Master fixed income, bond valuation, yield analysis, and portfolio management skills used in modern financial markets.
Learn how bonds, interest rates, repo markets, and fixed income instruments drive investment, banking, and risk management decisions.
This Specialization provides a practical learning path for understanding bond markets, fixed income securities, bond ETFs, treasury instruments, corporate bonds, repo transactions, and portfolio strategies. You’ll learn how bonds are priced and traded, how yields influence investment decisions, and how interest rate movements affect bond values and portfolio performance.
Across the courses, you’ll build skills in bond valuation, yield curve analysis, duration, convexity, PVBP, credit risk, spot rates, forward rates, repo pricing, collateral management, structured finance, and fixed income portfolio construction. You’ll also explore professional tools and concepts such as swaps, FRAs, embedded options, binomial trees, mortgage-backed securities, and liability-driven investing
By the end of the Specialization, you’ll be able to evaluate fixed income investments, interpret yield and credit market signals, analyze repo and funding transactions, and apply practical bond portfolio management techniques relevant to investment banking, asset management, treasury, risk analysis, and financial markets roles.
Applied Learning Project
Learners will complete practical fixed income projects focused on bond pricing, yield analysis, duration and convexity measurement, repo transaction analysis, and portfolio risk evaluation. These projects help learners apply market-based techniques to assess bond investments, interpret interest rate movements, compare fixed income instruments, and solve authentic finance problems faced by analysts, investors, and treasury professionals.
