Fin 3826
FINANCE 3826 INVESTMENTS Spring 2013 Section 2 – MW 10:30-11:50
Wei-Ling Song Associate Professor of Finance OFFICE HOURS: OFFICE: PHONE: FAX: e-MAIL: Teaching Assistants: Hui Wang Office: BEC 2627 e-mail: hwang31@tigers.lsu.edu Office hours: W 10:00 am to noon Office: BEC 2600R e-mail: yyang44@tigers.lsu.edu Office hours: T/TH 3:20 to 4:20 pm M 2:00 – 4:00 pm, or by appointment; additional office hours will be announced during exam weeks. 2921 Business Education Complex 225-578-6258 225-578-6366 wsong@lsu.edu
Yang Yang
*** If you have any questions regarding grading, please contact Yang Yang. The other TA does not have your information. However, if you need help regarding course materials, you could contact any of us. All the e-mails to me or to your TA should start from FIN 3826 in the subject line or you will have the risk that they will not be read. For the privacy protection reason, we only correspond to e-mails from LSU system. Therefore, the e-mails from gmail, hotmail, and yahoo, etc, will not be read. Course Objectives and Outcomes To acquire an in-depth understanding of the major investment theories, which include capital market theory, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, options, and futures. To provide an understanding of the risk/return tradeoff that investors face, how risk can be reduced, what risk is important to investors, how risk is priced in financial markets, how derivative markets and instruments work, how derivative instruments are priced, and how derivatives can be used to reduce risk. To help you make more informed and, hopefully, more profitable investment decisions. To help you develop a theoretical foundation for future coursework in finance. Required Materials Required Text: Required Reading: Essentials of Investments, by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, 9th edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2012. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
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EXAM DATES AND GRADING Midterm Exam I Midterm Exam II Midterm Exam III Final Exam Quizzes Project 1
Wei-Ling Song Associate Professor of Finance OFFICE HOURS: OFFICE: PHONE: FAX: e-MAIL: Teaching Assistants: Hui Wang Office: BEC 2627 e-mail: hwang31@tigers.lsu.edu Office hours: W 10:00 am to noon Office: BEC 2600R e-mail: yyang44@tigers.lsu.edu Office hours: T/TH 3:20 to 4:20 pm M 2:00 – 4:00 pm, or by appointment; additional office hours will be announced during exam weeks. 2921 Business Education Complex 225-578-6258 225-578-6366 wsong@lsu.edu
Yang Yang
*** If you have any questions regarding grading, please contact Yang Yang. The other TA does not have your information. However, if you need help regarding course materials, you could contact any of us. All the e-mails to me or to your TA should start from FIN 3826 in the subject line or you will have the risk that they will not be read. For the privacy protection reason, we only correspond to e-mails from LSU system. Therefore, the e-mails from gmail, hotmail, and yahoo, etc, will not be read. Course Objectives and Outcomes To acquire an in-depth understanding of the major investment theories, which include capital market theory, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, options, and futures. To provide an understanding of the risk/return tradeoff that investors face, how risk can be reduced, what risk is important to investors, how risk is priced in financial markets, how derivative markets and instruments work, how derivative instruments are priced, and how derivatives can be used to reduce risk. To help you make more informed and, hopefully, more profitable investment decisions. To help you develop a theoretical foundation for future coursework in finance. Required Materials Required Text: Required Reading: Essentials of Investments, by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, 9th edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2012. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
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EXAM DATES AND GRADING Midterm Exam I Midterm Exam II Midterm Exam III Final Exam Quizzes Project 1