Spring 2027

Analysis of Fixed Income Securities

Analysis of Fixed Income Securities covers fixed income securities and derivatives, asset-backed/mortgage-backed securities, pricing and portfolio strategies, and term structure models.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ivan Shaliastovich

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.31 GPA, 53.8% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.67 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Utilize and be comfortable with the mathematics of fixed income markets.

  • Utilize appropriate tools and techniques, including various measures of duration and convexity, to make decisions about trading and hedging portfolios of fixed income securities.

  • Explain the structure and uses of fixed income derivative instruments, including options, forwards, and swaps.

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Prerequisites

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(FINANCE 700 and GEN BUS 704) or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

FINANCE 740

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.31 GPA, 53.8% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

IVAN SHALIASTOVICH is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.31 GPA, 53.8% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.67 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Fixed income securities and derivatives
  • Asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities
  • Pricing and portfolio strategies
  • Term structure models and analytical tools

Skills

  • Mathematics of fixed income markets
  • Trading and hedging portfolios using duration and convexity
  • Structure and uses of fixed income derivatives

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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FINANCE 740 · Spring 2027

Analysis of Fixed Income Securities

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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