Quantitative Methods for Finance
1. Mathematics of Interest Rate and Asset Returns (e.g. Time Value of Money) 2. The Basic Statistics of Finance (Measures of Location, Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis, Covariance and Correlation, Index Numbers) 3. Calculus 4.Probability Distributions of Asset Returns 5. Sampling Theory and Hypothesis Testing 6. Regression Analysis Applied to Finance 7. Time Series Analysis - Arch, Garch and Cointegration 8. Numerical Methods 9. Optimization 10. Stochastic Calculus 11. Multivariate Techniques