Financial Derivatives
Financial Derivatives
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
- Derivatives Markets and Instruments: Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps
- Pricing of Equity, Fixed Income, and Currency Derivatives
- Hedging Using Derivatives
- Financial Engineering
Teaching Method
Lecture
Learning Results
Students …
- know how derivatives and derivatives markets work,
- apply standard models to price financial derivatives,
- use Greek variables in risk management and financial engineering,
- devise and/or analyze derivatives strategies for speculation, hedging and arbitrage,
- combine basic instruments to achieve desired payoff structures/decompose payoff structures into their basic components.
Assessment Methods
See lecture(s) within the module
Applied Portfolio Management
Applied Portfolio Management
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
This module covers the practical application and implementation of concepts in portfolio management. Using an online tool with real and live market data, student groups manage their own portfolio throughout the semester. This includes the specification of an investment strategy at the beginning of the course, frequent trading and writing a fund brochure and performance report.
Learning Objectives
After completion of the module, the students are able to:
> manage their own investment portfolio
> translate real time financial information into investment decision
> develop and formulate an investment strategy
> write a fund brochure
> conduct a performance review and reporting
> manage their own investment portfolio
> translate real time financial information into investment decision
> develop and formulate an investment strategy
> write a fund brochure
> conduct a performance review and reporting
Learning Results
> Students are able to critically evaluate financial information
> Students can appropriately translate financial information into investment decisions
> Students understand and appropriately apply portfolio management methods
> Students are able to effectively communicate performance results to peers
> Students can appropriately translate financial information into investment decisions
> Students understand and appropriately apply portfolio management methods
> Students are able to effectively communicate performance results to peers
Assessment Methods
See lectures within the module.
LL.M. 22: Module 9 - International Private Wealth Management: Finance, Law and Taxes
LL.M. 22: Module 9 - International Private Wealth Management: Finance, Law and Taxes
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Executive Master of Laws in Banking and Financial Market Law
Executive Master of Laws in Company, Foundation and Trust Law
Executive Master of Laws in International Taxation
Project Description
Interdisciplinary workshop, in which students from the three Executive Master's Degree Programmes jointly analyse, discuss and present cross-border case studies dealing with specific overarching topics in the field of international private wealth management.
International Taxtation: Enterprises, Structures & Individuals
International Taxtation: Enterprises, Structures & Individuals
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
- Einführung
- Nationale und internationale Unternehmensbesteuerung: Liechtenstein, Schweiz, Österreich, Deutschland
- Körperschaftsteuersysteme
- Rechtsform- und Finanzierungswahl
- Konzernsteuerquote
- Internationale Unternehmensbesteuerung: Direktgeschäfte, Betriebsstätten, Tochtergesellschaften
- Internationale Steuerplanung: Vermögensstrukturen
- Internationale Steuerplanung: Finanzinstrumente
- Europäisches Steuerrecht
Requirements (formal)
- Für die Anmeldung zu Modulen der Vertiefungsrichtung müssen die Module Statistik, Wirtschaftsmathematik und English I erfolgreich absolviert sein.
- Zusätzlich muss für die Anmeldung zur Vertiefung IFS das Modul Finanzierung erfolgreich absolviert sein.
Seminar In Finance
Seminar In Finance
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
- Risk modelling
- Strategical and tactical asset allocation
- International diversification
- Forecasting moments of asset returns
- Foreign exchange rate risks and management
- Portfolio management
- Performance analysis
- Behavioural finance
- Dividend policy
- Company valuation
- Legal and tax issues in financial decisions
Teaching Method
Seminar
Learning Results
- Students have at their command detailed knowledge of finance and have a critical understanding of the procedures and methods in the subject area
- Compiling and utilising available sources in order to acquire an overview of previously unfamiliar sub-areas
- Preparing research papers on assigned topics or shorter empirical or analytical research projects by applying exacting technical procedures and methods
Course Materials
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Educational Journey 2025 - Innovative Finance in Asia
Educational Journey 2025 - Innovative Finance in Asia
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Master's degree programme in Innovative Finance
Project Description
Master students have the opportunity to take part in educational journeys to the world’s most important financial centres. Taking place
Teaching Method
Excursion
Learning Objectives
- After successfull completion of this module, students know the role of international enterprises and organizations including banks, asset or hedge fund management services, portfolio managers, insurance companies, chambers of foreign trade, chambers of commerce, supranational organisations, ambassadors, politicians or universities in structuring the competitiveness of a financial market;know the specifities of the visited financial market; established an international and intercultural network.
Assessment Methods
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Strategic Management
Strategic Management
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
- Einführung in die Grundlagen des strategischen Managements
- Strategieprozess
- Umfeldanalysen
- Stakeholderanalysen
- Unternehmensanalysen
- Portfolioanalysen
- Generische Strategien
- Strategische Beratungsansätze
- Strategisches Innovationsmanagement
- Strategische Zielsetzungen und Controlling
- Strategische Organisationsentwicklung
- Strategiekommunikation
RW I: Financial Accounting
RW I: Financial Accounting
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
- Grundlagen des betrieblichen Rechnungswesens,
- Inventur und Inventar,
- Buchungsarten (Bestandsbuchung, Erfolgsbuchungen, Privat-Buchungen, Verbuchung des Warenverkehrs),
- Rechnungsausgleich unter Berücksichtigung von Warenrücksendungen, Rabatten und Skonti,
- Erfolgsermittlung,
- Belegorganisation,
- Systematik und Verbuchung der Umsatzsteuer,
- Verbuchung sonstiger laufender Geschäftsfälle im Handels- und Produktionsbetrieb,
- Lohn- und Gehaltsverbuchung,
- Debitoren- und Kreditoren-Buchhaltung,
- Buchungsprobleme des Anlagevermögens (planmässige Abschreibung, ausserplanmässige Abschreibung, Zuschreibung, Sonderformen der Abschreibung, Anlagenverzeichnis),
- Buchungsprobleme des Umlaufvermögens (Wareneinsatzermittlungsarten, Arten der Forderungsbewertung, Bestandsveränderungen),
- Rechnungsabgrenzungen, Rückstellungen, Verbindlichkeiten,
- Problematik stiller Reserven (Bildung bzw Aufdeckung).
Process Management
Process Management
Study Programmes
Master of Business Administration in Technology and Innovation
Teaching Method
Präsentationen, Fallstudien, Diskussionen
Assessment Methods
Präsentation und Fallstudienanalyse
Educational Journey 1
Educational Journey 1
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
- Praktische Einblicke in das Umfeld verschiedener Unternehmungen
- Verknüpfung der betriebswirtschaftlichen Theorie mit der Praxis
- Diskussionen mit Unternehmern
- Interkulturelle Verschiedenheiten kennen und verstehen lernen
Teaching Method
- Einwöchige Exkursion
- Praktische Einblicke in ein neues Umfeld
- Interaktive Übungen
- Workshops