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FIXED INCOME SECURITIES

FINANCE 340
Course Description

Analysis of fixed income, bond markets. Introduce tools for evaluating bonds and making decisions about trading and hedging portfolios of fixed income securities. Focus on government bonds and derivative securities. Consider basic ways to price bonds using techniques that are well established on Wall St. Introduces basic trading strategies based on exploiting mis-priced securities. Strategize ways to measure and minimize risk. Other topics include repo financing, mortgage markets, and basic issues involving default risk of corporate bonds.

Prerequisties
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall, Spring

Grade Point Average
3.42

3.78% from Historical

Completion Rate
95.83%

-1.12% from Historical

A Rate
58.33%

26.39% from Historical

Class Size
24

29.23% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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