Fixed-Income Reference

Ladders & Model Review

Inspect scheduled payments, reinvestment assumptions, liability questions and validation records.

Bond Ladder Cash Flows: Separate Coupons from Returned Principal

Build a dated ladder receipt schedule, reconcile its totals and distinguish a ladder that runs off from one that reinvests maturing principal.

Reinvestment and Roll-Down: Two Different Return Assumptions

Trace coupon reinvestment and maturity-related repricing separately, and distinguish an unchanged-curve scenario from a promised future return.

Ladders & Model Review

Liability Matching: Compare Dates Before Comparing Duration

Build a simple cash-flow match, distinguish it from duration matching and identify the assumptions that can leave an apparent surplus unavailable for payment.

Ladders & Model Review

Fixed-Income Model Validation: Prove the Calculation and Its Limits

Build an independent review of cash-flow construction, compounding, library signs, numerical behavior and the claims a narrow bond model can support.