New course focuses on investment

Manchester Business School is introducing a new course, Investments and Portfolio Management, for MBA students.

The course was tailor made for Hong Kong and mainland financial managers and finance professionals.

Course content covers the investment background and portfolio management principles, the key financial instruments and their management and the derivatives, portfolio protection and performance measurement.

The course aims to give a practical approach on the contribution each financial instrument can make, the calculations involved in benchmarking risk, return, growth and volatility, and how different client's investment objectives can be measured and matched to investment performances.

Students will gain an understanding of stock selections and market timing, and how portfolio insurance and protection can be achieved. There will also be discussions on the growth and activity of hedge funds and how globalisation might help to achieve improved performance.

Students who take this module should have completed a degree level corporate finance course.

The course is taught through three self-study modules and a workshop.