Investments

AY2024/2025 Semester 1

This is an introductory but demanding course in investments. This course endeavours to provide the basic understanding and tools to conduct portfolio analysis, make investment decisions, and manage portfolios. By the end of this course, students should have a broad understanding of investments and portfolio management. This course covers the analysis of various investment vehicles, allocation of assets, and modern portfolio theory. Students will learn valuation, portfolio construction and evaluation techniques, and apply investment techniques using Excel. Students are expected to review Financial Management. To maximize acquisition of new knowledge, the instructors will not cover overlapping topics with Financial Management, but these topics remain examinable.