4006590: Portfoliomanagement and Financial Analysis

Qualifications

• • Know the basic asset classes and their respective financial instruments.
  • Know the difference between strategical and tactical asset allocation.
  • List the requirements and repeat the basic concepts of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Know the difference between Sharpe-Ratio and Information-Ratio
  • List the requirements and how to derive the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
  • Know how to extend the Single-index-Model to Multi-Factor Models.
  • Know the concepts of Arbitrage and how to derive the resulting model of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
  • Understand the basic financial instruments and their pricing.
  • Describe the optimal investment process.
  • Understand portfolio statistics and underlying statistical concepts.
  • Explain the difference between risky and risk-free assets.
  • Describe the outcomes of portfolio theory in a risk-return diagram.
  • Understand the concept of risk, its decomposition into unsystematic and systematic risk, and the effects of (naïve) diversification.
  • Understand the concept of beta in the Single-Index Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and the market risk-premium in context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and factor portfolios in the Multi-Factor-Model.
  • Understand the concepts of Arbitrage.
  • Understand why APT is a much more general concept of market equilibrium than CAPM.
  • Understand the working and pricing of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the term structure of interest rates and their influence on the prices of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the implications of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis on financial markets.
  • Calculate the risk and return of financial instruments based on observable market values.
  • Calculate the Minimum-Variance-Portfolio.
  • Calculate the optimal risky portfolio.
  • Calculate the idiosyncratic and the market-specific risk of a portfolio.
  • Calculate an optimal portfolio in the context of Single-Index-Models.
  • Calculate the Security Market Line in the CAPM and derive Arbitrage Opportunities thereon.
  • Calculate Bond Yields, Duration and other measures of fixed income securities and fixed income portfolios.
  • Know how to design an event study to test and identify flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
  • Perform financial statement analysis.
  • Estimate Index-Models, and how to derive an optimal portfolio in this context.
  • Analyze financial instruments in the common context of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Understand the Two-Fund Separation Theorem and derive the Capital Market Line.
  • Find Arbitrage Opportunities.
  • Relate different concepts of market equilibrium.
  • Identify and exploit arbitrage opportunities.
  • Identify the efficiency of financial markets.
  • Combine different assets in an optimal portfolio.
  • Relate the concept of the risk-return tradeoff to the optimal allocation of assets.
  • Relate the concept of the Efficient Market Theory to observed market conditions.
  • Evaluate the different models in the context of changing market conditions.
  • Decide upon investment opportunities by evaluating any type of equity and fixed income securities.
  • Evaluate equity and fixed income instruments.
  • Evaluate optimal allocations of assets in the Markowitz Context.
• • Know the requirements for the basic models of portfolio optimization and market equilibrium theory.
  • Understand the implications and flaws of these models.
  • Apply these models in changing market conditions.
  • Find and use the model needed in a specific situation/setting.
  • Apply the models in individual assignments and in a group business game.
  • Evaluate outcomes and discuss them critically.
  • Understand the applicability and validity of the different models.
  • Evaluate models and decide upon which of the models fits their needs best.
• • Understand and critically discuss the arguments of fellow students.
  • Work together in small groups to solve assignments and small examples discussed in class.
  • Evaluate the solutions of fellow students; explain carefully why they might be right or wrong.
  • Understand the flaws and problems of fellow students, reaction without offense.
  • React to other opinions and defend their solution without being offended.
• • Listen carefully, read and repeat, practice until they understand the logic and mathematics behind models.
  • Work together and motivate students who tend to give up as a reaction to the difficulty of mathematical problems.
  • Take responsibility and organize/explain solutions to others who have problems and tend to give up.