Sunil Kumar Parameswaran

Sunil K. Parameswaran is the Director & CEO of Tarheel Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India, a corporate training and management consultancy firm set up by him in 2004.

Sunil is a Visiting Faculty at some of the leading business schools in India, where he anchors courses in the area of Finance. His primary areas of interest are Securities Markets; Financial Derivatives; Fixed Income Securities; and International Finance.

For the past 16 years Sunil has been active as a corporate trainer and management consultant. He has delivered training programs on Global Securities Markets and Global Banking to some of the multinational IT firms located in India. Sunil also has over 25 years of teaching experience and has taught at leading business schools in the U.S., Singapore, Australia, and India.

Sunil obtained his Ph.D in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina U.S.A. He obtained his M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi.

A prolific writer, he has published several books, on Financial Derivatives, with McGraw-Hill in India and in Singapore, and on Financial Instruments with John Wiley in Singapore and in India. His book Fundamentals of Financial Instruments, published by John Wiley is available on Amazon.

His most recent book is Fixed Income Securities: Concepts and Applications, published by DeG Press, Boston. It covers the entire fixed income canvas including plain vanilla bonds; yield measures; duration, convexity and immunization; floating rate bonds; money markets; mortgage loans and mortgage backed securities; fixed income futures and options; bonds with embedded options; and interest rate and credit default swaps. The book makes extensive use of Excel to illustrate bond valuation and applications. It also relies heavily on the binomial model of option pricing to value bond options and bonds with embedded options.