E-Finance and Online Investing

Catalog description

Financial markets are undergoing a rapid e-technology-driven evolution. The Internet offers investors access to a great wealth of relevant information and e-technology also allows for a speedy processing and communicating of such information. The growing complexity of the investment environment - due to accelerating technological changes, globalization, and creation of new exotic securities - is confronting the investor with new opportunities and challenges. This course addresses the opportunities and the challenges by introducing students to the current e-finance tools including financial calculators (CFA versions), menu-driven computerized financial programs, and to several of the leading financial Web sites including: (1) www.bloomberg.com (an Internet version of the Bloomberg Machine commonly used by brokers and traders); and (2) Thomson ONE Business School Edition (similar to the system used by financial analysts and dealers). Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisite: FINC 735