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Portfolio Management and Valuation - AFCP801

This unit equips students to apply an advanced body of finance knowledge to a range of contexts. The unit commences with an individual investor's perspective and then progresses to the viewpoint of a professional funds manager. This enables the student to develop the ideas of portfolio theory, asset pricing and behavioural finance. The unit continues with a security analysts’ perspective to address the broad question of how to value enterprises and then drills down to security valuation, financial statement and cash flow analysis. Lastly we shift the focus to that of a derivatives trader to explore the pricing of forwards and options and employing these derivatives to achieve desired asset allocation exposures.
The unit emphasises an applied orientation for the major techniques and themes to be further extended and developed across the Masters program. It represents the essential pre-requisite knowledge for all other core units and elective streams.

Credit Points: 4
When Offered:

AFC Term 2 CBD - Applied Finance Centre, City Campus, March to June

AFC Term 2 MB - Applied Finance Centre, Melbourne Campus, March to June

AFC Term 3 CBD - Applied Finance Centre, City Campus, June to September

AFC Term 4 CBD - Applied Finance Centre, City Campus, September to December

AFC Term 4 MB - Applied Finance Centre, Melbourne Campus, September to December

Staff Contact(s): Mr Dan Daugaard
Prerequisites:

(Admission to GradDipAppFin or MAppFin) and (AFCP810 and AFCP811 and AFCP812 and AFCP813)  Prerequisite Information

Corequisites:

NCCW(s): ECFS865
Unit Designation(s):
Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies

Faculty of Business and Economics

Course structures, including unit offerings, are subject to change.
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