Apr 04, 2025  
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

AMS 512 - Capital Markets and Portfolio Theory


Development of capital markets and portfolio theory in both continuous time and multi-period settings. Utility theory and its application to the determination of optimal consumption and investment policies. Asymptotic growth under conditions of uncertainty. Applications to problems in strategic asset allocation over finite horizons and to problems in public finance. Whenever practical, examples will use real market data. Numerical exercises and projects in a high-level programming environment will also be assigned.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ​