Certificate in Fixed Income Trading and Sales Solutions

Understanding Underlying Markets

• High-yield bonds.
• Fixed-income covenants.
• Investing in fixed-income mutual funds.
• Fixed Income Performance Portfolio Performance Attribution.
• Bond trading strategies.
• Securitization
• Interest rate derivatives.
• Equity-linked debt securities.
• Fixed-income hedge fund strategies.
• Credit rating methodology.
• Fixed-income ETFs.

An Overview of Derivatives

• Organization of the fixed-income marketplace.
• Calculate bond prices, duration and convexity.
• Price and yield calculations.
• Fixed-income marketplace.
• Basic features and terminology of fixed-income.
• Structure and participants of fixed-income trading and sales.
• Determinants of individual fixed-income yields.
• Corporate credit analysis.
• Determinants of the general level of interest rates.

CFITS Certification Exam Demonstrate mastery of program-wide knowledge and application.