Part 1: Markets, mechanisms, and basic tools -- An overview of fixed-income securities -- Organization and conduct of debt markets -- Treasury auctions and selling mechanisms -- Bond mathematics -- Yield-curve analysis-1 -- Yield-curve analysis-2 -- Part 2: Fixed-income markets and portfolio management -- Inflation-indexed debt markets -- Agency and corporate debt markets -- Securitization and mortgage-backed securities -- Tax-exempt debt markets -- Emerging debt markets -- Portfolio-management techniques -- Part 3: Fixed-income derivatives and risk management -- An overview of derivatives markets -- Treasury futures contracts -- Eurodollar futures and swaps -- Models of yield curve and yield curve derivatives -- Credit risk -- Risk management

1. Fixed-income securities