The aim:
1. Provide a practical introduction to prepare students for today’s changing landscape of financial markets and investments.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Provide knowledge about financial markets and investments.

Acquired skills:
1. Students develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to respond to challenging situations in their future careers.

Acquired social skills:
1. To organize students’ thinking then examines the models as real-world scenarios from a practitioner’s perspective.

Course contents: 
1. The Investment Environment.
2. Return and Risk.
3. Market Efficiency and Behavioral Finance.
4. Financial Innovation.
5. Types of Securities Transactions.
6. The Time Value of Money.
7. Common Stocks.
8. Fixed-Income Securities.
9. Options.
10. Futures Markets and Securities.

Recommended reading: 
1. Fundamentals of Investing, Scott B. Smart, Lawrence J. Gitman, Michael D. Joehnk, Pearson Higher Education. Boston 2018.
2. The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Asset Management, Scherer and Kenneth Winston, Oxford University Press. Oxford 2011.

Additional reading: 
1. Financial Markets and Institutions: Global Edition, Frederic S. Mishkin, Stanley Eakins, , Pearson Higher Education. Boston 2018.
2. Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions: International Edition, Frank J. Fabozzi, Franco P. Modigliani, Frank J. Jonem, Pearson Higher Education. Boston 2018.