Investments with integrated GenAI tools (880N1)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll explore finance theory and its practical applications for investors, analysts and portfolio managers.

You’ll cover:

• the concepts of risk and return
• portfolio theory, capital asset pricing and other pricing models for risky assets
• how to assess market efficiency, pricing anomalies and behavioural finance
• the implications for hedging, speculation and arbitrage
• specific financial instruments, such as debt markets, foreign exchange markets and derivative markets – including options, forwards, futures and swaps
• the use of GenAI tools to support learning in financial investments.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.