What Is a Research Strategy

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Essay

What is a research strategy?

Understand advanced strategies such as rate anticipation swaps, substitution swaps, and the use of convexity in portfolio management.

Understand the concept of bond duration and its calculation.

Calculate the change in bond prices given duration and a change in yield.

Distinguish between Macaulay duration and modified duration.

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