Handbook

This course provides students with the required tools and knowledge to think critically and beyond traditional investment strategies. The approaches that will be discussed and presented are the ones that many investors and institutions use to design and implement investment strategies. In the first part of the course, both stock and bond market pricing and investment strategies will be discussed and the required tools to analyze and design investment strategies will be covered. In the second part of the course, we will discuss alternative investment (hedge fund) and mutual fund industries. The course will also cover the design, implementation, and analysis of portfolio allocations. As most courses in finance, this course requires some basic knowledge of mathematics, statistics and accounting.