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# Fitting Yield Curves to rates

Given rates and maturities, we can fit the yield curves with different techniques in Yields.jl.

Below, we specify that the rates should be interpreted as Continuously compounded zero rates:

using Yields

rates = Continuous.([0.01, 0.01, 0.03, 0.05, 0.07, 0.16, 0.35, 0.92, 1.40, 1.74, 2.31, 2.41] ./ 100)
mats = [1/12, 2/12, 3/12, 6/12, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, 30]

Then fit the rates under four methods:

• Nelson-Siegel

• Nelson-Siegel-Svennson

• Boostrapping with splines (the default Bootstrap option)

• Bootstrapping with linear splines

ns =  Yields.Zero(NelsonSiegel(),                   rates,mats)
nss = Yields.Zero(NelsonSiegelSvensson(),           rates,mats)
b =   Yields.Zero(Bootstrap(),                      rates,mats)
bl =  Yields.Zero(Bootstrap(Yields.LinearSpline()), rates,mats)

That's it! We've fit the rates using four different techniques. These can now be used in a variety of ways, such as calculating the present_value, duration, or convexity of different cashflows if you imported ActuaryUtilities.jl

A visualization of the different curves:

## Associated Pluto Notebook

This example, complete with the code to plot/animate the curves is in the notebook below. To use Pluto to run the notebook:

1. Open a Julia REPL and copy and paste the following:

# install these dependencies
using Pluto; Pluto.run()
1. In the Pluto window that opens, enter this URL into the Open from file: box:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaActuary/Learn/master/Yield_Curve_fitting.jl