The objectives of this course are to: (1) describe important fixed income securities and markets, and (2) develop tools for valuing fixed income securities and managing interest rate risk. The course covers traditional bonds and term structure concepts as well as fixed income derivatives and interest rate modeling. The study of fixed income securities is quantitative by nature and the material in this course is very analytical.
The content is composed of the following chapters: (1) the basic of fixed income instrument and markets, financial innovation method; (2) Yield to maturity, interest rate maturity structure, ant its theory; (3) Pricing of treasury, corporate bond, option-embed bond, Z-spread, OAS; binomial pricing method; (4) Measurement of interest rate risk, risk management, duration, convexity; (5) Bond portfolio management, (6) Interest rate derivatives, etc.
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