Investment Management
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[pic 1]Investment Management Course Outline
for Session 2015-16
Batch: PGDM 2014-16 Term: IV
Course (Finance Elective): INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Credits: 2.5
Course Instructors: Prof D N Panigrahi and Prof J S Matharu
- Objectives of the course:
The course inputs are designed to accomplish the following objectives.
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This course mainly focuses on two areas : a. Security Analysis b. Portfolio Management. The Course will have three modules : a. Introduction to Investment, Financial Markets & Instruments. b. Security Analysis. c. Portfolio Management. Each module has several components within it. Please refer to the session-wise plan and readings for details. 3.A Pre-requisites: This course assumes a basic knowledge of Accounting and Finance (like financial statement analysis and time value of money) and basic mathematics like elementary algebra, calculus, graphs and elementary statistics. 3.B Link to other Subjects: a. Banks on the basic understanding of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Management/Corporate Finance. b. This is the key finance discipline that will help you understand other specialized finance topics like Derivatives, Risk Management, Fixed Income Securities, Treasury Management, Financial Markets & Institutions and Bank Management etc. |
- Students’ Learning Outcomes/Goals
On sincere and successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
LO1: Understand and appreciate the distinguishing features of investments in various asset classes and their suitability to different investors/investor groups based on their needs, goals, planning horizon and risk tolerance etc. They will also understand the impact of external environment like inflation, interest rates, taxes, domestic and global market and geo-political conditions, economic policies like monetary and fiscal policies on the investment portfolio. – PLG3
LO2: Analyze and evaluate the stocks with the help of fundamental analysis and technical tools. – PLG3
LO3: Prepare an equity research report based on Economy-Industry-Company (EIC) analysis and communicate to investors/investor groups. - PLG2.
LO4: Construct portfolios and evaluate their performance. – PLG3.
LO5: Analyze fixed income securities like bonds using fundamental analysis and manage bond portfolios. – PLG3.
Program Level Goals (PLGs)
PLG2. Develop effective communication skills and abilities.
PLG3. Demonstrate decision making skills in solving business problems.
- Basic Text Book
Chandra, Prasanna, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (IAPM), 4/e Tata McGraw Hill 2012.
- Reference Books:
- Reilly, Frank K and Brown, Keith C, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (IAPM), 10th Edition, Cengage.
- Damodaran, A., Damodaran on Valuation, Wiley-India
- Jones, Charles P., Investment Analysis and Management, Eleventh Edition, Wiley India, 2012.
- Fischer, Donald E. and Jordan, Ronald J., Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Pearson Education, 2004.
- Sharpe, William F., Gordon J. Alexander and Jeffery V. Bailey, ‘Investments’, Prentice Hall, 2002
- Bodie, Zvi, Alex Kane, Alan J Markus and Pitabas Mohanty, Investments, McGraw-Hill 8th Edition, 2009.
7) Security Analysis (Text Book & Work Book) – By ICFAI
8) Portfolio Management (Text Book & Work Book) – By ICFAI
- Magazines, Newspapers and Electronic Media
- Capital Market
- Dalal Street Investment Journal
- Economic Times, Business Standard, Business Line
- Watch CNBC-TV18, ETNOW, Bloomberg TV, Zee Business and CNBC Awaz Business News Channels regularly to gain real insights into the subject.
- E-resources/databases:-
- Bloomberg
- Capital Line
- Prowess
- Meta Stock
- Websites like investopedia.com
- Session Plan:
Session No | Topics | Pre class preparations/ Assignments |
1 | Introduction to Investments, Financial Markets and Instruments
| Chandra, Chapters 1, 2 |
2 | Asset Allocation Decision: Individual Investor’s Life Cycle | Reilly & Brown, Chapter 2 Lecture Notes |
3 |
Time Value of Money, Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Downside Semi Variance, Coefficient of Variation, Covariance, Correlation, Linear Regression, Graphs and equations of straight lines, simple algebra and calculus like log, matrices, derivatives etc. | Chandra, Chapters 3, 5 |
Security Analysis | ||
4 | Investment Risk and Return: impacts of tax and inflation, different measures of return and risk including Downside semi-variance, shortfall probability, expected shortfall, Value at Risk, Tracking Error etc., models of asset returns, Market/single index model for single security, security characteristic line, beta of a security, Capital Asset Pricing Model and Security Market Line for single security, | Chandra, Chapters 4, 8 Mini Case |
5 | Fixed Income Securities: Bond basics, Analysis and Valuation of bonds, Bond Prices and Yields, Bond value theorems, bond risks, yield curves | Chandra, Chapter 11 Mini Case |
6& 7 | Equity return and valuation models | Chandra, Chapter 13 Mini Case |
8 | Fundamental Analysis: (Economy/Market Analysis, Industry/Sector Analysis and Company Analysis) – Equity and Bond | Chandra, Chapters 14, 15 Mini Case |
9 | Guest Lecture on Technical Analysis | Chandra, Chapter 16 |
Portfolio Management | ||
10 | Efficient Market Hypothesis and Behavioral Finance concepts | Chandra, Chapters 9, 10 |
11 | Mid Term Exam | |
12 | Modern Portfolio Theory: Risk and return of a portfolio, Investor’s policy statement, portfolio selection and construction, Markowitz model: efficient frontier and portfolio diversification | Chandra, Chapter 7 |
13 | Single Index Model, Sharpe’s optimal portfolio, Capital market theory, Capital Market Line, Capital Asset Pricing Model and Security Market Line, Arbitrage Pricing Theory | Chandra, Chapters 7, 8 Mini Case |
14 | Portfolio Management and Evaluation: Portfolio review and revision/rebalancing, passive and active portfolio management | Chandra, Chapters 22, 23 Mini Case |
15 | Institutional Investing and Professional Money Management: Portfolio Management Schemes, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds | Chandra, Chapter 24 |
16 & 17 | Bond Portfolio Management Strategies: Passive and Active Duration and Convexity and interest rate risk Immunization | Chandra, Chapter 12 Mini Case |
18 & 19 | Basics of Derivatives: Options, Forwards and Futures Hedging, arbitrage and speculation | Chandra, Chapters 17, 18 |
20 | Guest Lecture |
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