FN 907A/908A Fixed Income Securities
The lecture material in this course provides an analysis of various fixed income products and their trading and pricing. Examined are their applications for achieving financial goals including capital formation, interest rate risk management, and portfolio diversification. Topics covered include treasury, agency, corporate, and municipal bonds, floating rate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, term structure modeling, immunization, credit risk management, credit derivatives, and interest rate derivatives including swaps, caps and floors, and swaptions. The lecture material also includes the valuation of fixed income securities, the management and hedging of fixed income portfolios, and the valuation and usage of fixed income derivatives. Some of the contracts analyzed in the course include pure discount bonds, coupon bonds, callable bonds, floating rate notes, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, swaptions, inflation-indexed bonds, and convertible bonds.
Prerequisite
FN 902 Investment & Asset Pricing,
FN 904 Quantitative Research Methods II (Financial Econometrics), and
FN 912 Empirical Methods in Finance