CAPITAL MARKETS, INVESTMENTS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

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This course provides an overview of financial markets, the financial intermediation process, and the forces that drives them. Quantitative reasoning is expected. Topics include: the global financial system p roles, assets, capital flows, and sources of information; financial institutions - banks, non-banks, thrifts, insurance companies, pension funds, finance companies, investment companies and mutual funds; regulation of financial institutions; investment principles for stocks and fixed income instruments; interest rates, debt instruments, yield curve, risks, taxes, hedging risks, options, futures, short selling; international banking and finance, hedging foreign currency risks; federal reserve and monetary policy; money market instruments; the future of the financial system.Faculty: STAFF