Module 5: Trading the Curve and Portfolio Applications
Yield curve strategies
Total return analysis for yield curve shifts
Desk-Ready Skills
Understand the relationship between forward rates and spot rates
Understand the differences between spot curves, par coupon curves, forward curves, credit curves, etc.
Determine expectations of future spot rates and the term premium
Determine real rates, inflation expectations and the inflation risk premium
Learn how to construct yield curve trades including steepeners, flatteners, barbells and bullets
Understand the impact of changes in the Federal Funds rates on the shape of the yield curve
Portfolio managers, fixed income traders, fixed income desk quants, research analysts and financial analysts
Jack Farmer
Jack is currently the Curriculum Director for the New York Institute of Finance. Farmer also acts as an outside adviser for portfolio managers at significant global investment funds. These funds included emerging markets equity funds and global macro hedge funds. Jack serves a variety of functions for the funds he advises, including the development of options strategies, quantitative strategies, and hedging strategies. Additionally, Jack specializes in capitalizing on systemic and macroeconomic imbalances in equity and fixed income markets throughout the world.
Jack specializes in training and consulting solutions for portfolio risk management, FX and interest rate derivatives and trading, equity index and volatility trading, equity derivatives and structured equity products, financial statement analysis and hedge accounting.
Education
BS in Engineering from Tulane University MBA in Finance and Accounting from Tulane University Ph.D. in Finance (ABD) from the University of Texas at Austin