BUS311: Investment Analysis

The main objective of this unit is to examine the return-risk profile of an individual security and the construction of optimal investment portfolios. The unit will examine the mean-variance portfolio theory, simplification to the portfolio selection process, efficient market hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and empirical tests of equilibrium models. In addition, arbitrage pricing models, technical analysis and portfolio performance will be examined.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; tutorials: 1 hour per week.
Prerequisites	C224/BUS224 Corporate Finance.
School	School of Business
Unit Coordinator	Dr Kim-Song Le Position: Lecturer in Finance E-mail: K.Le@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 4.019 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2362
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Dr Kim-Song Le Lecturer in Finance (K.Le@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2362 Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 4.019 MURDOCH S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)