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Fixed Income (Bond Market) Interview Preparation



Question: How do you get the bonds portfolio active return?

Answer: The difference between Portfolio’s actual return minus the benchmark (against which portfolios is tracked) is known as actual return.
Active return = Portfolio’s actual return – Benchmark’s actual return



Question: Which are the types of risk included in the interest rate risk for a bond?

Answer: Interest-rate risk is the risk associated with an adverse/major change in interest rates which includes
- Level risk
- Yield-curve risk.


Question: How can you measure the level risk?

Answer: To measure the level risk, we can use the duration.


Question: Which is the measure for the yield-curve risk?

Answer: Key rate duration is the most popular measure of yield-curve risk.

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