https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/ECBS5184?type=COREThis course teaches financial theory and the quantitative tools necessary for understanding how asset prices are determined, and how to use invest in financial assets. The course continues from Trading and Portfolio Theory with a focus on pricing, trading, and the uses of specific asset classes - including stocks, bonds, and derivatives - and introduces students to recent findings on sustainable finance. The course is quantitative and challenging. It takes a rigorous and critical view of the process of investing. The aim is to provide the students with a lasting conceptual framework in which to view and analyze investment decisions. The course will relate the material to current financial news, the recent financial crisis and problems relevant to the practitioner. Students will also get first-hand experience in trading using a real-time brokerage account.