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FIN-3144: Investments: Debt, Equity and Derivatives

Description: Risk, return and portfolio theory, knowledge of financial securities and markets. Introduction to mutual funds, financial securities and markets, portfolio analysis, market efficiency and performance evaluation, bond valuation, term structure of interest rates, interest rate risk, security analysis and stock valuation, options, Black-Scholes option pricing model, and futures. Must have a grade of C or better in prerequisite of FIN 3134. Sophomore Standing required.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 186

Average GPA: 2.90 (B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 16.67%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.32%

Derek D Klock202216.9%48.2%23.8%4.4%1.3%5.5%2.7918
Gregory B Kadlec202422.9%35.9%35.8%2.6%0.4%2.5%2.7951
Brian R Hart201623.9%47.8%21.5%3.3%2.2%1.4%2.8621
Jaideep Chowdhury200826.1%46.0%25.8%0.0%2.1%0.0%2.892
Nan Qin201446.5%43.3%10.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.293
Moghadam Shahram Amini201834.2%38.1%15.3%5.7%3.3%3.6%2.933
Jitendra Tayal201459.6%30.4%8.0%0.0%2.0%0.0%3.412
Tong Wang201832.7%48.3%15.8%1.3%0.3%1.6%3.1215
Vijay Singal201719.6%41.1%28.7%4.4%3.1%3.2%2.7214
Hongyan Li201823.9%52.3%23.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.932
Raman Kumar202336.5%47.7%12.2%1.4%1.1%1.2%3.1912
Abhay Kaushik200833.3%42.9%14.3%0.0%9.5%0.0%2.881
Staff Edelen202423.2%47.9%22.9%1.4%1.8%2.7%2.907
Nikolaos Artavanis202028.3%47.3%19.7%4.0%0.0%0.7%2.998
Umut Celiker201525.2%47.3%26.7%0.4%0.0%0.4%2.976
Yutong Xie201717.4%47.8%28.0%1.3%0.0%5.6%2.852
Pengfei Ye202236.0%43.9%16.0%0.7%1.1%2.4%3.125
Tyler J Beason202334.2%38.3%21.2%1.4%0.9%3.8%3.068
Gokhan Sonaer201120.8%37.6%40.7%0.0%0.9%0.0%2.823
Staff Kovalenko200920.0%47.5%30.0%2.5%0.0%0.0%2.831
Julia Kwok200614.6%24.4%48.8%12.2%0.0%0.0%2.391
Staff Autore200627.1%45.8%20.8%2.1%4.2%0.0%2.801

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