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Week - 1
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Introduction: Overview of Course, Objectives, and Expectations |
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Week - 2
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Overview of Financial Markets & Instruments: Investment Environment and Asset Classes |
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Week - 3
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Introduction to Financial Data in Excel: Downloading Price Series from Yahoo! & Investing.com, Cleaning, and Calculating Return |
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Week - 4
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Risk & Return: The Concepts, Expected Return, Variance and Standard Deviation, Modeling Volatility |
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Week - 5
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Portfolio Theory: Diversification, Covariance, and Correlation |
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Week - 6
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Portfolio Selection: Building a 2-Asset Model |
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Week - 7
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Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Model |
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Week - 8
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Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Model |
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Week - 9
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Optimization with Risk-Free Asset & Transaction Costs |
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Week - 10
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Optimization with Risk-Free Asset & Transaction Costs |
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Week - 11
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CAPM & Index Models: Systematic & Unsystematic Risk, Beta |
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Week - 12
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Fundamental Analysis |
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Week - 13
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Fundamental Analysis: Market Valuation |
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Week - 14
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Review & Case Study |