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This course focuses on modern quantitative portfolio theory, models, and analysis. Topics include intertemporal approaches to modeling and optimizing asset selection and asset allocation; benchmarks (indexes), performance assessment (including, Sharpe, Treynor and Jenson ratios) and performance attribution; immunization theorems; alpha-beta separation in management, performance measurement and attribution; Replicating Benchmark Index (RBI) strategies using cash securities / derivatives; Liability-Driven Investment (LDI); and the taxonomy and techniques of strategies for traditional management: Passive, Quasi-Passive (Indexing) Semi-Active (Immunization & Dedicated) Active (Scenario, Relative Value, Total Return and Optimization). In addition, risk management and hedging techniques are also addressed.