by Dennis Schroers
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Suggested foundations for rates and fixed income and probability and statistical reasoning. Specialist prerequisites vary by paper.
Understand discounting in a stochastic-rate model.
Translate yield movements into first-order price risk.
Read the distributions and expectations used in probabilistic arguments.
Interpret expectations after information is observed.
Build a consistent discount curve.
Study a tractable mean-reverting rate model.
Assess uncertainty rather than treating an estimate as a fact.
Move from conditioning and expected values to timed problems with a defensible solution.