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FINANCE 261 - Introduction to Investments

Course Overview

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Department

Accounting & Finance

Points:

15

Available Semesters:

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Description: Markets for shares, fixed income securities, options and futures. Methods of valuing shares, fixed income securities, options, and futures. Simple techniques of hedging risk. Portfolio diversification. Portfolio evaluation.

Prerequisites / Restrictions

Prerequisite: FINANCE 251 or 180 points in a BSc major in Mathematics or Statistics with a GPA of at least 5 and a B or higher in MATHS 130

Average Rating From 2 Reviews

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Teaching Quality

5.5 / 10

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Content Quality

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Difficulty

8.5 / 10

50% - Would Recommend

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Reviews

An incredibly tough course with some very unhelpful lecturers. You can ask questions on Piazza but expect to receive just a page number or nothing at all. Now would be a good time to pick up on some basic excel skills as it is going to be compulsory for answering some exam questions. Not only is the content much more difficult than Fin251 but the final exam does not mark your working, meaning that you cannot afford to miss any decimal places when plugging in your answer values.

Semester One - 2023

Nice course, intellectually stimulating and focused on portfolio management/buy side investments.

Semester Two - 2023