Bond Structures, Markets and Valuation
Analyse sovereign, corporate and international bonds from issue through trading and valuation.
How to prepare for the Investment Advice Diploma
Build UK regulation, integrity, investment, risk and tax first; then apply those foundations to the one technical option aligned with your role. The original multiple-choice practice tests knowledge, calculations and advisory judgement without reproducing recalled or secure CISI questions.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Compare coupon, redemption, security, ranking and covenant structures.
Exam cue: Read the terms and seniority.
Concept 2
Explain issuance and secondary-market execution.
Exam cue: Map cash flows.
Concept 3
Calculate and interpret prices, yields, duration and credit spreads.
Exam cue: Relate yield to price, credit and interest-rate risk.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Confusing coupon with yield.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Ignoring accrued interest.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Treating a secured bond as risk-free.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Memory anchors
Clean price
A bond price quoted excluding accrued interest.
Yield to maturity
The discount rate equating a bond's price with its contractual cash flows under stated assumptions.
Duration
A measure related to the timing of bond cash flows and sensitivity to yield changes.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What does a bond's nominal value determine most directly?
A £1,000 nominal bond pays a 6% annual coupon. What cash coupon is paid each year?
Answer all questions to submit.
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