Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
Financial markets, instruments, calculation (of financial instruments) and price determination theories are applied.
The types of financial derivatives, their developments and the economic roles they play in the financial markets, as well as their risk and ethical issues are explained and applied.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Problems requiring the ability to price derivative instruments and hedge market risk based on numerical data and current market conventions are solved.
Appropriate mathematical and statistical techniques for application to problems in the contexts of financial markets are selected.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
An understanding of appropriate application of quantitative techniques to a range of problems in the financial market context demonstrated.
The key elements, roles, information sources, preparation and evaluation of financial statements reporting and analysis are described.
Derivatives pricing, payoff functions and combination of trading strategies of basic derivatives such as forwards and futures, options, swaps both, financial and interest rate, and floating rate notes are understood.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
Statistical methods are applied to analyse past data and infer future trends.
The different inventory accounting methods and the appropriateness of the method in regards to the company are described and evaluated.
The rules prescribed by the regulators of the financial industry governing the equities markets, derivatives, interest rates and currencies and how it affects the financial market environment are explained and applied.
Nonparametric methods are applied and interpreted.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
The types of financial derivatives, their developments and the economic roles they play in the financial markets, as well as their risk and ethical issues are explained.
The principles related to the management components within a stockbroking firm are conceptualised and applied.
Capital markets are analysed and expectations are formulated.
Relevant research and case studies in the field of portfolio management are conceptualised and interpreted.
Integrated Assessment:
Integrated formative assessments and summative assessments are written during the semester. Formative assessments once they have been marked and learners have received their scripts with marks, these are discussed in class.
The final assessment is a summative assessment which is written at the end of the semester, in June and November.
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