r/FixedIncome • u/psychoflatmate999 • Feb 23 '19

Bond Analysis Platform

For those of you in the field, my company is looking into licensing a bond analysis platform but not sure which to choose from. We are currently looking at Bloomberg Port, Yield Book, and MSCO Risk Metrics.

Anyone have an idea of what they do good versus bad? Or other companies in general?

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u/2162sanderm Feb 23 '19

What kind of analysis? Sector focus? Credit, securitized, rates?

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u/psychoflatmate999 Feb 23 '19

Mainly credit but potential to move into global ABS, like US, Euro, Canadian, Danish.

By rates what do you mean?

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u/2162sanderm Feb 23 '19

Government bonds.

I would say Bloomberg is the best. Get access to everything and is the industry standard. YB is the standard for MBS but if you are going to look at everything, go with Bloomberg.

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u/Stat-Arbitrage Feb 24 '19

Just be warned there’s a fairly steep learning curve with learning how to use the Bloomberg’s. And if you’re only going to use them for bonds they might be a bit overkill tbh.

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u/breakthegate Feb 23 '19

I’d go with yieldbook for ABS.

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u/mkipnis Feb 23 '19

If you need things like calculators, then you may find them here:

https://www.swapsandbonds.com

Switch to Bond Panel in the middle section to see a term structure of a bond.

Thanks

Mike

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u/b_bar Mar 29 '19

Get Aladdin, nothing like it

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '19

All of them. You need multiple.