A. Lecture 1: Introduction:
1. Groupwork:
• Imagine your group as an investment committee
• You will submit weekly portfolio asset allocations into the simulated stock
market environment managed by Market Class
• You should hold weekly meetings to:
discuss news
evaluate past performance
conduct valuation
make investment decisions, etc
• Keep minutes of your meetings, take notes of work carried out
2. Portfolio Management Simulation: Getting Started and User Guide
• Market-Class is an online fund management simulator
• You have bene asked by a major asset management firm to manage a $100m
fund as a team
• Your goal is to maximize returns and manage the risk of your fund
• Your team will be an active investor in a market alongside your peers
• You will need to make weekly investment decisions over the semester
• All the data and news you need to make your decisions are within the
simulator
• Asset prices adjust based on the buy and sell decisions of your market’s
participants alone
• Market-Class Registration
• Market-Class simulates the Investment process
,• Investment cycle:
• Changing your Fund’s name (Phase 1 only):
• Asset types:
,• Market rules
• Order Execution:
, • Order Execution Buy example:
• Order Execution Sell example:
• Order execution overview:
1. Groupwork:
• Imagine your group as an investment committee
• You will submit weekly portfolio asset allocations into the simulated stock
market environment managed by Market Class
• You should hold weekly meetings to:
discuss news
evaluate past performance
conduct valuation
make investment decisions, etc
• Keep minutes of your meetings, take notes of work carried out
2. Portfolio Management Simulation: Getting Started and User Guide
• Market-Class is an online fund management simulator
• You have bene asked by a major asset management firm to manage a $100m
fund as a team
• Your goal is to maximize returns and manage the risk of your fund
• Your team will be an active investor in a market alongside your peers
• You will need to make weekly investment decisions over the semester
• All the data and news you need to make your decisions are within the
simulator
• Asset prices adjust based on the buy and sell decisions of your market’s
participants alone
• Market-Class Registration
• Market-Class simulates the Investment process
,• Investment cycle:
• Changing your Fund’s name (Phase 1 only):
• Asset types:
,• Market rules
• Order Execution:
, • Order Execution Buy example:
• Order Execution Sell example:
• Order execution overview:
