This unit comprises up to 26 lecture hours and up to 26 lab/workshop hours. It will provide students who pursue careers in the finance industry with the statistical tools needed to track the performance and volatility of financial markets and instruments in equities, futures, options, bonds and currencies. It will also provide students with an understanding of models used to value financial assets. Students will deal with real market data and problems faced by fund managers and bond and currency dealers. They will use the capital asset pricing model, the arbitrage pricing model and derivative valuation models, as well as time series models for the analysis of market data.