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Excel for Investment Professionals

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Overview

Leverage Excel to make sound investments. Learn how to perform key investment-related activities in Excel, including investment evaluation and analysis on a stock or portfolio.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Using Excel to make sound investments
  • What you should know
1. Major Tasks in the Investments Industry
  • Reviewing basic principles
  • Reviewing asset allocation
  • Reviewing beta
  • Reviewing multiples and stock valuation
  • Reviewing smart beta
2. Single Stock Investment Analysis
  • Setting up time series data on a stock
  • Computing holding period returns
  • Computing time series momentum: Market timing
  • Compute rolling P/E and P/B multiples for a stock
  • Building a discounted cash flow model
  • Building a dividend discount model
3. Investment Evaluation in Excel
  • Computing expected returns on a stock
  • Using probability to calculate stock returns
  • Computing arithmetic and geometric returns in a portfolio
  • Computing standard deviation and variance of an asset
  • Finding covariances and correlations
  • Computing standard deviation and variance of a portfolio
  • Computing beta of an asset
  • Computing risk for a portfolio with many stocks
4. Investment Evaluation in Excel
  • Computing asset allocation
  • Computing cross-sectional momentum
  • Computing correlations between stocks
  • Evaluating hedge funds and mutual funds with portfolio attribution
  • Valuing a bond in Excel
  • Performing scenario analysis
5. Portfolio Performance Evaluation
  • Setting up allocations
  • Scenario analysis in a portfolio
  • Computing expected risk on a portfolio
  • Computing portfolio Sharpe ratios
  • Computing information ratios
  • Computing Sortino ratios
  • Calculating Treynor measures
  • Calculating VaR
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Michael McDonald

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