Financial Instruments and Markets Specialization
The financial instruments and markets specialization includes courses on equity markets and debt instruments, as well as futures and options and other more specialized topics. This specialization focuses primarily on understanding the markets in which various financial instruments are traded and understanding the factors that influence the return and risk characteristics of financial instruments, both individually and in portfolios. The financial instruments and markets specialization may be suitable for students pursuing careers in the securities industry or the broad area of investment management.
Academic Advisor: Professor Yakov Amihud, 212-998-0720
Course List
Take 9 credits from the following list, of which at least 6 credits are FINC-GB courses.
Course Number | Course Title |
FINC-GB.2175 | Managing Climate, Cyber, Geopolitical, and Financial risk |
FINC-GB.2334 | Financial Service Industry |
FINC-GB.2339 | Real Estate Capital Markets |
FINC-GB.2341 | Real Estate Investment Strategy |
FINC-GB.2347 | Climate Finance: An Economic and Financial Approach to Climate Change |
FINC-GB.2375 | Managing Climate, Cyber, Geopolitical, and Financial risk |
FINC-GB.2382 | Global Value Investing |
FINC-GB.2386 | Chinese Financial Markets |
FINC-GB.3103 | International Finance-International Investments Analysis |
FINC-GB.3106 | Topics in Credit Risk |
FINC-GB.3129 | Behavioral and Experimental Finance |
FINC-GB.3155 | Financial Analysis in Healthcare |
FINC-GB.3176 | Topics in Investment |
FINC-GB.3165 | Topics in Private Equity Finance |
FINC-GB.3173 | Venture Capital Financing |
FINC-GB.3176 | Topics in Investments |
FINC-GB.3180 | Topics in Cryptocurrency Investing |
FINC-GB.3182 | Global Value Investing |
FINC-GB.3186 | Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment |
FINC-GB.3198 | Bankruptcy and Reorganization |
FINC-GB.3199 | Case Studies in Bankruptcy & Reorganization |
FINC-GB.3306 | Credit Risk & Bankruptcy |
FINC-GB.3324 | Digital Currency, Blockchains, & Future of Financial Services |
FINC-GB.3331 | Valuation |
FINC-GB.3332 | Portfolio Management |
FINC-GB.3333 | Debt Instruments and Markets |
FINC-GB.3335 | Futures and Options |
FINC-GB.3348 | Investing for Environmental and Social Impact |
FINC-GB.3357 | Private Investing and Wealth Management |
FINC-GB.3365 | Private Equity Finance |
FINC-GB.3373 | New Venture Financing |
FINC-GB.3384 | Emerging Financial Markets |
INTA-GB.2324 | Business, Economy and Policy in the midst of COVID-19 |
TECH-GB.2350 | Robo Advisors and Systematic Trading |
TECH-GB.3350 | Financial Information Systems |
STAT-GB.2308 | Applied Stochastic Processes for Financial Models |
STAT-GB.3321 | Introduction to Stochastic Processes |
For course descriptions, please see the Office of Records & Registration website.