Overview
Theory of financial asset valuation and selection. The valuation of financial securities. Portfolio management.
This paper introduces students to the principles of valuation of financial securities and their uses in a portfolio of assets. We look at equity (stock/shares), debt (fixed income/interest) and derivatives. We analyse asset pricing models and financial markets. Occasionally, ethical issues will be raised. This paper aims to set the foundations of future finance studies and is a prerequisite for further finance studies.
About this paper
| Paper title | Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management |
|---|---|
| Subject | Finance |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1
(On campus)
Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $937.50 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- (BSNS 102 or BSNS 112) and (BSNS 108 or BSNS 114) and FINC 102
- Schedule C
- Commerce
- Contact
- accountancyfinance@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
Semester one: Olena Onishchenko
Semester two: Anindya Sen
- Paper Structure
- The paper is purposefully designed to expose the student to a large range of challenging core financial concepts. The class has a significant increase in difficulty compared to 100-level papers, and thus only students with a genuine interest in finance should enrol. Nearly 50% of the learning will be independent, and the majority of assessments will be mostly problem based in nature - underlying theory and mathematics is your responsibility to learn.
- Teaching Arrangements
This paper is taught via lectures and tutorials.
- Textbooks
Recommended:
Bodie, Z., Kane, A. and Marcus, A. (2019). Essentials of Investments, 11th edition. N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Irwin.- Course outline
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Communication, Critical thinking, Information literacy, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Miscellaneous:
- Basic understanding of securitisation, products and trading platforms
- Distinguish between a price-weighted and value-weighted index
- Calculate the level and returns of value and price-weighted indices
- Discuss the three forms of market efficiency and their implications
- Explain why it is important to have efficient markets
- Derive the efficient frontier for the two-asset case
- Explain how having a riskless asset affects portfolio choice
- Derive the minimum variance set when all assets are risky
- Understand the efficient frontier with multiple risky and one riskless asset
- Derive and understand the implications of CAPM and the Capital Market Line
- Compute the expected return on a security using CAPM
- Determine if a security is over- or under-priced using CAPM
- Understand the relevance of macroeconomic indicators and how these factors affect equity valuation
- Understand and use the dividend discount model for pricing equities
- Understand ways of estimating growth rate and terminal value
- Dividend valuation model with investment opportunities
- Price to earnings ratio in equity valuation
- Compute the price of a bond and yield
- Compute forward rates given the current spot rates
- Calculate duration of a bond
- Explain how duration measures interest rate risk
- Differentiate convexity from duration
- Introduction to derivatives and payoff diagrams
Timetable
Overview
Theory of financial asset valuation and selection. The valuation of financial securities. Portfolio management.
This paper introduces students to the principles of valuation of financial securities and their uses in a portfolio of assets. We look at equity (stock/shares), debt (fixed income/interest) and derivatives. We analyse asset pricing models and financial markets. Occasionally, ethical issues will be raised. This paper aims to set the foundations of future finance studies and is a prerequisite for further finance studies.
About this paper
| Paper title | Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management |
|---|---|
| Subject | Finance |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1
(On campus)
Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2025 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- (BSNS 102 or BSNS 112), one of (BSNS 108, BSNS 114 or PTWY 112) and FINC 102
- Schedule C
- Commerce
- Contact
- accountancyfinance@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
Semester one: Dr Olena Onishchenko
Semester two: Dr Anindya Sen
- Paper Structure
- The paper is purposefully designed to expose the student to a large range of challenging core financial concepts. The class has a significant increase in difficulty compared to 100-level papers, and thus only students with a genuine interest in finance should enrol. Nearly 50% of the learning will be independent, and the majority of assessments will be mostly problem based in nature - underlying theory and mathematics is your responsibility to learn.
- Teaching Arrangements
This paper is taught via lectures and tutorials.
- Textbooks
Recommended:
Bodie, Z., Kane, A. and Marcus, A. (2019). Essentials of Investments, 11th edition. N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Irwin.- Course outline
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Communication, Critical thinking, Information literacy, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Miscellaneous:
- Basic understanding of securitisation, products and trading platforms
- Distinguish between a price-weighted and value-weighted index
- Calculate the level and returns of value and price-weighted indices
- Discuss the three forms of market efficiency and their implications
- Explain why it is important to have efficient markets
- Derive the efficient frontier for the two-asset case
- Explain how having a riskless asset affects portfolio choice
- Derive the minimum variance set when all assets are risky
- Understand the efficient frontier with multiple risky and one riskless asset
- Derive and understand the implications of CAPM and the Capital Market Line
- Compute the expected return on a security using CAPM
- Determine if a security is over- or under-priced using CAPM
- Understand the relevance of macroeconomic indicators and how these factors affect equity valuation
- Understand and use the dividend discount model for pricing equities
- Understand ways of estimating growth rate and terminal value
- Dividend valuation model with investment opportunities
- Price to earnings ratio in equity valuation
- Compute the price of a bond and yield
- Compute forward rates given the current spot rates
- Calculate duration of a bond
- Explain how duration measures interest rate risk
- Differentiate convexity from duration
- Introduction to derivatives and payoff diagrams