NOVA Information Management School

Investments and Portfolio Management

Code

200160

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

7.5

Teacher in charge

Luís Vasco Lourenço Pinheiro

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Objectives

The course covers topics related to financial investments and portfolio management, including the organization and functioning of financial markets (money market, capital market, FOREX, derivatives,...), the fundamentals of fixed income instruments, equity valuation, derivative instruments, portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, the risk-return trade-off, market efficiency, measuring risk-adjusted performance, Performance attribution and decomposition: asset selection and asset allocation, International diversification, Multi-factor models and active portfolio management, market timing, style investing and the Treynor-Black model. A hands-on approach is used with real case studies and exercises.

Prerequisites

NA

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