Interest rate risk

Bank Management Strategies: Liquidity, Interest Rate, Credit, and Market Risk

Book: Financial Markets and Institutions, 11th Edition Author: Jeff Madura Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-133-94788-2

Chapter 19 is where the rubber meets the road. You know what banks are (Chapter 17) and how they are regulated (Chapter 18). Now the question is: how do bank managers actually run these things day to day? The answer involves juggling several types of risk at once while trying to maximize shareholder value.

Bond Valuation and Risk: How Bond Prices Move and Why

Book: Financial Markets and Institutions, 11th Edition Author: Jeff Madura Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-133-94788-2

Chapter 8 is where Madura gets into the math behind bond prices. If Chapter 7 was about the types of bonds, this chapter explains how to figure out what they are worth, why their prices change, and how investors manage the risk. It is the most technical chapter so far, but the concepts are fundamental to understanding how fixed-income investing works.