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Spring 2013
Mar 28, 2024
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FINC 310 - Fixed Income
Fixed income (or credit) markets are highly competitive and constantly evolving, and the field of fixed income securities is complex and quantitatively demanding. It is rich with opportunity for those skilled in the conceptual framework used for pricing and hedging fixed income securities. The course is based on the CFA Candidate Body of Knowledge©. It provides an overview of the financial system, the concept of market efficiency and characteristics common to all financial assets. It presents the basic features of debt securities, embedded option provisions, relationships among bond prices, spot rates, forward rates and yields, and it introduces the fundamental notion of arbitrage pricing in the context of securities with fixed cash flows. It describes various ways to measure the risks of investing in fixed income securities and factors determining yield spreads. Additional coverage includes demand and supply analysis of bond yields, theories of the term structure of interest rates, asset securitization, and active and passive bond investment strategies
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level FINC 331 Minimum Grade of D

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