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