Theory of Investments (N1553)

15 credits, Level 5

Autumn teaching

You explore the common types of investment and gain a thorough grounding in the analysis of investment portfolios.

You learn about:

• the investment environment
• the investment process
• mutual funds and other investment companies
• risk-return-based asset allocation methods
• popular index models
• theoretical and empirical asset pricing models and their applications to investment analysis
• security analysis
• performance measurement.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2021/22. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.