Investment- Theory

The primary objective of this course is to provide a broad overview of the field of investments and an introduction to the process of investing, both in theory and in practice. Investing is usually divided into two parts: portfolio management and security analysis. Portfolio management combines securities into a portfolio tailored to the investor’s preferences and needs, monitoring the portfolio, and evaluating its performance. Modern portfolio theory (MPT) is the core of portfolio management. Security analysis attempts to determine whether individual security (or total market or market segment) is correctly valued. In other words, it is the search for mispriced assets.

What you’ll learn

After taking this course, you will learn

✓ how markets work
✓ the relation between risk and return
✓ how to evaluate the performance of a portfolio
✓ how to create an optimal portfolio
✓ the basics of fixed-income securities

Course content

Chapter 01: Investment Background and Issues

1What is an investment?Investments defined
2Difference between Real and Financial assets Real vs. Financial assets
3What is an investment process?Investment Process
4Average return in the US stock marketAverage Stock Return

Chapter 02: Asset Classes and Financial Instruments

5What are the asset classes?Asset Classes
6How to calculate Equivalent Taxable YieldEquivalent Taxable Yield
7How to calculate Treasury bond price and yieldTreasury Bond Price and Yield
8How to calculate Price Weighted IndexPrice Weighted Index
9How to calculate the Value-Weighted IndexValue-Weighted Index
10Profit and Returns on Stock OptionsProfit and Returns on Options

Chapter 03: Securities Market

11What is Short selling?Short Selling
12Margin Trading basicsMargin Trading
13Margin trading in a bullish marketMargin Trading in Bull Market
14How to short sell in a margin accountShort Selling in Margin Account

Chapter 04: Risk Return and Historical Record

15Risk and Return: All you need to knowRisk and Return Basics
16How to calculate expected return and standard deviationCalculate Risk and Return
17How to calculate Time Weighted and Dollar Weighted returnTime and Dollar Weighted Return
18How to measure the risk of Apple Inc. in ExcelCalculate Apple Stock Risk

Chapter 05: Equity Valuation

19What is Free Cash Flow?Free Cash Flow
20How to calculate the market value of equity using DCF and FCFEMarket Value Equity
21How to estimate the price of a stock using CAPMStock Price and CAPM

Chapter 06: Bond Price and Yields

22How to calculate bond priceBond Price
23How to calculate the price of a semi-annual bondSemi-annual Bond Price
24How to calculate the YTM of a bondBond YTM
25How to calculate the invoice price of a bondBond Invoice Price
26How to calculate the price and yield of a zero-coupon bondZero-coupon Bond Price
27How to calculate the holding period return of a bondHolding Period Return
28How to calculate the effective annual interest rate (EAR)Effective Annual Interest
29How to calculate the bond equivalent yield and effective annual yieldBond Equivalent Yield

Chapter 07: Managing Bond Portfolio

30How to calculate the Macaulay Duration of a bondBond Macaulay Duration
31Macaulay Duration using the weighted average methodDuration-Weighted Method
32How to calculate the change in bond price with the change in yieldBond Price Change
33Bond portfolio immunization strategyBond Portfolio Immunization
34How to calculate the bond duration with the convexity ruleBond Convexity

Chapter 08: Effective Diversification

35How to calculate optimal portfolio using Excel- two stocksOptimal Portfolio Two Stocks
36How to calculate optimal portfolio using Excel- five stocksOptimal Portfolio Five Stocks

Chapter 09: Efficient Market Hypothesis

37Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)- basicsEMH Basics

Chapter 10: Options Markets

38Options markets for beginnersOptions Market Basics

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