1. Fixed Income Securities Market Market Segments, Participants, Instrument Features, Trading Mechanism in NSE and Emerging Debt Markets, Bond market indices and benchmarks. 2. Regulatory and Procedural Aspects Public Debt Act, 1944, SEBI (Guidelines for Disclosure and Investor Protection), 2000- Market Practices and Procedures. 3. Government Securities market Bonds Issuance Process, T-Bill Auction, G-Sec Market Trends, Secondary Market Trading Process, Settlement of Trades, Role of Clearing Corporations of India Limited (CCIL), Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). 4. Repo Market Structure and Pricing, Trading Patterns, Settlement of Repo Transactions, Repo Market in India. 5. Valuation of Bonds Yield Curve and Term structure of Interest Rates, Bootstrapping, Alternative Methods to Estimate Yield Curve, Theories of Term Structure of Interest Rates 6. Price, Yield and Interest Rate Risk Duration, Modified Duration, Portfolio Duration, Hedging Strategy and Duration, Analysis of Bonds with Embedded Options