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Fixed Income
Mathematics
FRANK J. FABOZZI
FRANCESCO A. FABOZZI
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To my wife, Donna
—Frank J. Fabozzi
Preface ix
Fifth Versus Fourth Edition xi
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Part One
PART Two
Part Three
PART Four
vii
Part Five
PART Six
Part Seven
PART Eight
PART Nine
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Chapter 28: Holdings-Based Performance Attribution Analysis 427
Chapter 29: Returns-Based Style Attribution Analysis 445
PART Ten
Index 579
In the past four decades, participants in the fixed-income markets have been
introduced to new analytical frameworks for analyzing fixed-income securities
and formulating fixed-income portfolio strategies. In discussing fixed-income
securities and strategies, we often hear terms such as model duration, empiri-
cal duration, effective duration, spread duration, positive and negative convexity,
option-adjusted spread, duration times spread, prepayment rates, spot rates, for-
ward rates, yield volatility, lattice model, value-at-risk, factor models, optimiza-
tion, simulation, machine learning, fat tails, and default correlation, and the list
goes on. What do these concepts mean? Why are these concepts useful in the
analysis of fixed-income securities and the formulation of fixed-income strate-
gies? Moreover, what are the dangers of using these concepts without a complete
understanding of what they mean and their limitations?
Fixed Income Mathematics: Analytical and Statistical Techniques not only
explains these and many other important concepts that players in the bond market
need to know, but also sets forth the foundation needed to understand them, their
computation, their limitations, and their application to fixed-income analysis and
portfolio management. It begins with the basic concepts of the mathematics of
finance (the time value of money) and systematically builds on these, taking you
through the state-of-the-art methodologies for evaluating fixed-income securities
with embedded options: mortgage-backed securities (mortgage pass-through
securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and stripped mortgage-backed secu-
rities). The concepts are illustrated with numerical examples and graphs. The mate-
rial is self-contained and requires only a basic knowledge of elementary algebra
to understand.
Frank J. Fabozzi
Francesco A. Fabozzi
ix
The fourth edition of the book contained eight parts and 31 chapters as shown in the table
following:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Overview of Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives
xi
The fifth edition has 10 parts and 35 chapters. The 15 chapters that are almost identical
to the chapters in the fourth edition (shown in parentheses is the chapter number in the fourth
edition) are:
The 9 substantially revised chapters are (shown in parentheses is the chapter number
in the fourth edition):
The following four chapters, which provide background material that appeared in
the fourth edition, have been removed and are available online:
The first edition of this book was published in 1993. Several individuals assisted
in various ways in subsequent editions of the book, and we acknowledge them
below:
• Jan Mayle and Dragomir Krgin provided information on the day count
conventions discussed in Chapter 5.
• Chapter 19 on interest rate modeling is coauthored with Gerald W.
Buetow, Jr. (BFRC Services), Bernd Hanke (BFRC Services), and
Brian J. Henderson (School of Business, The George Washington
University).
• Parts of Chapter 21 on valuing bonds with embedded options draws
from the work of Frank Fabozzi with Andrew Kalotay (Andrew Kalotay
Associates) and George Williams.
• Chapter 24 benefitted from discussions and feedback about liquidity
measures provided by Stefano Pasquale (BlackRock) and Harshdeep
Singh Ahluwalia (Vanguard).
• The illustration of the Campisi Attribution Model in Chapter 28 was
provided by Bruce J. Feibel (State Street).
• The illustration of attribution analysis of a hypothetical UK corporate
bond/credit portfolio in the online supplement C was prepared by René
Alby (Insight Investment).
• Chapter 29 was coauthored with Gueorgui S. Konstantinov (LBBW
Asset Management).
• In Chapter 32, the illustration of the Axioma Factor-Based Fixed
Income Risk Model developed by Qontigo’s Analytics Research group
was provided by Bill Morokoff (Qontigo).
• Amundi Asset Management fixed-income multifactor risk model
described and illustrated in Chapter 32, was provided by Amina Cherief
and Mohamed Ben Slimane (Amundi Asset Management).
• In Chapters 17 and 34 we used the software by Portfolio Visualizer
(https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/).
xv
Before the 1980s, the analysis of fixed-income securities was relatively simple. In
an economic environment that exhibited relatively stable interest rates, investors
purchased fixed-income securities intending to hold them to maturity. Yield to
maturity was used as a proxy measure of their relative value. Risk was gauged in
terms of default risk based on the credit rating assigned by the major credit-rating
agencies. When a fixed-income security was callable, a second measure—yield to
call—was used to assess its relative value. For a callable bond, the long-standing
rule of thumb for a conservative investor at the time was to select the lower of the
yield to maturity and the yield to call as the potential return. Moreover, prior to the
1980s, there was little trading of fixed-income securities. The strategy was simply
a buy-and-hold strategy.
