How credit risk is measured, priced, and translated into expected returns. The analytical framework behind every lending and investing decision.
Credit investing comes down to one question: are you being compensated enough for the risk you're taking? Answering that requires understanding how yield is constructed, how losses materialise, and how to compare risk-adjusted outcomes across instruments and strategies.
These three lessons build the quantitative toolkit for evaluating debt investments—from decomposing a bond's yield into its component parts to modelling expected losses and measuring risk-adjusted performance.
Break down the components of debt yield—coupon, spread, OID, and total return. Understand yield to maturity, yield to worst, current yield, and how each metric applies across loans, bonds, and structured credit.
View LessonModel the cash flows a lender actually receives. Cover probability of default, loss given default, expected vs. unexpected loss, and recovery rate analysis—the building blocks of credit loss estimation.
View LessonBring yield and loss analysis together into a unified framework. Explore risk-adjusted spread, Sharpe ratios in credit, return on risk capital, and how investors compare opportunities across the credit spectrum on a consistent basis.
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