| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Traditional Asset Classes vs Alternative Investments
- Definition
- Similarities and differences
- General Characteristics
|
PPT Slides |
| 2) |
Historical Development of the markets and Financial Securities |
PPT Slides |
| 3) |
Investment Principles
- Understanding risk and return
- Diversificiation and Asset Allocation
- What is risk profiling, why do we have to do it?
- Measuring the time value of the investment and its consideration
- Historcial statistics of the returns of different asset classes
- Portfolio Theory
|
PPT Slides |
| 4) |
Introduction to Options
- Brief on Derivatives
- Options
- The reasons for using options: Usage Alternatives, speculation, hedging, arbitrage
- Market examples
- Temel Opsiyon Stratejileri
|
PPT Slides |
| 5) |
Advanced Option Strategies and Pricing
- Strategies for bullish, bearish and volatile market expectations
- Creating strategies and maths
- Pricing
|
PPT Slides, case studies from the book "Start Trading Options" |
| 6) |
Structured Products
- Definition
- Types of Structured Products
- Examples
- Risk/Return Analyses
- Terminolgy
|
PPT Slides, Handouts
Source: www:retailstructuredproducts.com |
| 7) |
Review of the 6 weeks and midterm |
Midterm |
| 8) |
Structured Products, Issuing and Trading
- Premium Accounts
- Protected Funds |
PPT Slides |
| 9) |
Structured Notes
-Issuing and the role of investors, investment baks and commercial banks
-Sales and marketing
-Structuring and Pricing
-Related Risks
-Secondary Market and Trading
-Lehman Case
|
PPT Slides, Cases to be used in the class workshop |
| 10) |
Continue to the Classwork from the previous week and solutions of the Cases |
Handouts |
| 11) |
Hedge Funds
- Characteristic Properties
- Most Famous Hedge Funds and the biggest trades of all
- Sources on Hedge Funds
- Most famous hedge fund managers and their management principles |
PPT Slides |
| 12) |
Hedge Fund Strategies
Statistical Comparision of the hedge fund industry by numbers and volumes |
PPT Slides |
| 13) |
Securitization, securitization tools CDO, CMO, CLO, MBS etc. |
PPT Slides, video |
| 14) |
Cont'd securitisation and wrap up the term |
PPT Slides |
| |
Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
To correctly identify the problems and to be able to ask the correct questions |
3 |
| 2) |
To have the ability for problem solving and to utilize analytical approach in dealing with the problems of finance |
4 |
| 3) |
To understand and grasp the full details of theoretical arguments and counter arguments |
4 |
| 4) |
To be fully prepared for a graduate study in finance and to have lifelong learning awareness |
3 |
| 5) |
To be able to apply theoretical principles of finance to the realities of practical business life |
5 |
| 6) |
To develop solutions for managerial problems by understanding the requirements of international financial markets |
4 |
| 7) |
To think innovatively and creatively in complex situations |
4 |
| 8) |
To be able to make decisions both locally and internationally by knowing the effects of globalization on business and social life |
4 |
| 9) |
To have the competencies of the digital age and to use the necessary financial applications |
3 |
| 10) |
To be able to use at least one foreign language both for communication and academic purposes |
4 |
| 11) |
To understand the importance of business ethics and to take decisions by knowing the legal and ethical consequences of their activities in the academic world and business life |
3 |
| 12) |
To develop an objective criticism in business and academic life and having a perspective to self-criticize |
4 |
BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
