FM03 - Financial Markets

 

This term I am teaching the course Financial Markets FM03 at King's College London. Below I am posting lecture notes, slides, handwritten notes taken in class.

The recommended reference is the textbook: "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" by John Hull.

Lecture 1: Interest Rates, Bonds and Treasuries

Handwritten notes for Lecture 1

Lecture 2: Swaps

Handwritten notes for Lecture 2

Lecture 3: Exotic Swaps and Counterparty Credit Risk

Handwritten notes for Lecture 3

Lecture 4: Equity Options

Handwritten notes for Lecture 4

Lecture 5: Variance Swaps

Handwritten notes for Lecture 5

Lecture 6: Arbitrage free pricing

Handwritten notes for Lecture 6

Lecture 7: The Black-Scholes formula for equity options and swaptions

Handwritten notes for Lecture 7

Lecture 8: The Black-Scholes formula for equity options and swaptions

Handwritten notes for Lecture 8

Lecture 9: Further exercises on the Black-Scholes formula

Handwritten notes for Lecture 9

Past Exams

2009 exam with solutions.

2010 warm up exam with solutions.

2010 exam

2010 exam with solutions

2011 exam

2011 exam with solutions