Courses Bachelor Display 2013-2014
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| Course title | Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course code | EBC2054 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ECTS credits | 6,5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assessment | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Level | Intermediate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator |
Roger Otten For more information: r.otten@maastrichtuniversity.nl |
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| Language of instruction | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goals |
Learn to manage portfolio of financial assets.
Apply to real life cases. |
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| Description |
The purpose of this course is to study how portfolios of assets are build by investors. Next to traditional assets like stocks we look at the added value of real estate, mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity to build diversified portfolios. In addition to that we will study how actual trading takes place based on the experience of an actual broker on the exchange. Finally the course will provide an intro on how to collect financial data from the vast resources that are out there. We have arranged access for all students to the leading financial database, FactSet, during the course. These data-collecting skills are crucial when solving assignments in general and a master’s thesis in particular.
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| Literature |
Bodie, Kane and Marcus, Essentials of Investments, 9th Global edition, 2012, Mc Graw-Hill + articles to be distributed.
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| Prerequisites |
Knowledge and understanding of: portfolio theory (CAPM), basics of derivatives (options futures, forward) and basics of statistics (OLS regression). Exchange students need to have taken at least one introductory finance course. An advanced level of English
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| Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | Written Exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evaluation in previous academic year | For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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