MFIN8860 · Finance
Carroll School of Management
This course is reserved for special topics, offering advanced course work in sub-fields of finance. This year, MFIN8860 is an introduction to derivative assets, financial engineering, and risk management. The course covers the pricing of futures and options contracts as well as securities that contain embedded options, risk management strategies using positions in derivative securities, static hedging, and dynamic hedging. Applications from commodity, equity, bond, and mortgage-backed markets are considered.STEM-designated
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.6 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.7 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.4 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.5 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Part Time Faculty, Finance, Carroll School of Management
4.1 / 5
3.9 / 5
Professor, Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship, Finance, Carroll School of Management
4.5 / 5
4.3 / 5
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Finance, Carroll School of Management
4.6 / 5
4.6 / 5
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Finance, Carroll School of Management
4.4 / 5
4.2 / 5
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
2 sectionsFall 2024
1 sectionSpring 2024
2 sectionsFall 2023
1 sectionSummer 2023
1 sectionSpring 2023
2 sectionsFall 2022
1 sectionSummer 2022
1 sectionSpring 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
1 sectionSummer 2021
1 sectionSpring 2021
2 sections