Fixed Income Securities

FINANCE 340 teaches analysis of fixed income and bond markets, including bond pricing, trading strategies, and risk management for government and corporate securities.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Adam Smedema4.1/5Erwan Quintin3.9/5Ken Bordes

Summary

1 / 3

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.46 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.36 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

Grade history

average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

FINANCE/​ECON 300, (MATH 213, 222, or 276) and (GEN BUS 307, 656,ACT SCI 654, 655,ECON 400, 410,STAT/​MATH 310,STAT 312, or333 or concurrent enrollment); or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree

Professors

Fall 2026
/5Adjusted rating
/5RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 4.82/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

No course-specific feedback yet.

/5Adjusted rating
/5RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 4.33/5 from 9 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ERWAN QUINTIN is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction34 / 407
LEC 002Classroom Instruction35 / 402
LEC 003Classroom Instruction61 / 660
LEC 004Classroom Instruction66 / 6610

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.46 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.36 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Government bonds and derivative securities
  • Repo financing, mortgage markets, and corporate bond default risk

Skills

  • Bond evaluation and portfolio trading/hedging
  • Bond pricing techniques
  • Trading strategies for mis-priced securities
  • Risk measurement and minimization

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Spring 2026

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

Higher than % of other courses in this group.

Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range

letter grades

More recorded grades than % of other courses in this group.

Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Selected offering source records
FINANCE 340 · Fall 2026

Fixed Income Securities

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
[
  {
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "semester": "1272",
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1272:233:024384",
    "course_id": "FINANCE 340",
    "course_uid": "course_d34765cb35457495176334ed",
    "term_id": "1272",
    "source_course_id": "024384",
    "source_subject_id": "233",
    "title": "Fixed Income Securities",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 3,
    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Model & dataset provenance
{
  "model": "nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
  "model_revision": "1355db6a052410cfd62085d94b58866fd0f2c3c5",
  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "d56c333f25b17247ff1827bb4bc8552bf3d25b2de48c3d80d9bc9d63efff3bdb",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
}