QUANTITATIVE
FINANCE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This Financial Mathematics course gears towards targeting students with zero or little experience in financial mathematics, but with a solid quantitative background. The goal is to understand how financial markets, derivative pricing and risk management work which will be a good start for to more advanced topics in mathematical finance areas.
PROJECT CURRICULUM
INDUSTRY INSTRUCTOR

HAMID ELAHI
FINANCE LECTURER
Hamid is a Ph.D. candidate of Management Science at Ivey Business School. He also has a master's degree in Money and Finance from the House of Finance, Goethe University, Germany. For his master's thesis, he worked on the pricing of exotic options in a stochastic volatility environment. He is continually teaching Financial Derivatives courses at King's University College at Western University.
CURRICULUM &
INSTRUCTOR
COURSE TOPICS
- DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
- BROWNIAN MOTION AND ITO’S LEMMA
- RISK-NEUTRAL MEASURE
- PRICING USING BINOMIAL TREES AND BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL
- RISK SENSITIVITIES
- FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND TRADING STRATEGIES
- VALUE AT RISK (VAR)
- INTRODUCTION TO BONDS, SWAPS AND DISCOUNT CURVES
- CREDIT RISK MODELLING
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