FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
(objectives)
According with the educational objectives of the Degree in Economia e Gestione Aziendale (CLEGA), the course aims to set the foundations of financial evaluation, to provide the basics for the markets’ formalization and for the measurement of the value and risk of financial contracts, to introduce the evaluation of traditional insurance contracts.
At the end of the course students will have developed a solid and rigorous, both theoretical and practical, knowledge on the fundamentals of financial evaluation, on the evaluation of basic and derivative financial contracts (fixed and variable rate bonds and mortgages, interest rate swaps and standard financial options), on the foundations of insurance evaluation.
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Code
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21201494 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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9
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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SECS-S/06
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Contact Hours
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60
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Group: AL
Teacher
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MOTTURA CARLO DOMENICO
(syllabus)
1. PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS Money, time and risks. Present and future value, principal and interest. Contracts, exchange, prices. The risks.
2. FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCIAL CONTRACTS EVALUATION 2.1 EVALUATION IN CERTAINTY CONDITIONS Financial laws in certainty conditions. The exponential law. Annuities and mortgages. Internal rate of return on a financial transaction. Theory of financial equivalence laws. 2.2 FINANCIAL OPERATIONS IN THE MARKET. Value function and market price. The term structure. Duration indices and variability indices. Arbitrage valuations of floating rate notes. Interest Rate Swap. Term structure measurement. Term structure evolution. Introduction to financial options. Basic elements on equity options. Basic elements on traditional life insurance contracts.
(reference books)
David G. Luenberger Investment Science Oxford University Press (any edition)
Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco Introduction to Insurance Mathematics Springer, 2011
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 17/09/2018 to 15/12/2018 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
Oral exam
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Group: MZ
Teacher
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CARLEO ALESSANDRA
(syllabus)
1. PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS Money, time and risks. Present and future value, principal and interest. Contracts, exchange, prices. The risks.
2. FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCIAL CONTRACTS VALUATION
2.1 VALUATION IN CERTAINTY CONDITIONS Financial laws under certainty conditions. The exponential law. Annuities and mortgages. Internal rate of return of a financial transaction. Theory of financial laws.
2.2 FINANCIAL OPERATIONS IN THE MARKET. Value function and market price. The term structure. Duration indices and variability indices. Arbitrage valuation of floating rate notes. Interest Rate Swap. Term structure measurement. Term structure evolution. Introduction to financial options. Basic elements on equity options. Basic elements on traditional life insurance contracts.
(reference books)
David G. Luenberger Investment Science Oxford University Press (any edition)
Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco Introduction to Insurance Mathematics Springer, 2011
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 17/09/2018 to 15/12/2018 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
Oral exam
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