25923 Derivative Security Pricing
6cpUndergraduate
This subject provides the techniques needed to analyse and price derivative securities and to understand some of the key associated quantitative arguments. Topics include: derivative securities; arbitrage arguments; geometric Brownian motion model of asset prices; Ito's lemma; risk-neutral pricing; Black Scholes option pricing model; currency, index and futures options; hedging techniques; and interest rate derivative securities.
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