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BUSN3029: Investments and Portfolio Management 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026 
 
- Part 01. About This Guide 
- Part 02. Sample Final Examination Paper 
- Part 03. Suggested Solutions to Final Exam Paper 
- Part 04. Final Examination - Hints and Tips 
 
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Flinders University - BUSN3029: Investments and Portfolio Management

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	Flinders University
Study Level	Undergraduate
Topic Code	BUSN3029
Topic Name	Investments and Portfolio Management
Study Material	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	28

A comprehensive and easy-to-understand set of notes covering all examinable topics for the BUSN3029: Investments and Portfolio Management, Flinders University. These notes offer vital information on exam format, what will be on the exam and key concepts you should be focusing your studies on. The purpose of this guide is to provide a logical structure for subject areas that make up the topic, and to provide initial examples to which the concepts and methods are applied. This guide will get you way up to speed on this topic you'll know it so well, in fact, you will pass the end-of-semester final examination.

This topic focusses on modern portfolio theory and investment analysis and management. It analyses the concepts of risk and return, the securities markets, securities analysis and portfolio management. The topic looks at the operations of Australian financial markets and the opportunities available to investors. A major focus in the topic is on share markets, although parts of the topic are devoted to bond and property investments.

On completion of this topic, you should be able to:

discuss the relative role of Australian markets in global financial markets;
locate and utilise information available to participants in financial markets;
describe the investment process, and measure portfolio risk and return;
apply the capital asset pricing model;
discuss personal lifetime financial planning issues with the overall objectives of the clients, ethics and regulatory environment;
discuss modern portfolio theory, and recognise the benefits of diversification of assets held in a securities portfolio;
analyse the impacts of the economy, developments in specific industries and decisions made by individual companies on the values of corporate shares;
describe the features of fixed-interest securities, use techniques for valuing them and properly manage their portfolio;
construct an optimal investment portfolio.

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