Quantitative Techniques for Debt Management (QDM)

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Training Program aimed to build capacity on key quantitative concepts in fixed income for debt managers, and for undertaking debt management operations.
Designed to enable participants to improve their analysis of potential financing options and to evaluate the pricing of loans and securities.
Helps debt managers understand relevant quantitative techniques in liability management operations, and options for developing and publishing yield curves when pursuing a benchmark issuance strategy.
Topic: Financial Sector Issues

Officials from finance ministries, treasury departments, debt management offices, and central banks.

Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, or equivalent experience, as well as at least two years of working experience in debt management.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Understand the characteristics of different debt management instruments in terms of their cashflows and be able to calculate price, yield, modified duration, and other metrics.
Understand the difference between forward, spot and par yields and be able to build basic yield curves using fitting techniques in Excel.
Understand how to actively manage the redemption profile with debt buybacks, reverse and switch auctions, including the pricing mechanics of such operations.
Demonstrate a knowledge of other relevant financial instruments for a debt manager, including repo, interest rate and exchange rate swaps.