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AFM432 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

Updated: 08 April 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites candidature in MCom
Co-requisites None
Restrictions AFM332
Notes None
Combined Units AFM332 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Coordinator(s) Erkan Yalcin (eyalcin@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

A unit on security analysis and portfolio management. This unit is both descriptive, dealing with a range of securities and the market they operate in, and theoretical, considering theories of the market and the equilibrium prices of securities.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Investments
ISBN: 9780074716946
Bodie, Z., Ariff, M., DaSilva, R., Kane, A. and Marcus, A., McGraw Hill 2007
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 25% 2800
Assessment Notes
Major assignment
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 3 and 4 GA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Quiz 15%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1 and 2 GA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Final Examination 2 hrs 60%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3 and 4 GA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. identify relevant themes of financial markets;
  2. analyse financial securities;
  3. allocate financial securities in a portfolio;
  4. demonstrate an understanding of scope in the construction of a portfolio.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Lectures and tutorials. 		True
2 Communication Skills
Tutorials. 		True
3 Global Perspectives
Students access literature. 		True
4 Information Literacy
Students access literature. 		True
5 Life-Long Learning
Essay and analysis. 		True
6 Problem Solving
Assignments. 		True
7 Social Responsibility
Lectures. 		True
8 Team Work
Tutorials. 		True
   

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