Capital Markets, Asset Valuation & Portfolio Management

This course is useful for professionals in the investment industry, from private investors to pension fund consultants to portfolio managers. You'll learn how to use asset-valuation tools for a range of assets, including equity, debt, derivative markets, real estate and venture capital.

The course also covers the principles of merging different investments into portfolio management, including investment-setting, investment policy and asset allocation.

What you will learn:

• Understand investment vehicles as well as the organization and functioning of various securities markets.
• Develop investment policy statements for private clients and derive asset allocations.
• Apply security valuation techniques using a dividend discount model, discounted cash flow and multiples.
• Produce economic and industry analyses.
• Analyze and learn the basics of futures, options and swaps markets as well as portfolio management and common asset-pricing models.