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Quantative Methods
Learning outcomes and topics for Quantative Methods
Course
Session
1. Rates and Returns
a. interpret interest rates as required rates of return, discount rates, or opportunity costs and explain an interest rate as the sum of a real risk-free rate and premiums that compensate investors for bearing distinct types of risk
b. calculate and interpret different approaches to return measurement over time and describe their appropriate uses
c. compare the money-weighted and time-weighted rates of return and evaluate the performance of portfolios based on these measures
d. calculate and interpret annualized return measures and continuously compounded returns, and describe their appropriate uses