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Jul 04, 2024
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University of Alberta Calendar 2024-2025
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FIN 618 - Fixed Income Course Career Graduate Units 3 Approved Hours 3-0-0 Fee index 6 Faculty Business Department Department of Finance Typically Offered either term
Description This course covers markets for interest rate-paying securities. The valuation of such securities will be covered, as will tools and techniques for the management of interest rate risk. This will include a discussion of the pricing and uses of various interest rate derivative securities, such as swaps, options on swaps (“swaptions”), futures, and forward rate agreements. Further, aspects of the underwriting process, of interest to potential issuers of such securities, will be discussed. Prerequisite: FIN 601 or FIN 501 or FIN 503.
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