Zoologic: A Comprehensive Financial Curriculum
A fully blended program delivering analysis, design, implementation and assessment of high impact, end-to-end learning solutions, designed to demystify financial topics. Zoologic can help your learners to quickly grasp the “Financial Basics” in a course designed to introduction to the time value of money, yield curve, the term structure of interest rates, forward rates, the price yield relationship and basic duration concepts. In another course called Wealth Management and Estate Planning we cover equities, bonds, money market instruments, alternative investments and trust and estate planning. This curriculum teaches financial advisors how to manage client expectations and discusses financial planning, investment principles and specific investments with clients confidently and compellingly.
In the Fixed Income course the basics of short and long term securities, bond pricing, bond yield calculation, duration and convexity, and the Treasury bond auction process, discount and coupon instruments, the spot pricing model and extracting default probability from credit spreads. If you wish to keep your focus on Corporate Finance, our course teaches capital budgeting and the cost of capital, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and beta, return on capital, net present value and internal rate of return. A learner would do well to take this course in tandem with Derivative Products – Options, Forwards, Futures & Swaps. In this course definitions of option terminology, basic hedging and trading strategies, the binomial model, Black-Scholes and model inputs, intrinsic and time value and the Greeks. Futures and forwards, over-the-counter and exchange products, term structure model and forward rates, swap definitions, features and pricing. pangee.