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FIN3IPM - Portfolio Management
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2024 
 
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Part 04. Final Examination - Hints and Tips 
 
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La Trobe University - FIN3IPM: Portfolio Management

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2023 - 2024

University	La Trobe University
Study Level	Undergraduate
Subject Code	FIN3IPM
Subject Name	Portfolio Management
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Page Length	28

A comprehensive and easy-to-understand set of notes covering all examinable topics for FIN3IPM: Portfolio Management, La Trobe 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 the topics that make up the subject, to emphasise and explain the important concepts and methods in each 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 course you'll know it so well, in fact, you will pass the end-of-semester final examination.

Portfolio management concerns the management of an individual’s or business’s investment securities, such as shares, bonds and real estate, with the aim of maximising the return of the portfolio for a defined level of risk. In this subject, you will examine portfolio theory and the application of risk and return concepts to portfolio construction and performance evaluation. You will develop the skills of a portfolio or fund manager, through learning activities in our financial trading room, creating your own financial portfolio, making decisions about investment strategies, aligning investments to objectives, and balancing risk against performance.

On successful completion you will be able to:

formulate the risk-return trade-off encapsulated in modern portfolio theory;
apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and alternative factor models to portfolio construction and critique these models using empirical evidence;
analyse the components of the investment process and the central role of asset allocation decisions in the construction of an investment portfolio to meet investor goals and risk profiles; and,
evaluate the issues relating to the management of bond and equity portfolios, including market efficiency and ethics, and utilise common measures to evaluate the performance of a portfolio.

SUBJECT CODE	SUBJECT NAME
ACC1AMD	Fundamentals of Accounting
ACC2CAD	Management Accounting
ACC2CRE	Financial Accounting and Reporting
ACC3TAX	Taxation
BUS1AFB	Principles of Accounting and Finance
BUS1AFX	Accounting and Finance Fundamentals
BUS1BAN	Analysing Business Data
BUS1BUE	Economic Issues and Public Policy
BUS1ECW	Modern Economies in a Changing World
ECM2IE	Econometrics
ECM3ITE	Introduction to Time Series Econometrics
ECM3MEC	Modelling with Econometrics
ECO1RIG	Recessions, Inflation and Economic Growth
FIN1FOF	Fundamentals of Finance
FIN2FDR	Derivative Securities
FIN2SEV	Investment Securities
FIN3CFI	Corporate Finance
FIN3IPM	Portfolio Management
LAW3ITL	Income Taxation Law
LST2BSL	Introduction to Business Law and Ethics
MGT1FOX	Foundations of Management
MKT1MDP	Fundamentals of Marketing
MKT5MMA	Marketing Management
STA1IDA	Introduction to Data Analysis
STA1LS	Statistics for Life Sciences

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