Fixed Income Fundamentals

Name: Fixed Income Fundamentals
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Master the fundamentals of fixed income to understand the key products, players, and calculations in the bond market.

Learn the essential features of bonds, including par value, coupons, and yield curves
Understand how to price bonds, calculate accrued interest, and analyze credit spreads
Explore risk measures like duration, convexity, and price sensitivity to yield changes

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Fixed Income Fundamentals

Overview

Fixed Income Fundamentals Course Overview

In this Fixed Income Fundamentals course, we will explore the basic products and players in fixed income markets. We will introduce key bond features such as par value, coupon, yield curves, and credit spreads. Then, we will calculate the price of a bond using discounted cash flows and the relationship between a bond’s price and its yield. Clean prices, dirty prices, accrued interest, and day count are other fixed income topics discussed in this online course. Finally, we will explore bond risk measures, including Macaulay duration, modified duration, dollar duration, and convexity. We will then calculate the price sensitivity to yield changes using these risk measures.

This course uses real market data and examples of the most common Refinitiv screens for bonds. A wide range of exercises and real-life case studies are incorporated in the course to directly apply your knowledge on the job. This online course can be taken on demand from anywhere in the world.

Fixed Income Fundamentals Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

Define the key concepts of the basic fixed income instrument – bonds
Explain who buys bonds, who issues bonds, and the bond market
Examine the concepts of yield, coupon, and day count
Discuss the yield curve, credit spreads, and what they represent
Calculate the price of a bond and explain the relationship between price and yield
Measure the yield sensitivity of a bond by using duration and convexity

Who Should Take This Course?

This Fixed Income Fundamentals course is perfect for anyone who wants to build up their understanding of capital markets. This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to begin a career in fixed income, equity, sales and trading, or other areas of finance with the fundamental knowledge of fixed income.

Prerequisite Courses

Recommended courses to complete before taking this course.

Introduction to Capital Markets

What you'll learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

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Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA®) Certification

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

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Financial Planning & Wealth Management Professional (FPWMP®) Certification

Skills Learned Financial Learning, Business Development, Investment Management, Practice Management, Relationship Management
Career Prep Financial Planner, Investment Advisor, Portfolio Manager

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Risk Management Specialization

Skills You’ll Gain Risk Identification, Regulatory Analysis, Risk Measurement, Risk Mitigation
Great For: Market Risk Analyst, Credit Risk Analyst, Compliance Officer, consulting, Enterprise Risk Manager, Audit

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What Our Members Say

It's easy to understand and helpful for those who have little knowledge about the subject and a good reminder for those who already know about the bond market.

Alvin Tezi

Very good explanation

Many concepts were clearly explained. Well done Sir!!!!

Hariharan Sairam

Interesting and I really want to forward my knowledge with CFI

Mohamed Kanneh

Superb

It helped me to clear my fundamentals

Sukanto Chakraborty

Fixed Income

Teaches you more in the financial market of Bonds Maths and equity, FED monetary policy and yield curve Analysis. Has enhanced my investment Banking Skills. Thanks

Teka Derick Tikum

Fixed Income fundamentals

The course has been very useful in value addition to my knowledge. May I request to please send me a certificate of completion of this course as the earlier one sent by you is misplaced on my Laptop. Thanks

Ranjan Sethi

Simple and precise

I learned fixed income during training school but didn't get as much clarity as I did get from this short course. Thanks a million

Iboro Ekiko

Fantastic Kick-off

Great course for the ones who are new to the topic. Clear explanation of duration and pricing. Bloomberg snapshots also make it clear to understand what a bond and terms look like. Thank you for this opportunity.

Ozan Toros

The best online financial training course available.

VISHNU UNNIKRISHNAN

Fixed income

The course gave me the necessary challenges, and the lecturers presented the course excellently. However, the downloadable notes were too summarized. They had little help in the qualifying test.

ngoni simon maiwasha

Fixed Income Fundamentals

Excellent course....content is very good and also the presentation .

Rishi shingala

Helpful

It has a very interesting exercice. This course helped me to understand some basic notions of the Fixed income market, in comprhensive method.

Junior KETO NSINGANI

Excellent Course Content and Motivating Methodology

I just completed one free course Fixed Income Fundamentals and enjoyed the learning thoroughly. The instructor videos are professionally prepared, well presented and easy to understand. The best part is the course is interesting and provides practical training on using the tools and techniques. This is motivating and immensely satisfying. I am looking forward to receiving the digital certificate for this course and then buying the full course set.

Zakiya Abdul Samad

Fixed Income Fundamentals

Despite the fact that I worked as a Financial Planner for many years during my previous work experience In Italy, the course has been very good because I have the possibility to study more in debt the topic. In addition, also the teacher was very clear during the explanation.

Davide Carisi, MBA

i'm happy

thanks for being with me along my lessons and exams I made again

KANNY SIBOZA

Excellent Aid and Development

This is a blessing to this generation, especially for the finance profession. Top notch resources. Thumbs up.

Akintayo Alo

Afonso Cardoso de Menezes

amazing course A+++

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Fixed Income Fundamentals

Fixed Income Fundamentals Course Overview

Fixed Income Fundamentals Learning Objectives

Who Should Take This Course?

Fixed Income Fundamentals

What you'll learn

Fixed Income Overview

Coupon and Yield

Bond Prices and Yields

Bond Risk Measures

Summary

Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA®) Certification

Financial Planning & Wealth Management Professional (FPWMP®) Certification

Risk Management Specialization

What Our Members Say

Alvin Tezi

Hariharan Sairam

Mohamed Kanneh

Sukanto Chakraborty

Teka Derick Tikum

Ranjan Sethi

Iboro Ekiko

Ozan Toros

VISHNU UNNIKRISHNAN

ngoni simon maiwasha

Rishi shingala

Junior KETO NSINGANI

Zakiya Abdul Samad

Davide Carisi, MBA

KANNY SIBOZA

Akintayo Alo

Afonso Cardoso de Menezes

Jonathan Pike

VINEESH RAMESH

Shivanagaraju bavisetti

Uls Manikanta

Yang Zhou

sumit trivedi

HARSHAL KIRNAYKE

Rosalia Nkhoma

Frequently Asked Questions