Features of debt securities -- Risks associated with investing in bonds -- Overview of bond sectors and instruments -- Understanding yield spreads -- Introduction to the valuation of debt securities -- Yield measures, spot rates, and forward rates -- Introduction to the measurement of interest rate risk -- Term structure and volatility of interest rates -- Valuing bonds with embedded options -- Mortgage-backed sector of the bond market -- Asset-backed sector of the bond market -- Valuing mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities -- Interest rate derivative instruments -- Valuation of interest rate derivative instruments -- General principles of credit analysis -- Introduction to bond portfolio management -- Measuring a portfolio's risk profile -- Managing funds against a bond market index -- Portfolio immunization and cash flow matching -- Relative-value methodologies for global credit bond portfolio management -- International bond portfolio management -- Controlling interest rate risk with derivatives -- Hedging mortgage securities to capture relative value -- Credit derivatives in bond portfolio management

1. Fixed-income securities