FM Course List
GCLA1903 English I
大学英文 I
The course involves instruction of English as both an academic subject and a foreign/second language. The course focuses on fundamental language skills that are related to reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It is also designed to enable students to study their major courses more effectively by focusing on the basic language and thinking skills of academic reading and writing.
Check DetailsGCLA1913 English II
大学英文 II
Course objectives are aimed at further developing and improving the four language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening to a level appropriate for university study. This course builds on the skills taught in English I by taking the sentence writing skills from that course and developing them into academic style paragraphs using different patterns of organisation. The course will broaden student awareness of reading for academic purpose by instructing how to interpret different textual styles.
Check DetailsGCLA1923 English III
大学英文 III
The course involves a careful instruction of English as both an academic subject and a second language. Students will be able to respond to and convey ideas in areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Speaking will focus on articulation and target language. Patterns of organization will be stressed in speaking and writing. Specific grammar and vocabulary will be addressed within essays. Reading and listening material will be accessed primarily from electronic resources and the library in order to facilitate comprehension of academic sources.
Check DetailsGCLA1933 English IV
大学英文 IV
This course prepares students for communicating in an academic environment. Major topics of this course include research activities which will enable students to find appropriate academic sources about the topics being studied and use references to support their writing. Public speaking skills will be introduced to enhance their spoken language. Reading and listening material will be accessed primarily from electronic resources and the library in order to further academic research skills and avoid plagiarism.
Check DetailsFINM4043 Exotic Options and Structured Products
奇异期权和结构性产品
This course aims to provide students with an introduction to the major structured products, their design, pricing and their uses and risks. The key features of each exotic option that can be used to develop such structured products will also be covered. The course will discuss the process of Financial Engineering in the construction of these financial instruments by using the building blocks of bonds, forwards, swaps and standard options and exotic options. Emphasis will be on the Equity-linked, FX-linked and Interest-rate linked structured products.
Check DetailsFINM4004 Final Year Project I (FM)
毕业论文 I
The aim of the final-year project is to enable students to go through an independent learning experience, giving them a chance to develop skills, including the use of online and offline materials, the logical development of scientific arguments, thesis writing skills, presentation techniques and time management. Students need to demonstrate an integrated understanding of finance and mathematics through solving real-life problems.
Check DetailsFINM4005 Final Year Project II (FM)
毕业论文 II
This is an advanced individual project on an interdisciplinary and applied topic related to the field of financial mathematics for utilizing theories, knowledge and skills acquired in the program. The course is to guide students in developing appropriate research methodology to solve or study a problem of financial mathematics with real-world significant. This course is open to Financial Mathematics students only.
Check DetailsFINM2043 Financial Engineering
金融工程
Financial engineering is the use of sophisticated mathematical modelling techniques to design, price, and hedge securities and portfolios. The aim and objective of this course is to learn applications of financial engineering, which includes development of derivative pricing techniques, use of derivative securities to reduce or eliminate risk, creation of new financial instruments to meet the changing needs of investors, and estimation of the risk of complex portfolios. Although traditionally concerned with derivative securities, financial engineering techniques are increasingly applied to fundamental securities.
Check DetailsFINM3113 Financial Engineering Workshop
金融工程工作坊
This course introduces how to use python programming language to do data collection, storage, analysis and visualization. After studying this course, students will learn how to crawl data from the web, store data into database, perform statistical analysis, and visualize the result. Equipped with these skills, students can further analyse finance data, make predictions and do back testing. To take this course, students are required to have some basic background in computer programming.
Check DetailsFINM3003 Financial Mathematics I (for FM Students)
金融数学 I
This course aims to provide students with recent developments in mathematical control theory and its applications to finance, such as application of stochastic control theory in financial economics. In particular, the course addresses a large spectrum of problems and techniques. The objective is to enable student to understand how control theory provides a large set of theoretical and computational tools with applications in finance. Other branches of control theory are found to have comparatively less applications to financial problems and the exchange of ideas and methods have intensified in recent years. This course establishes bridges between these separate fields.
Check DetailsFINM4003 Financial Mathematics II (for FM Students)
金融数学 II
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of basic results in martingale theory, familiarise them with the different martingales in different financial markets, so that they will know how to apply various martingales to price derivatives such as options.
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金融建模
This course aims to help students learn the essential knowledge of using Excel spreadsheet functions and some software as decision-making tools for formulating suitable solutions to solve real-world financial and economic problems in the financial industry, and gain hands-on experience and professional skills of using Excel worksheet functions, pivot table, charts and VBA macros (Visual Basic Applications) for the practical implementation of financial models. It covers standard financial models in the areas of corporate finance, financial statement simulation, portfolio problems, option, portfolio insurance, duration, and immunisation.
Check DetailsFINM3023 Fixed Income Securities and Their Derivatives
固定收益类证券及其衍生品
The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the techniques of valuation of fixed income securities and their derivatives as well as management of fixed income investment portfolios. This course focuses on analytic tools used in bond portfolio management and interest rate risk management. These tools include yield curve construction, duration and convexity, and formal term structure models. The course covers the valuation of a wide variety of fixed income securities and derivatives including pure discount bonds, coupon bonds, forwards and options on fixed income securities, interest-rate swaps, floating-rate notes, and mortgages. It also develops tools for valuing and modelling the risk exposures of fixed income securities and their derivatives, with the ultimate goal of deploying these instruments in a corporate or financial risk management setting.
Check DetailsGCIT1003 IT for Success in Everyday Life and Work
日常生活和工作中的信息技术
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of Information Technology (IT), and develops students’ confidence in using computers and computer applications. Useful and practical course contents are selected for learning how to be a competitive person in this information era. Students are introduced to the background of Computer Science, and the modern IT sector. Some of the major IT organisations are introduced, and current IT issues and questions are discussed. The basic architecture and design of a computer is explained. Software applications useful for students of all majors are introduced.
Check DetailsFINM3063 International Finance
国际金融
With the rapid globalisation of the world economy, the managers of a firm have to understand that their decisions will be greatly influenced by variables such as exchange rate policies, trade policies, international accounting standards, etc. The aims of this course are to provide students with a basic knowledge of how international financial markets work; to provide students with an understanding of exchange rates and why currency values fluctuate, the international monetary system; balance of payments; parity conditions; foreign exchange rate determination and forecasting; derivatives; to explore methods used to manage risk in the global markets; to support student learning through site visits financial centres; and to provide an in-depth understanding of the process and techniques used in making international investment decisions.
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