This course introduces students to the main concepts and models in the area of asset pricing and their applications to investment problems. The course covers three blocks of topics:
1. Analysis in connection with the three main types of financial instruments:
- Stocks
- Interest rate instruments (bonds/bills)
- Derivatives (options, futures and forwards)
2. Further development of "standard portfolio theory":
- Portfolio analysis
- Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and new variants
- The efficiency characteristics of financial markets
- Investment analysis and portfolio management
- New management principles
3. Discussion of
- Pricing and valuation
- Management and strategies
- Institutional conditions