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ECF3327 Investment Finance III
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Credit Points: 15
Prerequisites:
ECF2226 Investment Finance II
ECF2258 Business Analysis II
 
Description:
This unit will focus on advanced investment theory with a focus on current academic and practitioner issues. The unit will build on the introduction to portfolio theory and asset pricing covered in Investments II and provide an application for the quantitative skills covered in Business Analysis II. A focus on portfolio management and performance evaluation reflects the growing importance of the managed funds industry both in Australia and overseas. Finance is a relatively new discipline but it has developed what can be regarded as a traditional school associated with investor rationality and asset pricing models that extend from it. Behavioural Finance is a challenge to this orthodoxy, which has gained momentum since the late 1970s. As the final topic it will allow a re-examination of what is central to investments finance.

This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
MAFINFinance Major
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 18/11/2004