MGMT 239Bonds, Options, and Currencies Investment
Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Students are prepared to understand and manage investments in non-equity markets including bonds or fixed income markets, derivatives markets such as futures and options, and international financial markets including currencies and swaps. Covers topics from basics to current investment strategies in each space. Discussion of macro and market risks and relevant regulatory changes and financial innovations. Emphasis on links to current events and what is happening in the real economy. Covers foundational material needed to be proficient in investment management on buy or sell side of these asset classes. Students may go on to study fixed income, international finance, and/or derivatives.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Management-Executive MBA 408 or Management-Full-Time MBA 408 or Management-Fully Employed MBA 408.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MGMT 239
- MGMTEX 408Financial Policy for Managers
- MGMTFE 408Foundations of Finance
- MGMTFT 408Foundations of Finance
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.