FINM3045/7045 Assignments
All assignemnts of this course is about an individual project.
In this project, you act as a consultant to design an investment strategy for a profession-
ally managed portfolio in Asian securities. You are expeced to design an investment strategy
for a fund manager who is going to actually buy and sell securities for his/her portfolio. The
portfolio strategy must be a conceptual framework for a fund manager that sets its invest-
ment policy for a long-term horizon, rather than recommending certain securities to trade
at certain timing in a short period.
Your role of in providing consultancy. You are an analyst that specializes in gov-
ernance, law and institutions, which you learn in this course (after lecture 4). Assume
your colleagues have already done Macroeconomic analyisi, Industry analysis and Financial
analysis of individual firms. So you do not need to do your colleagues’ work.
The objective of the project. Please report (1) three Asian stocks a fund manager
might select based on your strategy; and (2) three Asian stocks a fund manager might want
to avoid based on your strategy. The stocks are recommended among the largest 10 stocks
(according to reasonably recent ranking) in terms of market capitalization in each country.
You may include more than one stock from a country in your portfolio. You must summerize
why the fund manager might choose each stock.
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Assignment 1: Project Plan Each student should write down a proposed timeline for
the project to indicate the approximate weeks of your plan. The plan should be within one
A4 page. The deadline is 5pm 01/04/2022 (end of week 5) via Turnitin. Assignement is
worths 0% in your final marks.
Assignment 2: Project Report Each student should write down a project report. The
report must be no more than 3000 words excluding cover page, reference and appendix.
Please format the document as a professional consultancy report, which includes
(1) Cover page;
(2) