Financial Math Made Simple: Rates, Bonds, and Yields 2026

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to financial math, covering essential calculations and concepts used by professionals in capital markets and quantitative finance. You will learn how to calculate interest rates, compound rates, bond prices, bond yields, and interest yields, all of which are fundamental to fixed income investments and financial decision-making.

The program explores the time value of money, a core principle in finance, and demonstrates how it applies to bond valuation, pricing, and return calculations across a wide range of fixed income instruments (bonds). These concepts are widely used in bond investing, bond trading, and fixed income portfolio management.

You will gain a clear understanding of what bonds are, the types of bonds, and how fixed income securities function within the broader bond market. The course also explains how to invest in fixed income securities, evaluate bond prices, and analyze returns across different fixed income assets.

In addition, the course introduces concepts used in financial derivatives, helping you understand how pricing, yields, and rates are applied in real-world financial markets.

Course Structure

This course consists of 15 modules, organized into 3 sections:

• Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money

• Debt Security Pricing and Bond Valuation

• Bond Yields, Interest Yields, and Rates of Return

  
  

The course includes approximately 2.5 hours of video content, along with supplementary PDF materials to support learning and reinforce key financial math concepts.

More about this course and Starweaver

This course is led by a seasoned capital markets industry practitioner and executive with many years of hands-on, in-the-trenches financial markets sales, trading and analysis work. It has been designed, produced and delivered by Starweaver. Starweaver is one of the most highly regarded, well-established training providers in the world, providing training courses to many of the leading financial institutions and technology companies, including:

Ahli United Bank; Mashreqbank; American Express; ANZ Bank; ATT; Banco Votorantim; Bank of America; Bank of America Global Markets; Bank of America Private Bank; Barclay Bank; BMO Financial Group; BMO Financial Services; BNP Paribas; Boeing; Cigna; Citibank; Cognizant; Commerzbank; Credit Lyonnais/Calyon; Electrosonic; Farm Credit Administration; Fifth Third Bank; GENPACT; GEP Software; GLG Group; Hartford; HCL; HCL; Helaba; HSBC; HSBC Corporate Bank; HSBC India; HSBC Private Bank; Legal & General; National Australia Bank; Nomura Securities; PNC Financial Services Group; Quintiles; RAK Bank; Regions Bank; Royal Bank of Canada; Royal Bank of Scotland; Santander Corporate Bank; Tata Consultancy Services; Union Bank; ValueMomentum; Wells Fargo; Wells Fargo India Solutions; Westpac Corporate Bank; Wipro; and, many others.

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