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Week 3: Closing thoughts

To round up Week 3 of this course, in this video Dr Hong Bo provides a summary of the key content, including futures, options and forward contracts.

In this short video, Dr Hong Bo summarises some of the key topics discussed in Week 3.

She outlines how investors use futures, options and forward contracts and explains their key differences. She also introduces next week’s sessions, where we will be examining how financial derivatives can be applied in risk management, for both financial and non-financial firms.

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