Fixed Income Securities: Tools for Today's Markets, 4th Edition
by Bruce Tuckman, Angel Serrat · Wiley
The standard practitioner-quant text: arbitrage-free pricing, DV01 and key-rate durations, convexity, post-crisis OIS discounting and multi-curve construction, plus repo, swaps, futures and mortgages, worked through real market data. Requires comfort with calculus. The book that rates desks and quant candidates are actually told to read.
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