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| FINA0070-1 | Finance and insurance principles
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| Lecturer : | Marie Lambert |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The objective of this course of "Finance and insurance principles" is to enable students to acquire the sufficient knowledge for dealing with the following issues:
- Security valuation and asset allocation: bond pricing, equity and derivative securities pricing, portfolio theory (portfolio management and evaluation of portfolio performance)
- Corporate finance: capital budgeting decisions
- Insurance : insurance/risk premia, asset and liability management, risk management
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Tools for financial and real asset valuation
Tools for asset management
Tools for insurance management |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Probability and statistical inference |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures, exercise sessions |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Pierre Vernimmen - Finance d'entreprise, Pascal Quiry et Yann Le Fur, 2012, Edition Dalloz
Mathématiques et gestion financière - Applications avec exercices corrigés, Octave Jokung Nguéna, Edition de Boeck |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Class participation
Written exam |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Marie Lambert - marie.lambert@ulg.ac.be |
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