Strategies for optimizing international portfolio investment
Course: International economic relations (master)
Structural unit: Educational and scientific institute of international relations
            Title
        
        
            Strategies for optimizing international portfolio investment
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК 6.4
        
    
            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
        
        
            To know the main models for evaluating debt financial instruments, financial futures and options. To know options and futures strategies of international portfolio investment. To know the sources of information about international portfolio investments - at the level of flows and investment characteristics. To know the existing approaches to the optimization of international investment portfolios, their advantages and disadvantages, application methodology. To know the features and specifics of optimizing international investment portfolios and portfolios of local markets. To be able to independently analyze the investment characteristics of individual financial assets.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Distance form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1) Knowledge of the fundametals of international finance.
2) Successful mastering of the course "International Investment Management".
3) Skills of working with electronic databases.
4) Ability to perform simple data operations in Microsoft Excel
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            Part I. Evaluation of investment characteristics of certain 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. Options strategies for international portfolio investment. Futures strategies for managing international investment portfolios. Part II strategies for optimization of international investment portfolios. 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 / П. Дзюба // Вісник Київського національного 
університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія : Міжнародні відносини. – К. : КНУ 
імені Тараса Шевченка ; ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2017. – Вип. 1 (46). –
С. 55–67.
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. : Інститут міжнародних 
відносин 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 
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Lecture (powerpoint presentation), seminar, independent work.
        
    
            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
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Chair of international finance 
Educational and scientific institute of international relations
            Educational and scientific institute of international relations
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Chair of international finance
                    
                    
                        Educational and scientific institute of international relations