Fixed Income for Institutional Investors

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.This course is currently being expanded. Modules 0 through 3 are now available, covering Fixed Income Fundamentals, Risk Metrics, and Fixed Income in Institutional Portfolios — approximately 4 hours of content. Additional modules covering Bond Analysis, Derivatives, Bloomberg workflows, and an integrated case study will be added in the coming weeks.Students who enroll now will receive immediate access to all existing content and automatic access to all new modules as they are published at no additional cost.Fixed Income for Institutional Investors is a comprehensive, practical course designed to teach you how pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, and banks actually build and manage fixed income portfolios.Most fixed income courses teach you theory. This course teaches you practice — how institutional investors think, how they make decisions, and how they apply fixed income concepts in real portfolios with real constraints.What you will learnBy the end of this course you will be able to:Understand the full fixed income landscape — bonds, yields, duration, credit spreads, and how they interact in institutional portfolios.Apply the core risk metrics used by institutional investors every day — duration, convexity, and DV01 — to measure and manage interest rate risk.Understand Asset Liability Management — how pension funds and insurance companies match assets to liabilities to protect their funding positions.Analyze individual bonds using the frameworks used by professional credit analysts — from reading a prospectus to relative value analysis.Use Bloomberg for fixed income analysis — including key functions used by institutional analysts in their daily workflow.Construct an institutional fixed income portfolio from scratch — from the liability profile to the investment mandate to the asset allocation and i