Overview
Intermediate Fixed Income Course Overview
This Intermediate Fixed Income course builds on the fixed income fundamentals and delves deeper into government & agency-issued debt, zeroes, floaters & linkers, and callables & putables. It provides knowledge on how they are priced with industry-relevant examples of each type of debt. You will have the opportunity to work through practice examples of certain types of debt and learn how to identify critical information on the Refinitiv Workspace. By the end of this course, you will have an enhanced understanding of fixed income products which will prepare you for learning advanced fixed income courses.
We will explore:
- Government, GSE, and SSA Debt
- Zeroes, Floaters, and Linkers
- Callables and Putables
Intermediate Fixed Income Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the different types of fixed income products, their issuers, and investors
- Understand in-depth about their pricing, duration, and convexity
- Understand how to calculate bond yields from Bloomberg
Intermediate Fixed Income is an elective course of CFI’s CMSA® program
CFI’s Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)® program covers all the basic, intermediate, and advanced topics about sales and trading, investment banking, and asset management. This program teaches you trading strategies used in the finance and capital markets industry. It is ideal for students who want to learn how to trade different asset classes. The program is completely online so that you can take it at your own pace, from anywhere in the world.
Common career paths for students who take the CMSA® are Sales & Trading, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Treasury, Risk Management, and other capital markets careers.
Who should take this CMSA® course?
This Intermediate Fixed Income course is perfect for anyone who wants to build up their understanding of fixed income products. This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to begin a career in the capital markets on the fixed income desk.
What you'll learn
Become a certified All Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)® Courses
Applied Fixed Income is part of the Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)® certification, which includes 36 courses.
- Skills Learned Trading strategies used in the finance and capital markets
- Career Prep Work in capital markets, whether on the buy-side or the sell-side
Path to certification
Prep courses
6 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
01 OptionalCore courses
8 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
02 RequiredElective courses
21 courses in advanced and intermediate levels.
03 RequiredGet certified
Submit your CMSA® checklist and order your certificate.
04
Required
Join our community
Get access to the Global Corporate Finance Society.
05
Optional
How the certification works
What our students say
Quite insightful but not well detailed
Oluwaseun Ayoola Williams
Bond valuation is interesting but complex to understand. The instructor makes the course plain sailing, which to us lessens the anxiety during the learning process. I will have to go back to the videos to continuously renew my learning experience.
Muyanja Ssenyonga
well presented but struggled with many concepts, after getting clarity the course was so clear.
