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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