Courses Handbook 2010

9753 (v.6) Finance (Portfolio Management) 301


Area: School of Economics and Finance
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 2807 (v.5) Finance (Managerial) 212 or any previous version
OR
12607 (v.3) Finance (Principles) 215 or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit covers the essential theories and their application to the practice of security analysis and portfolio management. Concepts discussed include mean-variance analysis, portfolio optimisation, asset pricing theory, market efficiency, security analysis, fixed income portfolio management, portfolio risk management using derivatives and portfolio performance evaluation techniques. Students will also be provided with an awareness of the on-going developments, and controversies in this area of Finance.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 081105 Investment and Securities
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Summer School Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Sydney Campus Semester 1S Y        
2010 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Study Period 1 Y        
2010 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 1 Y        
2010 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 2 Y        
2010 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Study Period 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 UHK SPACE Main Campus Trimester 1A Y        
2010 UKRIDA Penabur International Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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