Mathematical Portfolio Theory

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About Course

This Mathematical Portfolio Theory course will give an introduction to the mathematical approaches used for the design and analysis of financial portfolios.

It would be useful to participants who want to get a basic insight into mathematical portfolio theory, as well as those who are looking at a career in the finance industry, particularly as asset managers. The course would be accessible to a broad spectrum of students of Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, and Management (with the requisite background in Mathematics). Further, practitioners in the finance industry would also find the course useful from a professional point of view.

 

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate students in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, and Management (with requisite background in Mathematics).

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What Will You Learn?

  • Week 1:Basics of Probability Theory: Probability space and their properties; Random variables; Mean, variance, covariance and their properties; Binomial and normal distribution; Linear regression
  • Week 2:Basics of Financial Markets: Financial markets; Bonds and Stocks; Binomial and geometric Brownian motion (gym) asset pricing models
  • Week 3:Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory: Return and risk; Expected return and risk; Multi-asset portfolio; Efficient frontierWeek 4: Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory: Capital Asset Pricing Model; Capital Market Line and Security Market Line; Portfolio performance analysis
  • Week 5:Non-Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory: Utility functions and expected utility; Risk preferences of investors
  • Week 6:Non-Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory: Portfolio theory with utility functions; Safety-first criterion
  • Week 7:Non-Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory: Semi-variance framework; Stochastic dominance
  • Week 8:Optimal portfolio and consumption: Discrete-time model; Dynamic programming
  • Week 9:Optimal portfolio and consumption: Continuous-time model; Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equation
  • Week 10:Bond Portfolio Management: Interest rates and bonds; Duration and Convexity; Immunization
  • Week 11:Risk Management: Value-at-Risk (VaR); Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR); Methods of calculating VaR and CVaR
  • Week 12:Applications based on actual stock market data: Applications of mean-variance portfolio theory; Applications of non-mean-variance portfolio theory; Applications of VaR and CVaR

Course Content

Mathematical Portfolio Theory

  • Mathematical Portfolio Theory [Intro Video]
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  • Lec 20: Stochastic dominance; First order stochastic dominance
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  • Lec 21: Second order stochastic dominance and Third order stochastic dominance
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  • Lec 22: Discrete time model and utility function
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  • Lec 23: Optimal portfolio for single-period discrete time model
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  • Lec 24: Optimal portfolio for multi-period discrete time model; Discrete Dynamic Programming
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  • Lec 25: Continuous time model; Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE
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  • Lec 26: Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE; Duality/Martingale Approach
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  • Lec 27: Duality/Martingale Approach in Discrete and Continuous Time
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  • Lec 28: Interest rates and bonds; Duration
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  • Lec 29: Duration; Immunization
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  • Lec 30: Convexity; Hedging and Immunization
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  • Lec 31: Quantiles and their properties
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  • Lec 32: Value – at – Risk and its properties
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  • Lec 33: Average Value-at-Risk and its properties
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  • Lec 34: Asset allocation
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  • Lec 35: Portfolio optimization
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  • Lec 19: Semi-variance framework
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  • Lec 18: Kataoka’s Safety-First Criterion and Telser’s Safety-First Criterion
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  • Lec 17: Geometric Mean Return and Roy’s Safety-First Criterion
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  • Lec 1: Probability space and their properties, Random variables
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  • Lec 2: Mean, variance, covariance and their properties
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  • Lec 3: Linear regression; Binomial and normal distribution; Central Limit Theorem
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  • Lec 4: Financial markets
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  • Lec 5: Bonds and stocks
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  • Lec 6: Binomial and geometric Brownian motion (gBm) asset pricing models
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  • Lec 7: Expected return, risk and covariance of returns
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  • Lec 8: Expected return and risk of a portfolio; Minimum variance portfolio
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  • Lec 9: Multi-asset portfolio and Efficient frontier
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  • Lec 10 : Capital Market Line and Derivation of efficient frontier
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  • Lec 11 : Capital Asset Pricing Model and Single index model
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  • Lec 12: Portfolio performance analysis
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  • Lec 13: Utility functions and expected utility
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  • Lec 14: Risk preferences of investors
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  • Lec 15: Absolute Risk Aversion and Relative Risk Aversion
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  • Lec 16 : Portfolio theory with utility functions
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  • Lec 36: Portfolio optimization with constraints, Value-at-Risk: Estimation and backtesting
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