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Financial Markets: What beginners need to know
Financial Markets: What beginners need to know
Students get an overview of the main financial instruments (equity, fixed income, money market instruments, and derivatives). They learn how the entire trade lifecycle works and the different actors (trading venues, investment banks, brokers, central counterparties,etc.). Students further learn the difference between fundamental analysis and technical analysis and learn about dark pools and short selling. Finally, they get an overview of active and passive portfolio management.
Corporate Investment Management
Corporate Investment Management
Students learn the rol that financial managers play and the investment trade-offs they need to make. They further get insights into how to use the net present value (NPV) rule to assess whether to invest in a project and to estimate free cash flows (FCFs). They further will be able to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and will learn Markowitz' mean-variance portfolio approach, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), the arbitrage pricing theory, the Fama and French (1992) three-factor model and the Carhart (1997) four-factor model to estimate beta and the cost of equity.
Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance
Students learn what conflicts of interests are and how to allign interests of shareholders and debtholders. They get more insights into management compensation and learn how the market for corporate control can reduce agency problems. They further learn how companies use their communication strategy to align interests and how private equity investors reduce agency problems.
An introduction to financial markets
An introduction to financial markets
Students get an overview of the main financial instruments (equity, fixed income, money market instruments, and derivatives). They learn how the entire trade lifecycle works and the different actors (trading venues, investment banks, brokers, central counterparties,etc.). Students further learn the difference between fundamental analysis and technical analysis and learn about dark pools and short selling. Finally, they get an overview of active and passive portfolio management.
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