Those days of reliance on simple analytics to manage a fixed-income port-
folio are gone. This is because fixed-income portfolios are actively traded, requir-
ing the use of analytics that draw from the fields of statistics, data science,
mathematics, and operations research. Moreover, prior to the 1970s, corporate
bond issuers were primarily those with an investment-grade rating. Non-investment-
grade corporate bonds that were traded were those of one-time investment-grade
bond issues that were subsequently downgraded, referred to as fallen angels. In
1977, Bear Stearns underwrote non-investment-grade corporate bonds, popularly
referred to as junk bonds and high-yield bonds, with bond market participants
seeing opportunities to enhance returns by constructing a diversified portfolios of
such issues despite higher default risk. Other market participants developed credit
analytics to identify junk bond issuers that were candidates for an upgraded rating,
thereby enhancing returns. In fact, 6 years after the Bear Stearns underwriting of
the first junk bond, roughly a third of all corporate bonds were non-investment
grade.1 Investing in non-investment-grade corporate bonds made investors recog-
nize the need to forecast default rates for a diversified portfolio of such bonds and
recovery rates.
The need for more rigorous analytics became clear with the development of
the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market. When the first MBS were issued
in 1968, these securities were acquired primarily because of their greater offered
yield than Treasury securities, and they were not traded actively. Purchasing MBS
based purely on a potential higher yield than Treasury securities was clearly naive.
1. Jared Cummans, “A Brief History of Bond Investing,” BondFunds.com, October 1, 2014. Available
at http://bondfunds.com/education/a-brief-history-of-bond-investing/.
Once the concept of prepayment risk was understood and that different MBS issues
backed by different pools of mortgages paid at different prepayment speeds, the
importance of prepayment modeling in the selection of the specific MBS to include
in a portfolio made investors realize the need to bring in statistical modeling and
ushered in the individuals trained in mathematics, statistics, and physics. The
modeling of prepayments became even more important with the development of
mortgage-derivative products (collateralized mortgage obligations and mortgage
strips) where the pricing of some of these products is highly sensitive to changes
in prepayment rates and interest rates. Although the initial MBS issues were viewed
as having the same credit risk as U.S. Treasuries, in the late 1980s, MBS issued
by private entities, referred to a nonagency MBS, began to appear. The pricing of
nonagency MBS made investors realize the need for not only modeling prepay-
ments but also forecasting default rates and recovery rates.
A look at the history of interest rates and the properties of a bond’s price
volatility provides insights into the need for analytics beyond those used in tradi-
tional fixed-income analytics. Let’s look at 30-year Treasury yields in the follow-
ing 3 years:
1977: 7.8%
1981: 15.21% (historical high)
2021: 1.90%
Let’s suppose that a 30-year Treasury bond was purchased in each year with a
coupon rate equal to the yield. As explained in Chapter 5, each bond would trade
at par value or 100. Suppose that after the bond is purchased, interest rates increase
by 50 basis points.2 The new market price, the change in the price, and the percent-
age price change are shown below:
Percentage
Yield/Coupon Initial New Yield New Price Price
Year Rate (%) Price ($) (%) Price ($) Change ($) Change (%)
Look at the price sensitivity of the three bonds. In the historical high interest-
rate environment of 1981, a 50 basis point change would have resulted in a percent-
age price change of only about half of 1977, about a third of that of 2021, and
almost triple that of the lowest of the three yields in this illustration. This follows
from a property of the price sensitivity of a bond described in Chapter 13: for a
given maturity, the lower the market yield, the greater is the price volatility. As
interest rates decline, bond portfolio managers focused increasingly on measures
of interest-rate sensitivity, the two most popular measures being duration and
convexity (the subject of Chapters 13 and 14).
3. As one well-known bond markets analytics guru once remarked: “At one time we hired salespeople
based on their ability to drink with clients. Now we hire them based on their ability to solve dif-
ferential equations.”
turn of the century, increasingly research has investigated whether the same factors
that drive equity returns also drive corporate bond returns.
