Financial Instruments - ECFS867
This unit covers the structure, pricing and usage of various financial instruments, including spot, forward, swaps and option contracts for equity, debt, foreign exchange and commodity markets. This unit is concerned with understanding how these financial instruments work, how they are used by end users for speculation and risk management, how they are priced and valued, and how market makers manage their risks when they trade these financial instruments.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | AFC Term 1 City - Applied Finance Centre, City Campus, January to March AFC Term 3 City - Applied Finance Centre, City Campus, June to September AFC Term 3 MB - Applied Finance Centre, Melbourne Campus, June to September |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Rob Trevor |
| Prerequisites: |
(Admission to MAppFin or MAppFin(Adv) or GradDipAppFin) and (AFCP801 or ECFS865) |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Faculty of Business and Economics |
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