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(i) To introduce different forms of market including stock market, options and future markets. (ii) To acquaint students with portfolio management and different asset pricing models including Capital Asset Pricing Model, Index Model and Arbitrage Pricing Model. (iii) To explain different mechanics of security analysis. (iv) To provide students sound idea on techniques of evaluating portfolio performance.

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1. Introduction: An Introduction to investment, Security Analysis, Security Security Analysis, portfolio and portfolio Management. 2. Investment Background: a) Investment Setting: Investment, Distinguishing Investment from Gambling and Speculation, Business Investment and Financial Investment, Measures of Return, Risk (Interest rate risk, purchasing power risk, Bull-bear market risk, Management risk, Default risk, Liquidity Risk, Callability risk, Convertibility risk, Taxability risk, political risk or country risk, Industry risk, and Additional risk) and Their Measures, Determinants of Required Rates of Return, Relationship between return and Risk. b) Asset Allocation Decision: Individual Investor Life Cycle, the portfolio Management process, Investor‘s policy statement (Need, Inputs – Objectives, Constraints, Construction), Importance of Asset Allocation. c) Selecting Investment in a Global Market: Reasons for Choosing Global Investments, Global Investments Choices. d) Organization and Functioning of Securities Markets: Markets, Financial Markets, primary Capital Markets, Secondary Capital Markets,– Definition, importance, Secondary Bond Markets, Financial Futures, Secondary Equity Markets; Regional Exchanges Markets and over the-Counter Market, Detailed Analysis of Exchange Markets – How Securities Are Traded, Types of Orders. e) Security- Use of Security-Market Indexes, Construction of Security- Market Indexes, Stock Market Indicator series (price-Weighed, Value- Weighed and Unweighed), bond Market Indicator series, Composite Stock-Bond indexes, Comparison of Indexes over Time. f) Sources of information on Global Investments. 3. Developments Investment Theory: a) Efficient Capital markets: meaning of Efficient markets, why Capital C should Be Efficient, random Walk hypothesis and Efficient markets Theory in Terms i\of fair Game model, Alternative Efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) – Weak-Form, Semistrong-form and strong- Form Efficient markets hypothesis, implications of Efficient Capital markets. b) portfolio Management: Utility Theory and Attitude toward Risk – Meaning of portfolio and portfolio Management, optimum portfolio and portfolio Theory – Markowitz portfolio Theory: Assumptions, measures of Risk and Return for an individual investment and a portfolio –A Two Asset Portfolio- A Three Asset Portfolio- Multi Asset Portfolio – The Efficient Frontier – investor Utility – Dominance principle and Optimum portfolio. c) Asset prancing models: an Overview of Capital Market Theory: background, Risk-free Asset and Combining it with Risky Assets, market portfolio, diversification and the Elimination of Unsystematic Risk, the Capital Market line (CML) and Risk Measures – Capital Asset prancing Model (CAPM) – Assumptions, Expected Return and Risk on a Risky Asst, the Security Market line (SML) , Identifying Undervalued and overvalued Assets, Calculating Systematic Risk, Empirical Tests of the CAPM, Extensions of the CAPM : Index Model- A Single-Index security Market (Systematic Riskvs. Firm-Specific Risk, Estimating the Index Model, the Index Model and diversification), The CAPM and the Index Model, Industry Version of the Index Model, Predicting Betas, Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) – Assumptions, the Theory, Well Diversified Portfolios and the APT, Individual Asset and the APT, A Multifactor APT, Empirical Tests of the APT. d) An Introduction to derivative markets and Securities and use of derivatives in portfolio Management: meaning of derivative markets and derivative Securities – Types of derivative Securities (Basic derivatives, Combination derivatives, packages of derivatives and embedded derivatives) – Language and Structure of Forward and Futures Markets and Option Markets – An Introduction to Using derivatives in portfolio Management. 4. Valuation Principles and Practices: An Introduction to Security Valuation: Valuation process Theory of Valuation, Valuation of Alternative Investments: bonds, preferred Stock and Common Stock-Approaches to the Valuation of Common Stock: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Techniques and Relative Valuation Techniques- Estimating the Inputs (Required Rate of Return and Expected Growth Rate of Valuation Variables); Analysis of Alternative Economies and Security Markets. 5. Analysis and Management of Bonds: Bonds Fundamentals - Analysis and Valuation of bonds: Fundamentals of bonds Valuation (present value model and yield model), Computing bond yields, bond Valuation, price Volatility for Bonds – Bond portfolio management Strategies: Alternative Bond portfolio Strategies: passive management Strategies, active Management Strategies, Global Fixed – income Investment Strategies, Matched Funding Techniques, Contingent procedures. 6. Analysis of Common Stock: Stock Market Analysis – macroeconomic and Industry Analysis – Company Analysis and Stock Selection - Technical Analysis – Equity portfolio Management Strategies. 7. Derivative Securities Analysis: Forward and Futures Contracts: An Overview of Forward and Futures Trading, Valuation of Forward and Futures – Option Contracts: An Overview of Option Markets and Contracts, Option Valuation – Swap Contracts, Convertible Securities, and Other Embedded Securities. 8. Investment Companies and Evaluating Portfolio Performance: a) Professional Asset Management: The Asset Management Industry, Managing Client portfolios – making Investment Decisions, Constraints, Asset Allocation in a portfolio (Equity, Debt and cash and Cash Equivalent) – Management of Investment Companies – Closed-End vs. Open End Investment Companies, Types of Investment Companies Based on portfolio Makeup, Global Investment Companies, performance of Investment Companies. b) Evaluation of portfolio performance: performance Measures: Sharpe‘s Measures, Treynor‘s Measure, Jensen‘s Measure, and Appraisal Ratio; Relationship the Various performance Measures.

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