Portfolio Management [ MGEST2161 ]

The goal of this course is to teach students the foundations
of portfolio construction and performance measurement.
Key topics include:
- Return and risk measurement (for equity, fixed-income,
and derivative portfolios)
- Portfolio construction and management techniques
- Performance attribution and presentation standards
- Private Wealth Management (Wealth Allocation
Framework)

At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- calculate the risk and return of financial assets using a
spreadsheet and the R software;
- select the most apporpriate return and risk computation
methods when evaluatinfg the portfolio management
strategy followed by investor risk;
- analyze the composition of the portfolio held by wealthy
individuals when making any necessary recommendation
for change;
- assess the strengths and weaknesses of active and
passive management strategies;
- construct and evaluate one's portfolio by selecting and
combining several securities.

- Computer-based questions
- MCQ
- Open written questions

- Lectures based on readings
- MCQs
- Excel applications
- Video tutorials
- Portfolio simulation

The course draws its content from the following list of study
items.
- Portfolio Risk, Return, Planning and Construction
- Active Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy
Statement
- Alternative investments: Investing in Commodities, Real
Estate, Private Equity and Hedge Funds
- Private Wealth Management
- Portfolio Management for Institutional Investors
- Capital Market Expectations in Portfolio Management
- Economic Concepts for Asset Valuation in Portfolio
Management
- Asset allocation
- Fixed-Income Portfolio Management
- Relative-Value Methodologies for Global Credit Bond
Portfolio Management
- Hedging Mortgage Securities to Capture Relative Value
- Equity Portfolio Management
- Alternative Investments Portfolio Management (Swaps,
Commodity Forwards and Futures)
- Risk Management for Strategies on Currencies, Forward
and Futures, Options, and Swaps
- Execution of Portfolio Decisions
- Monitoring and Rebalancing of Portfolios
- Evaluating Portfolio Performance
- Global Performance Evaluation
- Global Investment Performance Standards
Page

Bacon (2008), Practical Portfolio Performance
Measurement and Attribution, 2nd ed., Wiley.
Bodie, Kane and Marcus (2010), Investments, 9th edition,
McGraw-Hill.
Roncalli (2013), Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting,
Chapman & HallCRC Financial Mathematics Series.