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FNCE30001 - Investments 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2025 
 
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University of Melbourne - FNCE30001: Investments (Solutions)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

University	University of Melbourne
Study Level	Undergraduate
Subject Code	FNCE30001
Subject Name	Investments
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Page Length	28

A comprehensive and easy-to-understand set of notes covering all examinable topics for FNCE30001: Investments at the University of Melbourne. These notes provide vital information on exam format, what will be on the exam and key concepts to focus 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. By using the guide, you can quickly grasp your course materials, practise with exam-like questions with solutions provided, and confidently pass the end-of-semester final examination.

This subject covers investment analysis, with emphasis on equity securities and fixed interest securities. The topics covered focus on issues fundamental to financial managers, money managers, risk managers, financial advisers and regulators. These topics include: fundamental ideas in asset pricing, modern portfolio theory, and their applications; equilibrium theories of asset pricing; empirical evidence on security returns; key issues in pricing fixed interest securities; and techniques in fixed interest portfolio management.

✔ On successful completion of this subject, you should be able to:

Discuss core concepts in finance, including risk, return, risk premium and risk aversion;
Analyse the portfolio selection problem, with emphasis on the mean variance framework;
Critically evaluate theories of asset pricing and their applications in the pricing of securities;
Analyse issues in the pricing of fixed interest securities and the management of portfolios;
Apply investments knowledge to challenging and complex real-world scenarios.

SUBJECT CODE	SUBJECT NAME
ACCT10001	Accounting Reports and Analysis
ACCT10002	Introductory Financial Accounting
ACCT20001	Cost Management
BLAW10001	Principles of Business Law
BLAW30002	Taxation Law I
ECOM20001	Econometrics 1
ECOM30002	Econometrics 2
ECON10003	Introductory Macroeconomics
ECON10004	Introductory Microeconomics
ECON10005	Quantitative Methods 1
ECON20002	Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON20003	Quantitative Methods 2
FNCE10002	Principles of Finance
FNCE20005	Corporate Financial Decision Making
FNCE30001	Investments
FNCE30007	Derivative Securities
FNCE40001	Advanced Corporate Finance
MAST20005	Statistics
MGMT10002	Principles of Management
MKTG10001	Principles of Marketing

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