FINC306 Derivatives

Course Outline

Announcements

New Classrooms for Lecture and Tutorials under Alert Level 2!

1. Class meets in BURN1 at 3pm-4:50pm on Thursdays

Office hours: 2pm-2:50pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays

2. Tutorials will start in the second week.

Tutorial session, date/time, Room and Tutor's information are as follows:

T2 Tue 4pm-5:50pm, OBSG19, Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn,

beam.aschakulporn@otago.ac.nz

T3 Wed 2pm-3:50pm, RGS2, Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn

T4 Wed 4pm-5:50pm, OBSG19, Jungah (Isabella) Yoon

Isabella.yoon@postgrad.otago.ac.nz

3. Class Rep: Amanda Sim, simam337@student.otago.ac.nz

4. Master of Finance information session in OBS2.19/2.20 at 12:30pm on 31 Jul 2020 (Fri).

5. Assignment 1 covers materials of Lectures 1, 2, 3 and 4. You are required to work on it individually. Discussion among classmates is allowed. Please turn in your solution in class on 6 Aug 2020 (Thu). Late turn-in will be heavily discounted. Remember to put your name and student ID on the first page of your manuscript. Please feel free to talk to the tutors during the tutorial sessions if you have any questions regarding Assignment 1.

Result of Assignment 1: Mean = 89.9, Median = 95, SD = 13.8, Max = 100, Min = 41.

Review Questions for midterm exam.

6. Midterm exam covers Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will be in person in Room BURN1 at 3pm-4:50pm on 20 Aug 2020 (Thu). It is a closed exam. The main purpose of the midterm is to test your understanding of the fundamental concepts and your ability of doing logical reasoning and basic calculations. Please bring your calculator! No restriction on the model of calculator to be used, but no device with communication capability shall be accepted as a calculator.