Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of the financial system -- Bond value and return -- The level and structure of interest rates -- The term structure of interest rates -- Bond risk -- Corporate debt securities -- Treasury and agency securities -- Municipal securities -- Intermediary debt securities -- International debt securities -- Residential mortgages and mortgage-backed securities -- Nonagency residential MBSs, commercial MBSs, and other asset-backed securities -- Bond investment strategies -- Binomial interest rate trees and the valuation of bonds with embedded options -- Estimating the binomial tree -- Future contracts on debt securities : fundamentals -- Interest rate options contracts : fundamentals -- Managing fixed-income positions with interest rate derivatives -- Managing fixed-income positions with OTC derivatives -- Interest rate swaps -- Swap derivatives : forward swaps and swaptions -- Currency and credit default swaps.