Each student will be required to develop a strategy for investing a specific sum of money in a student managed portfolio of securities. Students may select up to 10 securities. Student will be asked to explain the recommendations for assets included in the portfolio. Student must specify their intended investment objective and risk tolerance in their recommendations. The student team will be required to formulate in-depth analysis and calculations of the proposed portfolio performances over the last month, six months, one year, five years and ten years prior to the presentation based on data from such sources as Bloomberg, CRSP, COMPUSTAT and Yahoo! Finance while utilizing tools such as EXCEL. Portfolio performance should be based on such measures as average return, standard deviation of returns, beta from the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and Jensens alpha.

Student Deliverables pertaining to the Capstone Project:

1 Select an arbitrary age group of a client of your choice.

2 Identify clients investment goals along with risks

3 Identify existing liabilities such as loans , tuition fees / assets Car artifacts etc

4 Identify a risk aversion score

5 Come up with your advice / suggestions to the client as his Financial advisor

6 Based on Client preferences come up with asset distribution mix

Cash

Bond

Equities proportions [ refer CAL CML CAPM notes]

7 Write your stock/ bond / T-securities picking / selection strategies.

8 Consider ETF , Index Funds , Mutual Funds

9 Write a portfolio review policy

10 Construct the portfolio using the data 2014-2016 and optimize using Shape ratio

11 Update the portfolio with 2017 2018 2019 data

12 Now compare portfolio performance of 204-2016 with 2017-2019

13 Suggest a reallocation of assets in the portfolio

14 Conclusion

Write a comprehensive written project analysis and submit a 15-20 pages write-up supported by tables of data-analysis in the Appendix. The capstone project analysis encompass (but not limited to) the following areas, for which a score will be given. These 9 scores are for the purpose of validating assurance of learning:

1. Score 1: The demonstration of the students ability to identify how the current financial environment affects the risk and return of the portfolio. (FINC-LO1-A);
2. Score 2: The students ability to extract appropriate financial and accounting data from various sources in order to conduct and support the portfolio analysis (FINC-LO1-B);
3. Score 3: The students ability to use and appraise the data collected in a meaningful way (FINC-LO1-C);
4. Score 4: The students ability to estimate enterprise value creation and extract financial asset values from overall enterprise values (FINC-LO2-A);
5. Score 5: The students ability to evaluate financial assets by reference to peer companies using relevant and appropriate benchmarks of risk and return (FINC-LO2-B);
6. Score 6: The students demonstration of resulting business strategies that may be driven by secondary ramifications (FINC-LO2-C);
7. Score 7: The students ability to assess risk (uncertainty) (FINC-L03-A);
8. Score 8: The students ability to justify her/his recommendation(s) (FIN-LO3-B);
9. The students demonstration of understanding the impact of the global environment on portfolio returns and risk (FINC-LO3-C).