Investments (BUSA90167)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Overview

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Investments is designed to provide you with the tools of modern finance for devising and evaluating financial portfolios and to make better investment choices. To this end we discuss and develop valuation techniques of financial instruments and working knowledge of portfolio management, pricing and hedging with options on individual stocks and indexes, forwards and futures contracts, monetary policy and how the conduct of monetary policy affects investment performance, devising investment strategies exploiting market inefficiencies.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:



  • Value important classes of financial assets such as common stocks, fixed-income securities, and derivative securities.
  • Build a diversified portfolio and assess portfolio performance.
  • Use financial derivatives as hedging instruments in portfolio creation and management.
  • Understand how money is created, how monetary policy is implemented and the effect of central banks decisions’ on the performance of their investment portfolios.
  • Devise investment strategies robust to financial crises and also those that exploit certain inefficiencies of financial markets.

Last updated: 10 November 2023

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites


87.5 credit points from

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
BUSA90480 Leadership
June (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
October (Online)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
 6.25
BUSA90481 Managerial Ethics & Business Environment
October (Online)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
 6.25
BUSA90060 Data Analysis
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90243 Marketing
April (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90224 Managing People
July (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90001 Financial Accounting
July (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90093 Finance
July (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90193 Managerial Economics
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90482 General Management 1
September (On Campus - Parkville)
 62.5
BUSA90483 General Management 2
January (On Campus - Parkville)
 43.75

AND


25 credit points from

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
BUSA90026 Business Strategy
July (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BUSA90227 Operations
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

AND

Note: BUSA90226 and BUSA90027 are concurrent pre-requisite and may be done concurrently with the subject

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

None

Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)

The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.

Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home

Last updated: 10 November 2023

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

Homework sets, staggered throughout subject

  • 2000 words (equivalent)
Throughout the teaching period40%

End-of-semester examination, equivalent to 3000 words

  • 3 hours
Hurdle requirement: Students are required to pass the exam to pass the subject		During the examination period60%

Last updated: 10 November 2023

Quotas apply to this subject

Dates & times

  • January
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours
    Total time commitment140 hours
    Pre teaching start date 9 January 2023
    Pre teaching requirementsstudents are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during the pre-teaching period
    Teaching period16 January 2023 to 24 March 2023
    Last self-enrol date10 January 2023
    Census date27 January 2023
    Last date to withdraw without fail 3 March 2023
    Assessment period ends24 March 2023

Time commitment details

140 hours

Additional delivery details

This subject is only available to students admitted to MC-BA, MC-BAPT, or students with permission of the MBA course coordinator

This subject has a quota of 80 students. Students will be selected on a first come, first serve basis. However if any student is approaching their completion date, they will get priority in enrolment.

Last updated: 10 November 2023

Further information

  • Texts

    Prescribed texts

    There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.

  • Subject notes

    This subject is only available to students admitted to MC-BA, MC-BAPT, or students with permission of the MBA course coordinator

  • Related Handbook entries

    This subject contributes to the following:

    TypeName
    CourseMaster of Business Administration
    CourseMaster of Business Administration
    CourseMaster of Business Administration/Master of Marketing
  • Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students

    This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.

Last updated: 10 November 2023