Fixed Income Securities

Catalog description

This course explores the most important issues in global debt markets. It describes fixed income securities and markets, develops tools for valuing these securities and managing their risk. The major topics include: 1. Fixed income instruments and basic yield concepts. 2. Risk management concepts such as duration, convexity, and value-at-risk. 3. Risk management tools such as interest rate futures, options, swaps, caps, and floors. 4. Models of interest rates such as one-factor and multi-factor models of interest rates. 5. Understanding credit risk in corporate bonds and prepayment risk in mortgages. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.