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Preface

    About This Book
        Organization of the Document
        Expected Background

    Product Requirements
    Related Products
    Typographical Conventions

Mortgage-Backed Securities

    What Are Mortgage-Backed Securities?
    Using Fixed-Rate Mortgage Pool Functions
        Inputs to Functions
        Generating Prepayment Vectors
        Mortgage Prepayments
        Risk Measurement
        Mortgage Pool Valuation
        Computing Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS)
        Prepayments with Fewer Than 360 Months Remaining
        Pools with Different Numbers of Coupons Remaining

Debt Instruments

    Treasury Bills Defined
    Computing Treasury Bill Price and Yield
        Treasury Bill Repurchase Agreements
        Treasury Bill Yields

    Using Zero-Coupon Bonds
        Measuring Zero-Coupon Bond Function Quality
        Pricing Treasury Notes
        Pricing Corporate Bonds

    Stepped-Coupon Bonds
        Cash Flows from Stepped-Coupon Bonds
        Price and Yield of Stepped-Coupon Bonds

    Term Structure Calculations
        Computing Spot and Forward Curves
        Computing Spreads

Derivative Securities

    Pricing and Hedging
        Swap Pricing Assumptions
        Swap Pricing Example
        Portfolio Hedging

    Convertible Bond Valuation
    Treasury Bond Futures
        Theoretical Prices
        Implied Repo
        Hedge Parameters

Functions -- By Category

    Cash Flows
    Certificates of Deposit
    Convertible Bonds
    Derivative Securities
    Mortgage-Backed Securities
    Option Adjusted Spread Computations
    Stepped Coupon Bonds
    Treasury Bills
    Treasury Bond Futures
    Zero Coupon Instruments

Functions -- Alphabetical List

Glossary

Examples

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