Monash University Handbooks 2008

AFC3340 - Options, financial futures and other derivatives

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Business and Economics

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Topics include institutional aspects of how financial derivatives markets operate, use of and factors affecting the price of options in equity, currency and interest rate markets, the pricing of and uses of futures, forward contracts and swaps, new financial derivative instruments in Australia.

Objectives

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 20%
Examination (3 hours): 80%

Contact hours

Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week

Prerequisites

AFC2140

Prohibitions

AFF3751

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