Clearly, to be successful as a fixed-income portfolio manager, one needs an
understanding of the fundamentals of bond analytics, probability theory, statistics
(including financial econometrics and machine learning), and operations research
(optimization and Monte Carlo simulation).
in Part Eight. We conclude Part Six with an explanation of how to value floating-
rate securities (Chapter 22). These securities often have call and put provisions, as
well as caps and floors. We begin with a description of spread measures for floating-
rate securities (e.g., spread for life, adjusted simple margin, adjusted total margin,
and discount margin) and then explain their price-volatility characteristics. The
lattice method described in Chapter 21 is then applied to value three complex float-
ing-rate securities (a range note, a step-up callable note, and a callable capped
floating-rate bond). We also explain how to analyze an inverse-floating-rate security.
Part Seven covers measures of credit risk and liquidity risk. Credit-risk con-
cepts and measures are covered in Chapter 23. The measures include credit default
risk and credit spread risk. Statistical models for predicting corporate bankruptcy
(e.g., multiple discriminant analysis, linear probability model, probit regression
model, and logit regression model) are explained. Other important concepts cov-
ered in Chapter 23 include the statistical concepts of default correlation and copula
and the analytical concepts of credit spread duration and duration times spread.
The deteriorating liquidity in the bond market due to dealers withdrawing capital
commitments to this market has heightened the concern about liquidity risk. In
Chapter 24 we first define (or at least provide the general properties) of liquidity
and then explain the relationship between liquidity and transaction costs (i.e.,
investment delay cost, opportunity cost, and market [price] impact cost). We then
describe the challenges to measuring liquidity and metrics proposed by market
professionals and academics for measuring the liquidity of individual financial
instruments and portfolios.
The analysis of securitized products is the subject of the three chapters in
Part Eight. Chapter 25 explains the cash-flow characteristics of fixed-rate level-
payment mortgage loans. In Chapter 26 we show how to estimate the cash flow for
the largest sector in the securitized market, residential mortgage-backed securities
(RMBS). The pool of residential mortgage loans is used as collateral for the cre-
ation of these securities. How to analyze agency MBS, explaining the traditional
analysis of this product versus the Monte Carlo method for doing so, is the subject
of Chapter 27.
Although the risk-adjusted return measures described in Chapter 11 provide
a starting point for assessing the performance of a bond portfolio manager, these
measures fail to identify the reasons why a portfolio manager may have matched,
outperformed, or underperformed a benchmark. The decomposition of perfor-
mance results to explain why the results were achieved is called performance
attribution analysis. The two most common approaches to performance attribution
models are the holdings-based attribution approach and the returns-based style
attribution approach. The two chapters in Part Nine describe these two approaches,
Chapter 28 covering holdings-based attribution and Chapter 29 returns-based attri-
bution.
The last part of the book, Part Ten, explains statistical and optimizations
techniques. This part begins by describing probability distributions (Chapter 30).
Regression analysis, the major statistical tool employed in bond analysis, as well
as the steps in applying regressions analysis (i.e., model selection, model estimation,
and model testing), is the subject of Chapter 31. Also covered in this chapter is
principal component analysis and its application to explaining yield-curve dynam-
ics and identifying bond risk factors. A description of multifactor risk models and
an illustration of how these models are used in portfolio construction are covered
in Chapter 32. Two tools from the field of operations research, Monte Carlo simu-
lation and optimization models, are the subjects of Chapters 33 and 34, respec-
tively. In Chapter 33 we describe the various methodologies for backtesting bond
portfolio strategies and explain why Monte Carlo simulation has several advantages
over other methodologies. The final chapter in the book, Chapter 35, describes
machine learning and how machine-learning algorithms provide bond portfolio
managers with the opportunity to use modern nonlinear and highly dimensional
techniques needed to build predictive models regarding information that contains
complex patterns that when properly analyzed can be used in formulating bond
investment strategies so as to enhance portfolio returns. To accomplish this, mem-
bers of the portfolio management team must be capable of analyzing both struc-
tured and unstructured data. Machine learning, which is a subfield of artificial
intelligence, provides the analytical tools for extracting insights from a wide range
of data sets.
The notion that money has a time value is one of the most basic concepts in finan-
cial analysis. Money has a time value because of the opportunities for investing
money at some interest rate. In the three chapters of Part One of this book, we
review the three fundamental concepts involved in understanding the time value
of money. First, we explain how to determine the future value of an investment.
In the next chapter, we explain the procedure for determining how much money
must be invested today (called the present value) in order to realize a specific
amount in the future. In the last section of this chapter we explain the special case
where continuous compounding is assumed. In Chapter 4 we show how to compute
the yield on any investment.
