Pricing and Trading of Asset Backed Securities - Online

This introductory course guides students through the evolution of asset securitization, which results in new products for investors and expanded sources of funding and risk transfer opportunities for issuers. It shows how an asset-backed security is traded and valued.

This course replicates the content from lesson 4 of Asset Backed Securities - Online

This is an asynchronous eLearning course that can be accessed 24/7 from any internet enabled computer. Subscription period for this course is 90 days.


Newcomers to the bond markets, institutional sales staff, sales and capital markets assistants.
Students will be able to:
  • Recognize the role of spreads and benchmarks in pricing ABSs.
  • Distinguish the different factors that impact ABS spreads.
  • Identify the relative pricing of different ABS sectors and the fixed-income market.
Pricing and Trading of Asset Backed Securities
  • Mechanics of pricing
  • Determining the spread
  • Relative pricing of ABS compared to other fixed income sectors
  • Relative pricing among ABS products