Investment Analysis
This note introduces the basic tools used by investment professionals. Topics covered includes: Investment Process, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Bond Portfolio Management, Portfolio Mechanics, Optimal Portfolios, Equilibrium Models and Performance Evaluation.
Author(s): Carnegie Mellon University
NA Pages 
Investment Management Notes KU
The link provides PDF lecture notes for the course Investment Management. The notes cover various topics related to investment management, such as investment objectives, asset allocation, portfolio theory, risk and return, and stock valuation. The notes also discuss different types of financial assets, including equities, bonds, and derivatives. The course is intended for students pursuing a postgraduate degree in business administration or related fields. Overall, the lecture notes provide a comprehensive introduction to investment management principles and practices.
Author(s): P.Hemalatha, Teaching Assistant, Department of commerce
80 Pages
This note covers the following topics: Ingredients of an Investment Philosophy, Categorizing Investment Philosophies, Developing an Investment Philosophy, Market Timing, The Cost of Market Timing, Charting and Technical Analysis, Small Cap and Growth Investing, The Passive Screener, Value Investing, Information Trading.
Author(s): Aswath Damodaran
219 Pages
This note covers the following topics: Matrices and Programming, Prices, Probabilities, Risk and Return, Optimization, Factor Models, Style Analysis, Equilibrium, Performance Measurement.
Author(s): William F. Sharpe
NA Pages
Fixed Income Securities Lecture Notes
This note explores key concepts in understanding fixed income instruments. This note will comprehensively cover topics related to fixed income instruments, including nominal yields, effective yields, yield to maturity, spot rates, forward rates, present value, future value, mortgage payments, term structure of interest rates, bond price sensitivity to interest rate changes, hedging, horizon analysis, credit risk, default probability, recovery rates, floaters, inverse floaters, swaps, forward rate agreements, Eurodollars, convertible bonds, callable bonds, interest rate models, risk neutral pricing, and fixed income arbitrage.
Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov
424 Pages
Foreign Direct Investment Analysis of Aggregate Flows
This book provides a treatise of the unique features of FDI flows, covering both theory and data. It focuses on the determinants of the aggregate flows of FDI at the source-host country level. The book is likely to find its main readership among academics, graduate students, and trained policy professionals.
Author(s): Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
215 Pages
Topics in Asset Pricing Lecture Notes
This note covers the following topics: From CAPM to market anomalies, Credit risk implications for the cross section of asset returns, Rational versus behavioural attributes of stylized cross-sectional effects, Conditional CAPM, Conditional versus unconditional portfolio efficiency, Multi-factor models, Interpreting factor models, Machine learning methods in asset pricing: Lasso, Ridge, elastic net, group Lasso, Neural Network, and Random Forest, Panel regressions with fixed effects and their association with market-timing and cross-section, investment strategies, Consumption based asset pricing models, The discount factor representation in asset pricing, The equity premium puzzle, The risk free rate puzzle, The Epstein-Zin preferences.
Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov
248 Pages
