Fixed Income Securities

3 cr · Graduate

This course introduces students to a wide variety of fixed income securities and their markets, and prepares students for the fixed income area in CFA examinations. Topics covered include: debt securities, risks or investing in bonds, the pricing of fixed income securities, the measurement of interest rate risk, the term structure and volatility of interest rates, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, the valuation of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, credit analysis and interest rate derivatives, among other topics. Prerequisite FIN 7020 .