Contiene: Pricing of bond. Measuring yield. Bond price volatility. Factors affecting bond yields and the term structure of interest rates. Treasury and agency securities markets. Corporate debt instruments. Municipal securities. Non-U.S. bonds. Mortgage loand. Mortgage pass-through securities. Collateralized mortgage obligations and stripped mortgage-backed securities. Asset-backed securities. Analysis of bonds with embedded options. Analysis of mortgage-Backed securities. Analysis of convertible bonds. Active bond portfolio management strategies. Indexing. Liability funding strategies. Bond performance measurement and evaluation. Interest-rate futures contracts. Interest-rate options. Interest-rate swaps and agreements.