12751 (v.3) Finance (Portfolio Management) 571

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):

305813 (v.3) Finance (Principles) 515 or any previous version

Syllabus:

Essentials of investment, security analysis and portfolio selection, mean variance criterion and portfolio selection, tracing the efficient frontier, single index model, capital asset pricing model, use of options and futures in portfolio management, fixed income security analysis and portfolio management, portfolio performance measures.

** 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

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

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
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y			Y
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y
2005	Bentley Campus	Study Period 1 (Summer)	Y
2005	Open University HK	Trimester 1A	Y
2005	Open University HK	Trimester 3A	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