Overview
Description
A comprehensive analysis of the practice of evaluating equity securities and the process of combining securities into portfolios with emphasis on management strategies of portfolio managers.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Business major or minor.
FIN 307
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
FIN 307; Business major or minor.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Business major or minor.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of different financial assets such as money market instruments, bonds, and stocks.
- create an “efficient” portfolio with optimal risk-return characteristics.
- derive the efficient frontier with no short sales allowed/with short sales allowed/with riskless lending and borrowing.
- demonstrate understanding of the correlation structure of security returns as demonstrated by the single-index and mutil-index models.