A86032 Asset Management

Scuola di Economia e Management
Laboratorio Esperienziale
Academic Year 2016/17 Second Semester

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Docente TitolareMatteo Formenti
E-mailmformenti@liuc.it
Office"Torre" (main tower), 7th floor
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Learning Objectives

At the end of the course the student will be able:

  1. to perform the asset allocation of third parties taking into account the different level of risk aversion of each investor;
  2. to maximize the performance of a diversified portfolio in a risk-return perspective taking advantage from the extraordinary variety of financial instruments available to investors, ranging from fixed income products to hedge funds.
  3. to execute a wise stock picking, being able to fairly weigh the past performance and the growth expectation of each asset;

Required Readings

Z. Bodie, A. Kane, A.J. Marcus, Investments, any edition,  + Handouts and other specific readings are handed over during the course.

Aswath Damodaran, The handbook of fixed income securitiesInvestment Philosophies, McGraw-HillWiley Finance. 2012

Maginn, John L., Donald L. Tuttle, Jerald F. Pinto, and Dennis W. McLeavey, Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process, 3rd edition. Wiley, 2007.

Rappaport, Alfred, and Michael J. Mauboussin, Expectations Investing. Boston: Harvard Business  School Press, 2001

Course Evaluation

Syllabus

Session 1
Hours of lesson: 3
Instructor: A. Nassigh

Topics:

  • Market Selection. Each group of students will select a panel of large cap stocks subject to stock picking

Readings:

Session 2
Hours of lesson: 3
Instructor: A. Nassigh

Topics:

  • Stock picking. Each group of students will implement the equity valuation model that they deem more appropriate for the large cap stocks subject to stock picking

Readings:

Session 3
Hours of lesson: 3
Instructor:

Topics:

  • Optimal Risky Portfolio building. Each group of students will assess the market risk premium on the basis of the market data and implement the Markowitz optimization process in order to select the optimal portfolio weights.

Readings:

Session 4
Hours of lesson: 3
Instructor: A. Nassigh

Topics:

  • Students, in groups, will present and discuss the simulation carried out and results obtained. Instructors will be active in the discussion by highlighting the weaknesses and strengths of each solution implemented (groups A-L).

Readings:

Session 5
Hours of lesson: 4
Instructor:

Topics:

  • Students, in groups, will present and discuss the simulation carried out and results obtained. Instructors will be active in the discussion by highlighting the weaknesses and strengths of each solution implemented (groups M-Z).

Readings:


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