FINC 401 — Investment Fundamentals
Finance · University of Ghana
The course is about investment in marketable securities. Accordingly, the course focuses on the investment environment and process. The investment environment encompasses the kinds of marketable securities that exist particularly in Ghana and where and how they are bought and sold. The investment process on the other hand is concerned with how an investor should proceed in making decisions about what marketable securities to invest in, how extensive the investments should be, and when the investments should be made in order to maximise the return, given the associated risk. Topics will include: The Investment Setting, the Asset Allocation Decision, Securities Markets: Organization, Functions and Regulations, Review of Financial Market Efficiency, Portfolio Theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Arbitrage Pricing Model, Valuing Financial Assets, Professional Asset Management, Stock Market Analysis, Industry Analysis, Company Analysis and Stock Selection, Technical Analysis, Evaluation of Portfolio Performance and Introduction to Financial Derivatives
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- FINC 402 — Monetary Theory
- FINC 403 — Bank Management
- FINC 404 — International Finance and Banking
- FINC 405 — Banking Operations
- FINC 406 — Financial Markets
- FINC 407 — Labour Economics
- FINC 408 — Microfinance
- FINC 451 — Introduction to Actuarial Science
- FINC 452 — Property and Pecuniary Insurance
- FINC 453 — Elements of Risk and Insurance
- FINC 454 — Assurance of the Person
- FINC 455 — Insurance of Liability
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).