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EF5063 - Professional Seminars in Finance

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Economics and Finance
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
Year-long
Course Offering Term*:
Semester A 2023/24, Semester B 2023/24, Summer 2024

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course aims at helping students develop insights about some of the latest developments in the economy and the financial markets, and to acquire knowledge about some of the current practices in the financial markets.

Through seminars delivered by financial experts and business professionals on the latest developments in the financial markets, business and current issues, students get to develop their discovery skills for analysing the latest issues in the financial markets.

To evaluate students’ accomplishments of discovery in putting forward their own analyses, and recommendations where applicable, students are required to write two reports for the course. Students may expand on what the speakers lecture on for their reports. 

The individual reports reflect students’ own analyses of the issues that the speakers lecture on and provide evidence of their accomplishments of discovery. As some seminars are related to current issues with no definite resolutions of the problems, students may provide their own viewpoints in their reports that are opposite to what the speakers would present as long as they justify these views using their own analyses and recommendations. Some of these current issues may include predicting whether a particular central bank will loosen or tighten monetary policy, whether there should be higher capital adequacy requirements on banks, etc.

Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 
Detailed Course Information

EF5063.pdf

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Department of Economics and Finance