Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Fixed-Income Portfolio Management – offered by AnalystPrep

Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Fixed-Income Portfolio Management – offered by AnalystPrep

Reading 19: Overview of Fixed-Income Portfolio Management

Los 19 a: Discuss roles of fixed-income securities in portfolios and how fixed-income mandates may be classified

Los 19 b: Describe fixed-income portfolio measures of risk and return as well as correlation characteristics

Los 19 c: Describe bond market liquidity, including the differences among market sub-sectors, and discuss the effect of liquidity on fixed-income portfolio management

Los 19 d: Describe and interpret a model for fixed-income returns

Los 19 e: Discuss the use of leverage, alternative methods for leveraging, and risks that leverage creates in fixed-income portfolios

Los 19 f: Discuss differences in managing fixed-income portfolios for taxable and tax-exempt investors

Reading 20: Liability-Driven and Index-Based Strategies

Los 20 a: Describe liability-driven investing

Los 20 b: Evaluate strategies for managing a single liability

Los 20 c: compare strategies for a single liability and for multiple liabilities, including alternative means of implementation

Los 20 d: Describe the construction, benefits, limitations, and risk–return characteristics of a laddered bond portfolio

Los 20 e: Evaluate liability-based strategies under various interest rate scenarios and select a strategy to achieve a portfolio’s objectives

Los 20 f: Explain risks associated with managing a portfolio against a liability structure

Los 20 g: Discuss bond indexes and the challenges of managing a fixed-income portfolio to mimic the characteristics of a bond index

Los 20 h: Compare alternative methods for establishing bond market exposure passively

Los 20 i: Discuss criteria for selecting a benchmark and justify the selection of a benchmark

Reading 21: Yield Curve Strategies

Los 21 a: Describe the factors affecting fixed-income portfolio returns due to a change in benchmark yields

Los 21 b, c, d, e: Static Yield Curve

Los 21 f: Discuss yield curve strategies across currencies

Los 21 g: Evaluate the expected return and risks of a yield curve strategy

Reading 22: Fixed Income Active Management: Credit Strategies

Los 22 a: Describe risk considerations for spread-based fixed-income portfolios

Los 22 b: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of credit spread measures for spread-based fixed-income portfolios and explain why option-adjusted spread is considered the most appropriate measure

Los 22 c: Discuss bottom-up approaches to credit strategies

Los 22 d: Discuss top-down approaches to credit strategies

Los 22 e, f: Static Yield Curve

Los 22 g: Discuss the use of credit default swap strategies in active fixed-income portfolio management

Los 22 h: Discuss various portfolio positioning strategies that managers can use to implement a specific credit spread view

Los 22 i: Discuss considerations in constructing and managing portfolios across international credit markets

Los 22 j: Describe the use of structured financial instruments as an alternative to corporate bonds in credit portfolios

Los 22 k: Describe key inputs, outputs, and considerations in using analytical tools to manage fixed-income portfolios

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