ECON 581
Investment Strategies
Course examines issues in personal investment strategies. Topics include behavioral finance, closed-end and open-end mutual funds, data-mining, diversification, efficient market hypothesis, equity premium, exchange-traded funds, expenses and transaction costs, life cycle investing, market timing, passive versus active investing, survivorship bias, tax managed investing, time zone arbitrage, Robert Shiller's CAPE, Tobin's Q. Prerequisite: Economics 201D.
Topics
- behavioral finance
- closed-end and open-end mutual funds
- data-mining
- diversification
- efficient market hypothesis
- equity premium
- exchange-traded funds
- expenses and transaction costs
- life cycle investing
- market timing
- passive versus active investing
- survivorship bias
- tax managed investing
- time zone arbitrage
- Robert Shiller's CAPE
- Tobin's Q
Topics explicitly listed in official catalogue description
Prerequisites & course information
000674
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027