ISE Essentials of Investments notes (11th edition)

This document includes all notes for Investment analysis and portfolio management, given by Koen Inghelbrecht (2021-2022). This should be learned next to the slides.

This summary contains all the material from the lectures that is required for the exam of Intermediate Asset Pricing

very detailed summary of the book and some academic articles.

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Investment vehicles * Risk and return * Diversification and portfolio risk * Asset pricing * Market efficiency * Debt securities * Industry analysis * Equity securities * Illiquid investments * Derivative strategies * Performance evaluation Readings summaries: * How Much is a Tulip Worth? * Investor Flows and the Assessed Performance of Open-End Mutual Funds * Summary Edition Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yea...

An introduction to option markets looking at call and put options from both the holder and writers perspective with graphs. Option strategies are looked at to have an understanding of payoffs and profits of the different options with graph illustrations. The put-call parity is also summarized along with other theory.

A brief summary on option valuation. Focus is on the binomial option pricing and black scholes option valuation. As well as looking at the determinants of option values.

This document consists of 3 parts. First of all, there is the very extensive table of contents that not only contains titles, subtitles etc, but also all enumerations, types (bonds),... Next, there is an abbreviation list indicating all the abbreviations used (by chapter alphabetical list) from books, slides, formulas. As 3rd there is the formuary (per chapter) with all known formulas.