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FIN-4224: Fixed Income Securities: Analysis and Management

Description: Analysis of fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, U.S. Treasury notes and bonds, municipal bonds, money market securities, and home mortgages. The analysis include interest rate risk, credit risk, bond valuation theory, and the valuation of embedded options in the bond contract. Theories of the term structure of interest rates are presented. Must have a grade of C or better in prerequisites of FIN 3144 and 3154.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: FIN-3134 and FIN-3154 and FIN-3144

Required By: FIN-4226

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 66

Average GPA: 2.96 (B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 18.68%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.35%

George E Morgan202222.2%41.1%20.6%7.9%3.5%4.6%2.7314
Sattar A Mansi201228.0%46.4%17.3%7.4%0.0%1.0%2.933
Meir I Schneller200836.0%40.1%20.9%3.0%0.0%0.0%3.077
Frederick Hood202428.4%45.7%19.0%3.8%1.1%2.2%2.9820
Michael T Kender201521.9%63.4%14.1%0.0%0.0%0.6%3.0711
Pengfei Ye201635.9%39.4%18.5%0.8%0.0%5.4%3.164
Jerchern Lin201935.1%31.3%26.6%3.5%1.1%2.5%2.936
Raman Kumar201321.2%57.5%16.9%2.2%0.0%2.1%2.971

Grade Distribution Over Time