that determine credit ratings
- Altman’s Z-Score
- Popular Bonds & Allocations
- Secondary Trading of Bonds
- Current bond industry structure
- How to track bond prices
- Importance of news monitoring
- How to assess liquidity of a bond
- Future of bond markets
- Using Excel to Understand Bond Calculations
- Bond cash flows
- Clean vs dirty price
- Portfolio value and profit & loss
- Price and yield calculations
- Portfolio volatility
- Dv01 risk ladder
- Bond Portfolio Optimization
- Volatility
- Sharpe ratio
- Diversification & home bias
- Buy & hold vs active management
- Effect of Leverage
- Understanding ESG Bonds
- ESG bond types
- ESG standards
- Greenium
- Greenwashing
- High Yield Bonds
- What are high yield bonds?
- High yield bond structures
- Key idiosyncratic risks
- Protection against key risks via the covenant package
- Current high yield environment
- Perpetual Bonds
- What are perpetual bonds
- What are Additional Tier 1s
- Bank liability structure
- Common features of AT1s
- Loss absorption mechanisms
- Corporate vs bank perps
This section covers fundamental bond structures and key concepts to facilitate participants’ understanding of the bond market.
This section reviews real-world examples of macroeconomic events and news to explain how they influence the bond market.
Participants will learn how to interpret key bond metrics to evaluate bond risks.
This section covers an in-depth explanation of the new bond issue timeline, terminology and how to analyse them. It also covers how to find and interpret credit ratings.
Participants will review their understanding of the new bond issues process by examining recent prominent bond issuances with a focus on order books and allocations.
Participants will be equipped with a working knowledge of secondary trading of bonds, including where to find bond prices and important bond market factors to look out for.
This section covers Excel tools that’s participants can utilise to perform calculations for bond and portfolio analysis.
Participants can learn how to build a diversified bond portfolio, manage risk at the portfolio level and investment strategies.
This section is a discussion on how leverage works, its effect on the portfolio in different scenarios and key risks of using leverage on bonds.
Participants will get an overview of the current ESG bond space and key considerations when looking at ESG bonds.
Participants will get an expert’s perspective on how to navigate the Asian high yield bond market and how to understand key characteristics of high yield bonds.
This section focuses on the structure of perpetual bonds, and gives participants a deep dive into bank Additional Tier 1 (AT1s).
Dr. Rahul Banerjee
Co-Founder & CEO
Rahul is a DCM-banker with 20 years of experience, including stints at global premier banks such as Credit Suisse, Nomura and Citi. In his previous role, he was the Global Head of International Corporates, Financial Market Sales at Standard Chartered Bank, where his team was based across all the major dealing rooms and covered the Fixed Income needs of large corporate clients.
Pramod Shenoi
President – CreditSights Singapore
Pramod has extensive experience in debt markets. He is the Head of Research for Asia Pacific at CreditSights, an independent credit research firm that caters to institutional bond investors. Prior to this, he was the regional head of financial institutions for Mizuho Securities’ Debt Capital Markets team, covering financial issuers in Asia ex Japan.
Florian Schmidt
CEO & Founder, Frontier Strategies
Florian is the CEO and founder of Frontier Strategies, a boutique solutions provider for frontier market entities. He has been active in Asia’s debt capital markets since 1993, having worked for Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Bank of America, ING and SC Lowy. He has been acting as advisor to the Government of Mongolia since 2017 and was involved in discussions with the IMF to design and successfully execute all liability management transactions and new issues since 2017, the latest one in late June 2021. Florian holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Münster and is the author of several capital markets-related books, including the acclaimed “A Guide to Asian High Yield Bonds”, published in 2014.
George Thomas
Director – Fixed Income, BondEvalue
George has a decade of experience in Fixed Income Markets having previously worked at Credit Suisse. He used to work on the Asian Local Currency Fixed Income Trading desk for over four years, primarily focusing on India Offshore and South East Asian markets. His experience includes trading bonds, futures, swaps and onshore & offshore FX.
- Bond investors
- Private bankers
- Relationship managers
- Remisiers
- Wealth managers
- Junior traders
The bond markets are far larger than the equity markets – 8mn bonds vs. 600k stocks. They are also more complex compared to equities as there are different types of bond structures, optionality, valuation and risks.
Finance professionals thus need to understand the finer intricacies of bonds to advise their clients better. Facilitated by seasoned debt capital market bankers, this course provides the necessary foundation to analyse bonds and expert insights on how to navigate the bond markets.
- Understand bond fundamentals such as terminology, structures, yield calculations
- Use z-spread & duration to analyse bonds
- Use the COLT Framework (Credit, Optionality, Liquidity, Tenor) to evaluate bond risks
- Find and understand credit ratings
- Understand the new bond issue process
- Be familiar with secondary trading of bonds
- Using Excel to perform bond calculations
- Construct and analyse bond portfolio
- Measure portfolio risk
- Understand the impact of leverage in different scenarios
- Understand ESG bonds types and current environment
- Analyse perpetual bonds
- Analyse high yield bonds
The course fees excluding funding and GST is SGD 2,000 per attendee.
IBF funding is available under the Financial Training Scheme (FTS) to company-sponsored candidates who are Singapore
citizens or Singapore PRs physically based in Singapore that complete the course (including passing the assessment).
Candidates must be sponsored by financial institutions and/or eligible fintech firms to avail of the funding.
50% funding available to Singaporeans below 40 and PRs. 90% funding available to Singaporeans over 40
| Date | Day | Time Zone | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26-27 October 2022 | Wed-Thu | Asia/UK | 9am to 5pm SG/HK |
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For inquiries:
Raahil Shah - VP, BondEvalue
Instructor Ratings & Reviews
4.95/5
Dr. Rahul Banerjee
4.83/5
George Thomas
4.65/5
Pramod Shenoi
“It was a well-organized training and was able to acquire a great deal of information on Bond Markets and Emerging Technologies in this 2 day workshop. Both the instructors Rahul and George were engaging ,very knowledgeable, clear and prepared.”
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Terms & Conditions
- Funding is only available to candidates that meet the eligible funding criteria, as defined by IBF here: https://www.ibf.org.sg/programmes/Pages/IBF-FTS.aspx
- By filling up the form above, you agree to be contacted by our team
- We reserve the right to not proceed with registration if the candidate does not meet certain criteria
Assessment
The course will conclude with an online assessment of up to 20 multiple-choice questions, requiring an 70% pass rate. Candidates may re-sit the assessment as many times as required.
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