Course Overview-Course Overview
Syllabus
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Risk and Return-Risk and Return
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1. What is this course all about?
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2. Periodic Returns
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3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns
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4. Evidence
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5. Volatility
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6. Beta
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7. A brief recap
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Readings
Risk and Return-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 1
Correlation and Diversification-Correlation and Diversification
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1. Recap on the Previous Session
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2. Portfolio Risk
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3. The Correlation Coefficient
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4. The Importance of Correlation
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5. Diversification and Correlation Part 1
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6. Diversification and Correlation Part 2
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7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios
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Readings
Correlation and Diversification-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 2
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital-The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
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1. What is the cost of capital?
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2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital
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3. Components and notation
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4. The debt tax shield
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5. The cost of debt
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6. The cost of equity
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7. The CAPM
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Readings
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 3
Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application-Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application
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1. Recap on the previous session
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2. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks
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3. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks; A Few Rounding Comments
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Readings
Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 4
Project Evaluation-Project Evaluation
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1. What is this all about?
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2. Introduction to the Net Present Value (NPV)
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3. The Net Present Value (NPV)
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4. The Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
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5. Shortcomings of the IRR
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6. Evaluating an investment opportunity
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7. Discount rates across countries or divisions
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8. Discount rates over time
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Readings
Project Evaluation-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 5
Corporate Value Creation-Corporate Value Creation
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1. Corporate value creation
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2. Growth and return on growth
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3. Economic value added (EVA)
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4. EVA: Two examples
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5. EVA levels versus EVA changes
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6. Brief wrap up
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Readings
Corporate Value Creation-Quiz
Intro to Quiz 6