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5710. Introductions to Financial Models

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: Open to MS in FinTech students, others with consent. Rec prep: Students new to Finance are encouraged to complete the online Bloomberg’s BML early, preferably, before taking the course, for an intro and overview of financial markets and institutions.

Grading Basis: Graded

Quantitative introduction to time, risk, and arbitrage valuation models used in equity, credit, and derivatives markets. Covered models include discounted cash flow models, equity valuation models, asset pricing models, term structure models, binomial trees and other derivatives models. Students will be introduced to portfolio construction, technical analysis, and to programming using Python. Students new to Finance are encouraged to complete the online Bloomberg’s BML very early in the course or, preferably, before taking the course, for an introduction and overview of financial markets and institutions.


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Section Class Number Notes Instructor Enrollment Term Session Instruction Mode
FT40 16036 To view the syllabus visit this url;
Syllabus
Zheng, Xiang 6/46 Spring 2023 Reg Online