Portfolio Management

Syllabus

FM-404: Portfolio Management

Course Contents:

Portfolio analysis and valuation principles – meaning, importance, objectives and various issues in portfolio construction and revision; portfolio analysis – diversification, portfolio risk and return; Markowitz portfolio theory; portfolio selection – defining investment objectives, investor preferences; Single index model; introduction to asset pricing models, capital market theory, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM); multifactor models of risk and return, arbitrage pricing theory (APT), multifactor models and risk estimation; valuation principles and practices – value of financial statement analysis, theory of valuation, security valuation process, valuation of alternative investments, relative valuation techniques. Portfolio performance evaluation and management – SEBI guidelines on portfolio management; asset management – managed portfolios, professional money management companies, investing in alternative asset classes; portfolio performance evaluation, performance measurement techniques, risk adjusted measures of performance evaluation, evaluation criteria and procedures, evaluation of bond portfolio performance, reporting investment portfolio performance.

Wealth Management- Wealth cycle, Risk profiling and assets allocations. Estate planning and taxation of Investment. Client data collections and analysis.