Module 1: Interest Rates and Annuities

compound interest and annuities

discounted cash flow valuation

interest rate securities

investment analysis

the term structure of interest rates

stochastic models for investment returns

Module 2: Options and the Black-Scholes Model

options

 (very preliminary) mathematical foundation of option pricing

arbitrage

replication

fundamental theorems of asset pricing (risk-neutral pricing)

Black-Scholes (BS) model

model

derivation of the BS PDE

solution

Module 3: Portfolio Optimisation

Risk Measure

Trade-off between return and risk

Efficient Frontier

Mean-Variance portfolio optimisation