FINC321

A study of the analysis of risk and rate of return on various types of securities; forces affecting security values, financial statement analysis and valuation techniques; theory and practice of individual and institutional investment management; application of portfolio theory and valuation to investment analysis and portfolio management; investment strategy in view of taxation of capital gains and losses; mutual funds and real estate investment trusts; alternative instruments in both inflationary and deflationary economies, and evaluation of secondary markets.