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Hi All, I wanted to cover some high-level basic concepts across key stats, risk, and performance measures. Will create a more in-depth concept pager for each later, but in the meantime, enjoy! Key Concepts Covered: * Normal Distribution * Standard Deviation * Key characteristics of normal distribution * Regression Analysis * Linear Regression * P-value * Vector

Hi All, Today, I wanted to talk about the common credit risk metrics used by investors. Namely, credit spread, spread duration and DxS. Today's Key Concepts 1. Understanding Credit Spread and Spread Duration 2. DxS: Understanding the Relationship between Credit Spread and Spread Duration ☘️ 1. Understanding Credit Spread

Hi All, In this post, we will discuss the role of bonds in portfolio and why some people would hold fixed incomes in their portfolios. * Capital Preservation: One of the key roles of bonds in a portfolio is capital preservation. Bonds are generally considered to be less risky than stocks,

Hi All, We will discuss 'duration' today which is a key risk measure when looking at bonds. As I write this, the yield curve's inversion is at its deepest in decades, this makes duration management more important along with the yield curve moves in one'

Hi All, In this post, I wanted to go over the difference between private and public credit markets. As a recommended reading, I suggest the Preqin Academy. The credit market is a vast ecosystem comprising various types of financial instruments and investors. Two broad categories of credit markets are the

Today’s Key Concepts 1. What is a bond? 2. What Determines the Price of a Bond? 3. Understanding Bond Market Prices ☘️ 1. What is a bond? A bond is a type of fixed income investment that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower, typically a corporation