“...As a professor in Finance, I´ve always believed in the experience of “real life” as an extremely useful tool to provide the soundest insights of the financial world to my students. This implies distributing a proportionate amount of theory and practice on your day to day workload with the class. Nonetheless, with regards to practice, it should rely as most as possible on personal experiences when confronting what are the main financial products, how they work and what are they useful for. Although this may sound quite straightforward, I will always stress it as much as possible. Practical exercise is not only about compounding a few numbers into theoretical definitions. If your old enough to have “played” at least once with almost all sorts of situations, most likely, your personal experiences (with, say, derivatives products) will bring about more light to real understanding of what lies behind them than with pure mechanical exercises. To this philosophy I abide faithfully. And my feedback from students reaffirms my convictions on this issue...”
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