This program will provide an introduction to the regulation, trading and documentation of exchange-traded futures contracts and over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivatives. It will examine the key ...

Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

Professor Petersen's Financial Strategy and Tax course (Finance 447) will use Canvas this quarter. Supplementary course materials and files can be found there. The current course syllabus can be found ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Financial derivatives are financial instruments that are linked to a specific financial instrument or indicator or commodity, and through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Derivatives are a kind of ...

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...