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Finance Theory I (15.401)

MIT Sloan's graduate finance course by Andrew Lo, with full video lectures, slides, problem sets and exams.

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This MIT OpenCourseWare course publishes Prof. Andrew Lo's introductory graduate finance class in full. It covers present value, fixed income, equities, forwards, futures and options, risk and return, portfolio theory, CAPM and APT, capital budgeting and market efficiency, with problem sets and exams with solutions.

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What you will be able to do

  • Value cash flows with present value methods
  • Price bonds, stocks and simple derivatives
  • Apply portfolio theory and the CAPM
  • Evaluate investments with capital budgeting
  • Discuss evidence on market efficiency

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