This unit covers the concepts required for investment in fixed income securities, managing bond portfolios and understanding debt markets. Topics covered include duration, convexity, interest rate risk, bond volatility and the term structure of interest rates. The more complex types of debt securities studied include mortgage backed securities, corporate bonds with embedded options such as convertible bonds and interest rate derivatives.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Finance |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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FINC5001 |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | James Cummings, james.cummings@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | James Cummings, james.cummings@sydney.edu.au |
Tutor(s) | Alex Luong, thanh.luong@sydney.edu.au |
Salaar Bin Tassadaq, salaar.bintassadaq@sydney.edu.au | |
Adam Corbett, adam.corbett@sydney.edu.au | |
Junwu Chen, jun.w.chen@sydney.edu.au | |
MD Ahasan Sarkar, ahasan.habib@sydney.edu.au | |
Clement Peng, clement.peng@sydney.edu.au | |
James Cummings, james.cummings@sydney.edu.au |