Topics include the application of modern risk management to identify, measure, and control property, liability, and personnel risks in business. Also included is the use of safety management, self-insurance, captive insurance, and commercial insurance to control business risk. Fundamental analysis and selection of common stocks, investment timing, investment policy, and portfolio management. Content varies depending on instructor. Topics have included options and futures, mergers and acquisitions.
Content varies depending upon instructor.
Course has included topics in both corporate finance and investments. Topics include the nature of real estate credit, sources of funds, structure of the mortgage market, principles of mortgage risk analysis, and policies and practices of major lending institutions. Also included are basic real estate law principles. Economic theories of value as applied to residential and income properties, factors influencing real-property values, apraising real property, framework for real estate investment decisions, rate of return analysis, determinants of real estate investment policy for borrowers and lenders. MBA 6040 or equivalent.