In terms of our original $1,000 investment, the $1,144.90 represents the fol-
lowing:
The interest of $4.90 in year 2 above the $70 interest earned on the original prin-
cipal of $1,000 is interest earned on interest.
11
P = $10,000,000; i = 0.087; N = 5.
FV = $10,000,000(1.087)5
= $10,000,000(1.5175665) = $15,175,665.
FV = $10,000,000(1.0925)5
= $10,000,000(1.5563500) = $15,563,500.
Illustration 2–3. Suppose that a life insurance company has guaranteed a pay-
ment of $14 million to a pension fund 4 years from now. If the life insurance
company receives a premium of $11 million and can invest the entire premium
for 4 years at an annual interest rate of 6.5%, will it have sufficient funds from
this investment to meet the $14 million obligation?
The future value of the $11 million investment at the end of 4 years is
$14,151,130, as shown below:
P = $11,000,000; i = 0.065; N = 4.
FV = $11,000,000(1.065)4
= $11,000,000(1.2864664) = $14,151,130.
After the division of Bristol House into two about 1684, the first four
occupants of the eastern half (Nos. 57–58) were[291] the Earl of Wiltshire,
the Earl of Stamford, Henry, Viscount Montagu, and the Portuguese Envoy.
Charles Powlett, afterwards second Duke of Bolton, second and
eldest surviving son of the first Duke, was born in 1661. During the lifetime
of his father he was known as the Earl of Wiltshire. He accompanied the
Prince of Orange on his expedition in 1688, having a few months previously
gone over to Holland, and was one of the advanced guard who entered
Exeter with him. He seems to have stood high in William’s favour. He
succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1699, and was made Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland in 1717. He continued to occupy a fairly prominent
place about the court until his death in 1722. His residence in Great Queen
Street began in 1684, or a little later, and he was still in occupation of the
house on 22nd April, 1689.[291]
Thomas Grey, second Earl of Stamford, born in 1654, was the
only son of Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby. He succeeded his
grandfather in the earldom in 1673. In 1681 he was arrested on a
charge of complicity in the Rye House plot, and remained in the
Tower until March, 1686. On the landing of the Prince of Orange he
took up arms in his favour, and afterwards was appointed to
numerous official positions, becoming Lord Lieutenant of
Grey. Devonshire, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and President of
the Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations. On the accession of
Anne, he was dismissed from all his offices, but afterwards regained his
position at the head of the Board of Trade. He died in 1720. His residence in
Great Queen Street must have terminated some time before 1703, at which
date “Henry Browne” is shown in occupation.
Henry Browne, fifth Viscount Montagu, was born some time before
1641.[292] He succeeded his brother Francis in the title in June, 1708. His
residence at the house in Great Queen Street commenced some time,
probably not long, before 1703,[293] and lasted at least until 1715,[294]
possibly until his death, which occurred in 1717 at Epsom.[295] He was
succeeded in the title by his son, Anthony, who three years later married
Barbara Webb, to whose mother, Lady Barbara Webb, daughter of Lord
Belasyse, the eastern half of Bristol House had come by way of bequest.
After the occupation by Lord Montagu the house was
used as the residence of the Portuguese Envoy.[296] The
earliest mention of him as occupying the house is dated 5th
March, 1718–9. How long the Embassy was situated here is
uncertain. The house is referred to in Sir Godfrey Kneller’s
will,[297] dated 27th April, 1723, as “now in the possession of
the Portugal Envoy.” In a codicil, dated 18th July, in the
same year, it is described as “now or late in the occupation of Browne.
the Portugal Envoy,” and Kneller states that the premises are
much out of repair, and that he proposes to spend a sum of £200 in works.
It would almost seem therefore that the envoy left the house between April
and July, 1723, and some confirmation of this suggestion is found in the fact
that in the Westminster sewer ratebook, dated 18th July, 1723, the name,
not of the Portuguese Envoy, but of Sir Godfrey Kneller, the owner, appears
for the house.
After the departure of the Portuguese Envoy, the house was used for
the purposes of the Great Wardrobe.[298] The parish ratebooks from 1730
(the earliest extant) until 1748 show “Thos. Dummer, Esq.,” the deputy[299]
of John, Duke of Montagu, keeper of the Great Wardrobe, as in occupation.
The occupants of Nos. 57–58 from the time of the Great Wardrobe
were as follows:—
Rivers House.
Frederick
Nassau de
Zuylestein,
Earl of
Rochford.