| Area: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 4.0 |
| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** | |
| Lecture: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Stochastic models of security prices. An introduction to derivatives, the Greeks and the binomial model. The Black-Scholes option pricing formula. The marginal rate of transformation and five-step method. Arbitrage-free pricing and the five-step method with the Black-Scholes model. Interest rate models. Property derivatives. Exotic structures in credit derivatives. Currency options extended to barrier options using Monte Carlo valuation processes. |
| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** | |
| Field of Education: | 081103 Insurance and Actuarial Studies |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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