B8377-001: Value Investing
Full Block Week - 09:00AM to 05:00PM
Credit hours: 3.0
Location: Online
Method of Instruction: Online
Instructor: Tano Santos
Prerequisite(s): B6300: Corporate Finance
Corequisite(s): B8306: Capital Markets & Investments
This class, taught in Term A, is intended to teach students the fundamentals of the value approach to investment management developed by Graham and Dodd. This will be done through a combination of formal lectures, cases and in-class valuation discussions. The substantive areas covered will include (1) the fundamental assumptions and approaches to value investing, (2) techniques for assessing fundamental value – balance sheet and earnings power approaches, (3) structuring value-based portfolios to control risk and (4) designing strategies for searching efficiently for value investing opportunities.
Tano Santos
David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance
Professor Santos' research focuses on two distinct areas. A first interest is the field of asset pricing with a particular emphasis on theoretical and empirical models that can account for the predictability of returns, both in the time series and the cross section. A second interest of Professor Santos is applied economic theory, specifically, the economics of financial innovations as well as theory of...