
Explore the investment setting by defining investment, market participants, and real and financial assets; master asset allocation and security selection amid risks, inflation, taxes, and trading frictions.
Understand risk and return in investment management, including risk as uncertainty, return as wealth change, and how standard deviation, mean-variance utility, and normal distribution shape decisions.
Explore Markowitz optimal risky portfolios, diversification benefits, portfolio variance and correlation effects, the efficient frontier, the Sharpe ratio, and the capital market line.
Explore asset pricing models including CAPM, APT, and factor pricing models, and learn how beta, market portfolio, and macroeconomic factors determine expected returns.
Analyze market efficiency and asset pricing through the efficient market hypothesis, its weak, semi-strong, and strong forms, and the random walk, guiding portfolio management decisions.
Explore equity valuation using discounted cash flow methods (dividend discount model and free cash flow to equity) and relative valuation, while understanding market value, intrinsic value, and book value limitations.
Learn how to value bonds and manage bond portfolios by understanding valuation, yield to maturity, duration, and convexity, and apply indexing and immunization strategies for fixed-income risk control.
Analyze momentum, value, and growth investing and how screening, including Ben Graham screens, and activist value investing influence portfolio management.
Explore behavioral finance and market anomalies that challenge efficient market predictions, including framing, mental accounting, and regret avoidance, and examine how price adjustments and moving average reveal non-rational trading patterns.
Examine performance evaluation in portfolio management, using mean-variance, Sharpe and Treynor ratios, Jensen's alpha, Modigliani (M2), and information ratio to assess risk-adjusted benchmark performance.
Investments refer to any process that used for generating future income. The assets include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, property, etc. This course will focus on the decision to invest in the securities in the capital market. It begins with an overview of investment environment and products, and then provides students with a solid foundation in modern portfolio theory and demonstrates its applications to portfolio management. This course provides knowledge and techniques for student to analyze, construct and evaluate an investment and portfolio management.
The topics cover the investment background and environment, the investment theory including mean variance, markowitz optimal risky portfolio, asset pricing models, valuation of securities, investment strategies, assessing and controlling portfolio risk. Some of market anomalies are also discussed in this course. This course points to critical thinking, analytical dan problem solving skills in the context of portfolio construction and management. This course also consists of measurement or evaluation of the performance of portfolios.
The students could accomplish this course in 45-50 minutes and required to answer the quiz as the assessment of this course. Upon completion of this course, student will be able to understand basic theory of portfolio management, as well as constructing and managing portfolio of assets.