Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Fixed Income Securities
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Anh
3. Course Code:
FIN505132
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
The Fixed Income Securities course is designed for students of International Finance Program, School of Finance, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. This course aims to provide learners with basic knowledge related to fixed income securities, helping learners have knowledge on fixed income securities, be able to value them, identify related risks as well as be able to build hedging strategies when investing in fixed income securities at a basic level. The course also prepares students for career skills such as computational and problem solving skills to help them better develop their future careers.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
This course provides learners with the basics of fixed income securities, especially bonds. Specifically, learners will be equipped with knowledge of different types of fixed income securities such as bonds, preference shares, structured products, and markets with their characteristics; and pricing principles and bond pricing; attributes of term structure of interest, risks associated with investing in fixed income securities, and how the risk is measured when investing in fixed income securities; hedging strategies in investing in fixed income securities.