Introduction
The following web course, Models for Financial Economics, was originally developed in 2009 for ACTEX Learning (New Hartford, CT) to be used as part of an online course and in a webcast offered to prepare students taking SOA Exam MFE/CAS Exam 3F, where SOA and CAS designate the Society of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society, respectively. The content of this exam has continued to evolve since that time, so this web course will no longer be complete for this purpose, but nonetheless will provide students of quantitative finance an introduction to much of the material in Robert McDonald’s book, Derivatives Markets (Pearson, 2nd Ed.). The videographer and editor for this web course was David Desrocher (Emerger Media, Hartford, CT).