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ACCG329: Security Pricing and Hedging

Lecturer in charge

Dr Egon Kalotay

Availability

D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year

Unit Outline

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Description

This unit explores the principles, theory and techniques of asset pricing. The first half of the unit focuses on portfolio analysis and multifactor models applicable to problems in investment analysis and asset allocation. The second half of the unit focuses on pricing techniques driven by arbitrage arguments. Arbitrage or relative pricing arguments underpin powerful, robust methods for pricing derivative securities.