FIN 465Derivatives & Risk Management

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Derivatives and Risk Management (3) Analysis of debt and equity-based futures and options contracts and their underlying cash market instruments. Advanced topics include characteristics of derivative instruments markets; pricing of derivative instruments; speculative, hedging, and arbitrage uses of derivative instruments and risk-return tradeoffs in speculation and hedging. This course introduces coverage of currency futures and options. Crosslist: FIN-674. Prerequisite: FIN-369.