Yield Measures, Spot Rates, and Forward Rates

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A fixed-income security, such as a bond, provides three different types of returns, and a yield meas...

The current yield of a bond measures the interest income that an investor gets from the bond. It’s r...

Yield to Maturity (YTM) is the most commonly used and comprehensive measure of risk. In fact, if som...

In the bond market the convention is to annualize the semi-annual yield by simply doubling it. So, i...

[Calculating yield to maturity](https://financetrain.com/how-to-calculate-yield-to-maturity/) can so...

[Yield to maturity](https://financetrain.com/how-to-calculate-yield-to-maturity/ "How to Calculate Y...

As we learned in the previous article, coupon paying bonds have reinvestment risk because the invest...

In the US, most bonds are generally semi-annual coupon paying bonds, so we calculate the semi-annual...

For callable bonds that are likely to be called before their maturity, it is more useful to calculat...

For some debt products such as [mortgage-backed securities](https://financetrain.com/introduction-to...

A spot rate curve, also known as a zero curve refers to the yield curve constructed using the spot r...

The simplest way to calculate the value of a bond is to take the cash flows of the bond till its mat...

Nominal Spread, or the nominal yield spread, is the most simple yield spread for non-Treasury bonds....

The problem with [**nominal spread**](https://financetrain.com/nominal-spread/ "Nominal Spread") is ...

The [**Z-spread**](https://financetrain.com/z-spread-definition-and-calculation/ "Z-Spread: Definiti...

Till now we have looked at the spot rates and we also learned about how to [construct spot rate curv...

Once we have the [**spot rate curve**](https://financetrain.com/bootstrapping-spot-rate-curve-zero-c...

We have seen that a [bond can be valued using spot rates](https://financetrain.com/how-to-price-a-bo...