78369 - Financial Institutions Management

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Docente: Roberta Adami
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: SECS-P/11
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics (cod. 8408)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course students will be provided with the knowledge and understanding of corporate and investment banking activities, with special focus on investment fund and portfolio management. By the end of this course students will be equipped with:

a thorough knowledge on the distinctive characteristics of Investment Banking, Underwriting, Buyouts & Structured Finance

a deep understanding of risks and risk management tools such as derivatives, including their definition, strategies and valuation

the financial tools needed to evaluate investment and financing decisions in high-growth firms.

Course contents

The contents of this course will focus on a series of topics such as:

-International Financial Markets Analysis

-Investment Banking and Investment Funds activities

-Security analysis

-Risks and risk management

-Derivatives

Readings/Bibliography

Investments by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, McGraw Hill Editor

Teaching methods

Teaching methods include lectures to introduce and examine the different topics, and tutorials or workshops where students will be required to intervene and solve problems or discuss real life examples by working in small groups 

Assessment methods

End of term project to be presented and discussed in class, again this should be carried out in small groups

or

end of term written examination

Teaching tools

Additional examples besides those in the textbook will be brought in class for discussion, the internet, financial press and academic journals will be used widely to further analyse topics presented in the lectures

Office hours

See the website of Roberta Adami