Derivatives

3 credits · Fuqua School of Business

Explores key issues in derivatives and financial risk management. It develops tools for valuing and modeling the risk exposures of derivatives, with the ultimate goal of deploying these instruments in a corporate or financial risk management setting. The course is divided into three parts, covering (1) linear instruments including forward, futures and swaps, (2) non-linear instruments such as options, and (3) corporate finance and risk management applications of both types of instruments. This course is for MQM: Business Analytics students.