Bond Valuation and Analysis in R

Bond Valuation and Analysis in R is offered on Datacamp by Clifford Ang, Vice President at Compass Lexecon.Why value bonds? Bonds are securities issued by governments or corporations that pay interest over a fixed schedule and are the most well-known type of fixed income securities. The US fixed income market is 1.5x larger than the US stock market, but, unlike stocks, most fixed income instruments, including bonds, trade very infrequently. Consequently, a bond’s price may be a less reliable indicator of its value and analytical techniques are necessary when analyzing and valuing bonds. After this course, you will be able to use R to develop a model to value a fixed interest rate bond, estimate and analyze a bond’s yield (i.e., a measure of the opportunity cost of bond investors), and model techniques used to protect bond portfolios from changes in interest rates. This course contains 43 exercises and 13 videos.