Financial Derivatives (E311) is an elective for PGDM students at FORE School of Management. The course builds working command of forwards, futures, swaps and options, with concept anchored in Indian markets. Students studied contracts, design hedges, and test textbook results against live exchange data, including real lot sizes, expiry conventions and trading costs (STT, CTT, brokerage). Classes combine lectures with debates, paired problems and Indian worked examples. Assessment includes a quiz, a group hedging project, case analysis, an Individual Market Analysis and an end-term exam.

Instructor: Dr. Vikas Pandey, Assistant Professor of Finance & Accounting

Prescribed text: J. C. Hull, Fundamentals of Futures and Options Market