Financial Market and Investment
The course introduces the global financial market system first, and then explains the monetary market, the capital market (including the bond market, the stock market), the foreign exchange market, the gold market, the derivatives market and so on, and makes a comparative explanation for each kind of financial market. It also explains the investment of related financial products in each financial market, and finally introduces cross market investment strategy. The curriculum aims to make students aware of the nature of financial markets and to develop students' financial databases (wind databases) to understand all kinds of financial markets and their investment, to understand the current situation and main problems of China's financial market and investment development. Understanding the business characteristics of various financial markets, the sources of risk, financial supervision, and so on, obviously improve the students' ability to analyze the financial market and to invest in related financial products.
Corporate Finance
This is a core compulsory course of Finance. Based on company's financial activities, this course mainly studies company's investment, financing and asset management activities. The focus of this course is on the company's financial activities, and the corresponding knowledge and skills are distributed in each chapter. The specific contents include what this course is about, analysis of the results of the company, the time value of capital, pricing of securities, capital budget, working capital management, capital cost and capital structure, dividend distribution etc.
Financial Derivatives
This course provides students with a framework to understand the fundamental concepts of derivative products (futures, options, swaps, and basic structured products), to develop the necessary skills used in valuing derivative contracts, and to understand a wide variety of issues related to risk management and investment decisions using derivatives. The course intends to provide a solid foundation for other advanced courses of the program such as risk management and financial engineering.
Money and Banking
The course of Money and Banking includes micro and macro parts. The micro section mainly talks about financial assets and financial markets, time value of money, valuation of financial assets, portfolio management, corporate finance and financial risk management, etc. The macro part mainly deals with the demand for money and money supply, inflation and deflation, and monetary policy.
Risk Management
This course considers theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of risk management.The topics include basic knowledge and framework of risk management, general techniques of risk management, micro-risk management and macro-risk management module.
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
Understand the basic knowledge and basic principles of risk management; including the elements of modern risk management system and their operational framework; calculation and modeling of risk identification, risk assessment and risk management planning Technology; learn how to write a more professional risk assessment description report and a complete risk management report.
