Market Securities Analysis andPortfolio Management (FIN 5308)
Term: 2024-2025 Academic Year - Fall Semester
Description
Pre-requisite: FIN 5305
This course offers accurate and intuitive coverage of investments, with an emphasis on portfolio theory. It includes extensive discussion of capital asset pricing, arbitrage pricing, pricing of derivative securities, interest rates, and bond management. Stock valuation, estimating future earnings and dividends, and fixed income markets are examined closely. Major emphasis is on how global capital markets function and measurement of performance of investment portfolios. At a minimum, the following subjects will be discussed: global capital markets, organization of securities markets, investor behavior toward risk, security valuation, analysis and management of common stocks and fixed income securities, behavior of security prices, development of modern portfolio theory, and portfolio management.