Building Laddered Bond Portfolios for Risk Management

Course Overview

Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over laddered bond portfolios. Models supporting the financial and banking practice discipline fail quietly, and usually at the worst moment. Plans for this aspect of financial and banking practice often fail at the handover point between functions. It concentrates on the parts of laddered bond portfolios that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Participants gain a realistic view of what the financial and banking practice discipline costs and what it returns. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place this part of financial and banking practice among the areas with the widest performance spread. The programme works equally well for those formalising laddered bond portfolios for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this strand of financial and banking practice hard in practice. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this aspect of financial and banking practice ready to put in front of a decision maker.