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WHARTON: AM2-1 Asset Management Fundamentals

AM2-1 Asset Management Fundamentals


WHARTON
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

About This Course

Presentation:

Before looking at products and allocation strategies, it is important to develop an understanding for how the asset management industry works. The goal of this course is for participants to walk away with a firm grasp of the industry’s principles, attributes, players, strategies and regulations

Program:

Week 1: Asset Management overview

Week 2: Investment Analysis and the Modern Portfolio Theory

Week 3: Equilibrium in the Asset Management Market

Week 4: Regulation

The teachers:

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JULES VAN BINSBERGEN

Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School

Jules van Binsbergen conducts theoretical and empirical research in finance.

His current work focuses on asset pricing, in particular the relationship between financial markets and the macro economy, and the organization, skill and performance of financial intermediaries.

Some of his recent research focuses on the influence of financial market anomalies on real economic activity, measuring the skill of mutual fund managers and the term structure of cash flow growth and stock return predictability. Professor van Binsbergen’s research has appeared in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

He received his PhD from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. After obtaining his PhD in 2008, he joined the faculty at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he got tenure in 2014. He joined the Wharton School in 2014.

  1. Course Number

  2. Classes Start

    2018-09-24

  3. Classes End