MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies

This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance should enroll in the course. More broadly, many students have found that a thorough understanding of capital markets and the business of investment management is valuable in a wider set of careers outside of finance and in managing their personal wealth.

There are two CORE courses in capital markets in the elective curriculum: Investment Management and Investment Strategies. The focus of Investment Management is on the money management industry. The course takes the perspective of both the managers of asset management firms and institutional investors like endowments and sovereign wealth funds. From these viewpoints, students consider issues of growth and profitability, product design and innovation, client engagement, organizational design, performance evaluation, asset allocation, and portfolio risk management. The focus of Investment Strategies is on financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of a portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, growth investing, arbitrage, macroeconomic investing, tactical asset allocation, and other active investment strategies.