Risk Analysis and Mgmt

Catalog description

The course provides a thorough and rigorous conceptual, analytical, and applied framework to identify, analyze, and evaluate corporate and investing financial risk in domestic and international financial markets. The course identifies, analyzes and evaluates interest rate risk, exchange rate risk, and commodity price risk. The course also analyzes risk-mitigating tools that allow corporations and investors to formulate hedging strategies with coverage of options, forward contracts, future contracts, and interest rates and currency swaps. Prerequisite(s): FIN 623