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Fixed-income risk: a roadmap of portfolio risks and strategies

Fixed-income risk: a roadmap of portfolio risks and strategies

Leon Diniz

The lesson wraps up the fixed-income section by mapping out the five risks investors face—market, cr...

riscos renda fixa

Duration and convexity: measuring bonds' sensitivity to interest rates

Duration and convexity: measuring bonds' sensitivity to interest rates

Leon Diniz

Lesson explains Macaulay duration as the weighted average timing of cash flows, modified duration as...

Convexidade

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

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

Leon Diniz

This lesson covers the main private fixed-income securities — CDBs, LCIs, LCAs and debentures — expl...

CDB debênture

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

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

Leon Diniz

Lesson on pricing floating-rate and hybrid government bonds: how the VNA works, the premium and disc...

titulos pos-fixados LFT

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

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

Leon Diniz

This lesson explains how to calculate the price of fixed-rate government bonds (LTN/Tesouro Prefixad...

ltn tesouro

Brazilian interest rates — Selic, CDI and the yield curve

Brazilian interest rates — Selic, CDI and the yield curve

Leon Diniz

This lesson introduces the main concepts behind interest rates in Brazil's financial markets, focusi...

juros selic CDI

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

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

Leon Diniz

This lesson provides an overview of the financial system and its role in the economy, covering the m...

finanças ativos agentes

How to Create Mind Maps for Your Project

How to Create Mind Maps for Your Project

Leon Diniz

Learn how to create effective mind maps to organize ideas, plan stages, stimulate creativity and imp...

mapa mental empreendedorismo

What is Payback and Discounted Payback

What is Payback and Discounted Payback

Leon Diniz

Understand the concept of Payback and Discounted Payback, how to calculate each method, their differ...

payback desconto

About Modified Internal Rate of Return (TIRM)

About Modified Internal Rate of Return (TIRM)

Leon Diniz

Discover what the Modified Internal Rate of Return (TIRM) is, how it works, its differences from the...

taxa matematica avaliacao

Knowing how to spend is more important than knowing how to invest

Knowing how to spend is more important than knowing how to invest

Leon

Between the ages of 15 and 25, many people ask themselves: "Where should I invest my money?" The an...

gastar investir

Analyzing your business with IRR and NPV: using Excel

Analyzing your business with IRR and NPV: using Excel

Leon

Analyzing your business with IRR and NPV using Excel: Learn how to use these financial metrics to ma...

tir excel vpl

The financial decision and the company

The financial decision and the company

Leon

In this new module we will focus on the company and how to apply our knowledge of financial mathemat...

finanças matemática

French System and American System of Loans

French System and American System of Loans

Leon

Today we will look at two very famous loan systems: the American and the French. For each situation...

matemática finanças empréstimo

Loans and how repayment works

Loans and how repayment works

Leon

Let's look at a loan moment by moment: its outstanding balance (or debt status), the interest paid, ...

matemática finanças empréstimo amortização

Deferred Uniform Sequences and their amounts

Deferred Uniform Sequences and their amounts

Leon

What if instead of bringing a uniform sequence to the present value, we want to know its amount?

finanças matemática

Uniform sequences in financial transactions

Uniform sequences in financial transactions

Leon

In this class we see how geometric progression facilitates financial calculations with uniform seque...

finanças matemática

How to calculate the internal rate of return: IRR

How to calculate the internal rate of return: IRR

Leon

The internal rate of return is extremely important as it can be used to evaluate an investment, so l...

matemática tir finanças