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This course introduces the structure of financial markets
and the valuation of financial assets including stocks,
bonds, forwards, futures, options and swaps. Among the
topics to be covered are: fixed-income investments,
yield-to-maturity, duration, yield curves, forward rates,
mean-variance framework, portfolio construction and
performance analysis, mutual funds and other investment
companies, asset pricing models, equity valuation,
fundamental and technical analyses, the use of derivatives
in risk-management and their pricing.
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