BUSI 448
Investments
Rice University

Learn Investments App

---

Instructor

Kevin Crotty
Associate Professor of Finance
kevin.p.crotty@rice.edu

---

Course Outline and Slides

0. Python basics

Intro

1. Intro to course (PDF)

2. Saving for retirement (PDF)

3. Real and nominal saving(PDF)

4. Calculating returns (PDF)

5. Portfolio returns (PDF)

Financial Markets

6. Equity Markets (PDF)

7. Treasury Markets (PDF)

8. Arbitrage + No-arbitrage Pricing (PDF)

9. Markets, Trading, & Adverse Selection (PDF)    (Notes on optimal bidding)

10. Leverage + Margin (PDF)

11. Short-selling + Limits to Arbitrage (PDF)

Optimal Portfolios

12. Diversification (PDF)

13. Theory (PDF)

14. Practice: Borrowing Frictions (PDF)

15. Practice: Shorting Constraints (PDF)

16. Rebalancing (PDF)

17. Input Sensitivity (PDF)

Equity Topics

18. Benchmark models (PDF)

19. CAPM (PDF)

20. Return Predictability (PDF)

21. Multifactor Models (PDF)

Fixed Income Topics

22. Duration (PDF)

23. Convexity (PDF)

24. Credit Risk (PDF)

Performance Evaluation

25. Asset Management + Performance Measures (PDF)

Taxes

26. Taxes (PDF)

Review/Catch-up

27. Review (PDF)