Fixed-income interview help... does anybody have any suggestions/experience?
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on 10/21/06 at 9:27am
I am going in for a final round interview at a bank that focuses primarily on fixed-income. The recruiter told me to prepare for 100% technical questions regarding DCM and FI, however, it feels as though there is so much to cover. Does anyone have any suggestions, experience, or knowledge of specific questions that will be asked? I would love to go in and nail all their questions, so any advice is much appreciated.





Re: Fixed-income interview help... does anybody have any suggest
I am going in for a final round interview at a bank that focuses primarily on fixed-income. The recruiter told me to prepare for 100% technical questions regarding DCM and FI, however, it feels as though there is so much to cover. Does anyone have any suggestions, experience, or knowledge of specific questions that will be asked? I would love to go in and nail all their questions, so any advice is much appreciated.
I'll give you a set of questions I got as well as what I heard other candidates in my final round got:
- What is duration? How is it calculated?
- Term structures? Yield curves, their shapes and
how do you make money on the various ones?
- What's the present yield curve look like here (Canada) and there? (USA)
- Tell me some of the different bonds you know about...what about their prices with respect to each other? (Plain vanilla/convertible/callable)
- If interest rates go up/down...what would you do with a bond that is presently variable in coupon rate that has a convert option to a fixed coupon bond?
- Show me how to do a DCF.
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have a strong view on global fixed income market
does anyone know of any
does anyone know of any websites/books that can help with these questions that monkeybusiness threw out? I'm on a buyside trading desk and feel that my knowledge of the markets is definitely not up to par. For my particular job, it really does not have to be ( a monkey can do it) but obviously I plan on moving up, doing something different, possibly moving to sell side at some point, so I need to learn as much as I can. any suggestions?
just google
just google, most of the info is easy to find.
Which spreadsheets
I also want to break into DCM. Apart from applying and applying, I am also learning somthing every day still. Can you please give a tip on which spreasheets and to which moments in financial statement analysis I shoul pay more attention to be able to handle DCM role, origination or structuring in particular?
Open to all, closed to prejudice
crap
I'm going for an interview too, but if they ask questions like these... i'm screwed
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...I trade US interest rate markets/FI...here is a list of books u should read if u want to further ur knowledge...
Fabozzi, US Treasury Securities and Derivatives
Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
Burghardt, The Treasury Bond Basis
Burghardt, The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook
...once u get done with those re-post and i'll give u more...
treasury associate interview
Does anyone have any suggestions about treasury associate interview?
Specific responsibilities will include: providing support
for existing businesses and trading strategies; facilitating the
implementation of new strategies; coordinating accounting, operations,
compliance, tax, and infrastructure issues; data analysis; and
development of systems specifications
any help would be appreciate. thank you