Articles and news about Financial Management

Futures Pricing and Hedging in Practice: Dollar, Index and DI

Equities: the stock market, B3, share classes and payouts

Duration and convexity: measuring bonds' sensitivity to interest rates

Private Fixed Income: CDBs, Debentures, FGC and the Tax Rules That Change the Game

Floating-Rate and Inflation-Linked Bonds: LFT (Tesouro Selic) and Tesouro IPCA+ (NTN-B)

Lesson on pricing floating-rate and hybrid government bonds: how the VNA works, the premium and discount on LFT (Tesouro Selic), the real interest rat...

Pricing Fixed-Rate Bonds: The Math Behind Brazil's Treasury Fixed-Rate Bond (LTN)

This lesson explains how to calculate the price of fixed-rate government bonds (LTN/Tesouro Prefixado) using the 252-business-day convention. It demon...

Brazilian interest rates — Selic, CDI and the yield curve

This lesson introduces the main concepts behind interest rates in Brazil's financial markets, focusing on the Selic rate and the CDI, and their role i...

The Financial System and Markets — An Overview of Players and Asset Types

This lesson provides an overview of the financial system and its role in the economy, covering the main participants in financial markets and their fu...