Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management
The Wharton School
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- 5 days
- online
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Who should attend
This program is designed for investment professionals and investment services providers, including:
- Portfolio managers and analysts at mutual funds, pension funds, corporations, and institutions sponsoring and providing investment vehicles for their employees and beneficiaries
- Corporate and individual retirement planners
- Employees of insurance companies
- Commercial bank employees with portfolio management responsibilities
The program also provides valuable insights to general managers, senior functional managers, and high net worth individual investors who want to manage their own investments or work more knowledgeably with professional managers. Cross-functional teams can also benefit from leveraging collective knowledge across a larger organizational footprint.
The faculty has expressly designed the program content to focus on the use of investment information, not its preparation, so even those with little or no experience in investment management will find the course content and its presentation comprehensible and practical.
About the course
As the global pandemic continues to upend nearly every aspect of our lives, the stock market veers from one extreme to the other. Investment professionals and portfolio managers are finding themselves awash in a sea of conflicting market signals and unprecedented uncertainty. Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management is essential for anyone who wants a clear-eyed view of investing in the time of COVID-19 and how to come out on top.
In this program, participants will create optimal investment portfolios that suit their needs and solidly accommodate risk, including small-probability risk. They will also learn how to critically evaluate investment management options using new data and how to unpack the macroeconomic outlook in the U.S. and internationally. This timely finance program is expertly designed to help investment professionals and financial advisors interpret and understand the market data and capitalize on the investment opportunities that are emerging today.
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Highlights and Key Outcomes
In Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management, you will:
- Receive new tools and techniques for creating profitable investment portfolios
- Critically evaluate investment managers using the latest research
- Gain a deeper understanding of how to account for financial risk, including the impact of unforeseen small-probability events like pandemics
- Learn how to assess the stock market’s reactions to events using behavioral finance principles
- Get an expert view of the predicted length and shape of an economic recovery
- Understand the macroeconomic outlook both in the U.S. and globally
Experience & Impact
The once-in-a-century occurrence of a global pandemic has thrown an unexpected degree of volatility into the financial markets leading to greater investment uncertainty in numerous sectors. This is a time when much more is needed than conventional investing wisdom. Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management provides financial professionals with a powerful new strategic approach based on the latest Wharton research. In this program, Wharton faculty, who are world-class thought leaders in the world of finance, will explore a wide variety of investing topics — from enhanced portfolio theory to bond management, from hedge funds to private equity — all against the backdrop of the seismic changes the pandemic has wrought across the U.S. and global economies.
Participants will acquire the latest tools and techniques for designing optimal investment portfolios that serve people’s needs. You will also learn to effectively evaluate investment management options using newly available research data. Find out how investment managers are currently rated, what variables are used to assess their skills, and how to weigh these factors against the fees they charge. This is essential knowledge both for investors and for investment management firms looking to hire managers.
Risk management is a key topic in this program, including an analysis of small-probability, disaster-type events such as the global pandemic. Wharton professors will delve into why the standard measure of risk, often called volatility, is insufficient given the events the world has seen in 2020. They will discuss what is known as tail risk — extremely bad, infrequent occurrences — and describe how investment professionals can pick up early indicators and better manage such events.
You will also learn about behavioral finance, including how investors and the public tend to respond to unusual occurrences. Examine the market’s reaction to COVID-19 as compared, for example, to the typical reaction to excessive seasonal flu deaths. Behavioral finance can help investors better understand and anticipate dramatic increases or drops in stock prices.
Participants will expand their horizons when it comes to the macroeconomic outlook and policy uncertainty. What shape will the recovery most likely take? Where should you put your money when COVID-19 is deferentially affecting various regions? What are the international considerations as far as monetary policy and central banks? All of these questions, and more, will be discussed.
Balancing the historical with the visionary — yet practical above all — this program enables you to access the best minds in finance so you can steer with confidence through this uniquely challenging time.
Session topics include:
- The Asset Menu
- Enhanced Portfolio Theory
- Performance Measurement vs. Skill
- Evaluating and Rating Managers: Case
- Behavioral Finance
- Bond Management
- Stock Markets vs. Bond Markets: Case
- Advanced Asset Allocation
- Risk Management
- Private Equity
- International Markets
- Macroeconomic Outlook
- Hedge Funds
- Real Estate
Experts
Jeffrey Jaffe
Education PhD, University of Chicago, 1972; MBA, University of Chicago, 1971; BA, University of Chicago, 1968 Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards Outstanding Professor Award, Evening School, 1990 Academic Positions Held Wharton: 1973-present. Jeffrey F. Jaffe and Anup Agrawal ...
Christopher Geczy
Chris Geczy has been on the Finance Faculty at Wharton since 1997 and is Academic Director of the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. He is also Academic Director of the Wharton Wealth Management Initiative at Wharton Executive Education. He has a B.A. in eco...
Gordon Bodnar
Expertise Topics Corporate Finance Economics International Financial Markets International Finance Multinational Corporations Background and Education Dr. Bodnar is the Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance. He has been the Director of the International Economics Program at Johns ...
Krishna Ramaswamy
Education PhD, Stanford University, 1978; MBA, Duke University, 1973; BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1971 Recent Consulting Investment Management, Bankers Trust, International Monetary Fund Academic Positions Held Wharton: 1985present (named Edward Hopkinson, Jr. Profess...
Joao Gomes
Education PhD, University of Rochester, 1997; MA, University of Rochester, 1996; BS, Nova SBE, Portugal, 1991 Background Professor Gomes has been at the Wharton School since 1997. His expertise lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and financial markets where he has taught several courses to...
Craig MacKinlay
Education PhD, University of Chicago, 1985; MBA, University of Chicago, 1983; MBA, University of Western Ontario, 1980; BS, University of Western Ontario, 1978 Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards Oxford University Press Century Publication Celebration 100 Best Papers of All Tim...
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