4th year Finance courses @ UTSG

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Anyone have any inputs on them in terms learning experience, workload, professors, difficulty etc?

RSM 430 Fixed Income Securities
RSM 431 Advanced Corporate Finance
RSM 435 Futures and Options Markets
RSM 432 Risk Management
RSM 437 International Financial Management

[206bw]

I took Futures and Options Markets at UTSC (MGTC71) with Jason Wei: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~wei/

The course is very interesting, useful and pratical if you plan to go into investment/trades type of finance. Or even for personal investment if you have the $$.
Also worth mentioning is that, a friend of mine's employer originally wanted her to complete the CSC course before her coop workterm starts, but knowing she took the futures & options coures, she was exempted from that csc course.

Workload wise, it is very very heavy, you have to keep doing problem sets and try understand things in a different way.
The coures starts off pretty easy going, but gets really, really hard after a bit. We end up getting about a 10+% curve upward to a C+ average.

Risk management is an extension of Futures and Options, so i would expect similar experience.
Advanced Corporate Finance is extension of intro and intermediate corp finance, those 2 courses should be a good indicator.

I heard M&A is a very interest course if you are into internal/corporate finance and strategies, you might want to consider that.

[AirplaneKing]

Thanks for the insights. For the Futures and Options Markets, is it a lot of working with pricing models or is it more geared towards how to hedge risk properly or what type of option strategies could potentially be profitable for traders?

Appreciate your thoughts.

[adehbone]

man UTSG has a Fixed Income dedicated course that makes me quite jealous.

Overall I would say for any 4th year finance course at any university, screw workload, focus on the professor and what your interested in. Sometimes the hardest courses are the most valuable, no point in taking the easy way out.