Credit Fixed Income

Upon completing this course, you will be able to: - Describe key characteristics of corporate bonds, from liquidity preference and coupon type, to offering formats, and provisions - Appreciate the corporate bond issuer landscape from a trader/investor’s perspective, being able to speak to the various industry categories and provide examples of significant market players - Discuss the key quantitative measures (i.e. types of spreads) used in reference to bonds by industry professionals - Understand the mechanics of credit spreads and their relationships to each other - Identify specific credit products that can provide investors additional yield and explain why these products can provide incremental returns in relation to others (‘relative value’)