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Study programmes 2007-2008Last update : 7/05/2008
GEST1010-1  Financial operations
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
"licencié" business studies, 2nd year2
Sales engineer, 3rd year2,5
Holder(s) :  André Rochez
Language :  Langue française
Course contents :  Parametrization methods are applied to the different profitability assessment methods of a financial operation, to loan on stocks (including bond management), to the assessment of inflation effects on financial projects, & to new banking & insurance products
Course objective :  Initiation to the parametrization & quantization principles, the transformation of financial problems into equations & their solution.
Prerequisites :  MQG 719 Financial Mathematics
Organization :  - The presentation of those principles is illustrated by examples inspired by the international experience of the teacher
- Newspaper & magazine articles are commented in the light of current events
- A syllabus of the course will be available, together with copies of media used in class (transparencies, ...)
- Some classes will be devoted to exercise solving to illustrate the methods and principles of the course and to favor their assimilation.
Written notes :  - "An Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance", J.J. Mc Cutcheon and W.F. Scott, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg, Heinemann, London, 1987.
- "Finance Stochastique", Pierre Devolder, Editions de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1993.
- "Le Matif", Florin Aftalion et Patrice Poncet, Presses Universitaires de France, 1987.
- "Mathématiques Financières", A. Brown and M. Shaheen, 1982.
- "Algèbre Financière", G. Cnapelinckx, Editions Wesmael Charlier, 1977.
- "Introduction à la Mathématique Financière", Daniel Justens, Editions De Boeck, 1987.
- "Mathématiques Financières", Pierre Bonneau, Editions Dunod, 1986.
Assessment :  1st session assessment : oral examination on the comprehension of principles and the assimilation of methods
2nd session assessment: oral examination
prolonged 2nd session assessment: oral examination
Contacts :  André Rochez
e-mail : Andre.Rochez@solvay.com


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