Key Learning Aims:
- Explain bond terminologies and features
- Justify rationales for investing in bonds
- Compare and contrast risks and return drivers of sovereign bonds, corporate bonds, perpetual bonds, convertible bonds and contingent convertible bonds
- Value a bond and explain what causes its value to change
- Interpret the yield curve and its information content
- Describe risks of investing in bonds
- Explain the interest rate risk of bonds
- Calculate a bond’s modified duration and show how it can be used to measure interest rate risk
- Illustrate how duration is used in bond portfolio management
- Define credit risk and relate credit risk, credit ratings and credit spreads
- Use total return analysis to estimate the total return from investing in a bond over a specified investment period
This Program is Recommended For:
- Debt capital market professionals
- Treasury professionals
- Corporate finance professionals
- Buy and sell-side analysts
- Financial advisers and dealers
- Finance professionals in a corporation
- New entrants to capital markets/finance
Program Duration: 6 Hours
Program Prerequisites: None.
SIDC CPE Points: 10 Points.
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Course Instructor
Kah Teck has more than a decade of capital markets experience. He was a portfolio strategist in CIMB Investment Bank and AmInvestment Bank where he was responsible for spearheading investment advisory and product development initiatives and also played an active role in evaluating numerous plain vanilla and hybrid fund raising options. He has also worked for the Securities Commission in research and formulating capital market development policies.
Now the Managing Director and Principal Trainer for FMTCS Sdn Bhd, Kah Teck passionately shares his knowledge and experience with professionals in many of Malaysia’s leading financial institutions and government-linked institutions. His trainees frequently credit him with the ability to make finance interesting and demystify complex finance concepts.
Kah Teck graduated summa cum laude with a dual degree in finance and economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences, and holds an MBA (with Honors) from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. Kah Teck was also awarded the ASEAN scholarship to pursue pre-university studies in Singapore.
His teaching and research interests are in corporate finance, derivatives, securities valuation, financial risk management, financial modelling and financial analysis.