Key words
The stock market and investments.
Objectives
Knowledge :- students gain insight in the different investment products and their markets.
- Students get familiar with financial terminology.
- Students can evaluate and compare different investment instruments; profitability can be calculated; risks and liquidity can be evaluated.
- Students can follow up quotations.
Skills and attitudes :- student learns to think in a problem solving way.
- Student learns to be critical towards received financial information.
Topics
- investment criteria : return, risk, liquidity, costs, fiscal aspects
- cash products
- bonds and bond markets
- shares and share markets
- derivatives
- investment funds
- principles of portfolio analysis
Prerequisites
Simple and compound interest calculation.
Basics of economics.
Final Objectives
Materials used
Syllabus, internet, financial news paper.
Study costs
Study guidance
Teaching Methods
Lectures, discussions, exercices.
Assessment
First exam session: 100 % written exam
Second exam session: 100 % written exam
Examination Board Flemish Community (ditto regular student)
Lecturer(s)
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