MIT S11: Options II
This video lecture covers interpreting payoff diagrams of call and put options and how to use the diagrams in option strategizing and betting on volatility. A brief historical bac…
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MIT S12: Options III & Risk and Return I
This video lecture continues to cover option pricing by deriving a generalized binomial model, and the implications of the conditions under which the formula holds. The second par…
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MIT S13: Risk and Return II & Portfolio Theory I
This video lecture covers empirical properties of stocks and bonds, patterns of returns, and statistical measures of risk of a security. At the very end, stock market anomalies su…
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MIT S14: Portfolio Theory II
This video lecture walks through calculating properties of mean and variance for portfolio returns. Mean, standard deviation, and correlation are used as measures in portfolio ana…
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MIT S15: Portfolio Theory III & The CAPM and APT I
This video lecture introduces the tangency portfolio and the Sharpe ratio as a measure of risk/reward trade-off. The second part begins with a review of portfolio theory and prese…
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MIT S16: The CAPM and APT II
This video lecture covers how to calculate a proper discount rate, the application of CAPM, and performance evaluation using the security market line.
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MIT S17: The CAPM and APT III & Capital Budgeting I
This video lecture starts with an example that uses CAPM to explain market-cap portfolios. Different methods of sorting, including by size, beta, and volatility, are analyzed. The…
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MIT S18: Capital Budgeting II & Efficient Markets I
This video lecture presents applications of the NPV rule and project financing, as well as alternatives to NPV. Concepts presented include the profitability index, internal rate o…
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MIT S19: Efficient Markets II
This video lecture explores behavioral finance, why people avoid uncertainty, the link between rationality and human emotion, and human preferences for decision-making. Discussion…
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MIT S2: Present Value Relations I
This video lecture presents the definition of an asset as a sequence of current and future cash flows, and the implications of that definition. Valuation of cash flows is presente…
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MIT S20: Efficient Markets III & course summary
This video lecture presents the limitations of CAPM and the practical implications of the adaptive markets hypothesis. Applications of the adaptive markets hypothesis are then pla…
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MIT S3: Present Value Relations II
This video lecture covers examples on calculating net present value, comparing perpetuities and annuities, and conventions for compounding.
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