Strategies for optimizing international investment portfolios

Course: International finance and investments

Structural unit: Educational and scientific institute of international relations

Title
Strategies for optimizing international investment portfolios
Code
ВК 2.8
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
Know: basic models for valuing debt financial instruments, financial futures and options; option and futures strategies of international portfolio investment; sources of information on international portfolio investments - at the level of flows and investment characteristics; existing approaches to the optimization of international investment portfolios, their advantages and disadvantages, application methodology; features and specifics of optimization of international investment portfolios and portfolios of local markets. Be able to: conduct an independent analysis of investment characteristics of individual financial assets; to find statistical data on international portfolio investments, to form arrays of these data suitable for analysis; independently optimize international investment portfolios by various methods.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1) Command of general material on international finance. 2) Successful mastering of the course "International Portfolio Investment". 3) Availability of skills in working with electronic databases. 4) Ability to perform simple data operations in Microsoft Excel
Course content
Part І. Evaluation of investment characteristics of individual financial assets. Introduction to the course. Evaluation and strategies for the formation of international debt portfolios Options evaluation: binomial model Option evaluation: Black-Scholes model Optional strategies for international portfolio investment International Investment Portfolio Futures Management Strategies Part ІІ. Strategies for optimization of international investment portfolio. Sources of information on international portfolio investments Using modern software to optimize international investment portfolios Kelly optimization International optimal portfolios with asymmetric distribution of yields Criteria for optimization on the principle of maximum certainty Optimal portfolios of stochastic dominance
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Дзюба П. В. Еволюція суб’єктивного підходу до оптимізації міжнародних інвестиційних портфелів // Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія : Міжнародні відносини. – К. : КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка ; ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2017. – Вип. 1 (46). 2. Дзюба П. В. Оптимізація інвестиційних портфелів за принципом максимальної визначеності: альтернативний погляд на формування портфельної парадигми міжнародного інвестування / П. Дзюба // Актуальні проблеми міжнародних відносин : Зб. наук. праць. – К. : ІМВ КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка, 2017. – Вип. 132. – С. 109–124. 3. Дзюба П. В. Оптимізація міжнародних інвестиційних портфелів за середньою геометричною дохідністю: еволюційний погляд на позапарадигмальну концепцію / Дзюба П. В. // Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету : Наук. період. вид. Серія : Економічні науки. – Вип. 26 : У 2 ч. – Херсон : Херсонський державний університет ; «Видавничий дім «Гельветика», 2017. – Ч. 1. – С. 38–44.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, individual work, modular work control, presentation.
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Work at seminars - speeches, additions, discussions, debates, blitz tests, solving typical problems - 30 points / 18 points. 2. Case report - 35 points / 21 points. 3. Test (combined test) - 35 points / 21 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

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