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Portfolio Selection and Risk Management 
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Portfolio Selection and Risk Management
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Rice University 
Overview

Learn the basic principles underlying optimal portfolio construction, diversification, and risk management

Duration

5 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

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Course Level

UG Certificate

Portfolio Selection and Risk Management
 at 
Rice University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate upon completion
  • Learn from expert faculty
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Portfolio Selection and Risk Management
 at 
Rice University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Individual investors, institutional investors, and fund managers who seek to optimize their investment portfolios for returns while managing risks
What are the course deliverables?
  • Develop risk and return measures for portfolio of assets
  • Understand the main insights from modern portfolio theory based on diversification
  • Describe and identify efficient portfolios that manage risk effectively
  • Solve for portfolio with the best risk-return trade-offs
  • Understand how risk preference drive optimal asset allocation decisions
  • Describe and use equilibrium asset pricing models
More about this course
  • In this course, you’ll learn the basic principles underlying optimal portfolio construction, diversification, and risk management
  • You’ll start by acquiring the tools to characterize an investor’s risk and return trade-off
  • You will next analyze how a portfolio choice problem can be structured and learn how to solve for and implement the optimal portfolio solution
  • Finally, you will learn about the main pricing models for equilibrium asset prices

Portfolio Selection and Risk Management
 at 
Rice University 
Curriculum

Introduction to Portfolio Management

Overview of financial markets and investment instruments

Introduction to portfolio theory

Asset Allocation

Strategic asset allocation vs. tactical asset allocation

Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) and the efficient frontier

Security Selection

Fundamental vs. technical analysis

Valuation methods and ratios

Portfolio Construction Techniques

Building a diversified portfolio

Capital Market Line (CML) and Security Market Line (SML)

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