FIN 313 - Financial Analytics

Course unit(s): 1
Prerequisite(s): FIN 237 Corporation Finance
This course introduces the basics of the modern financial engineering framework. Financial engineering is where modern finance meets the global economy. This approach to finance involves the creation of synthetic financial instruments and the use of innovative computational approaches supporting valuation and risk management. The course is an applied course, taking the perspective of a market practitioner. The course will develop general methods of creating synthetics and other structured products within the context of global economic and financial markets. Overall, the course is designed to provide a conceptual, computational-directed approach to the financial engineering framework.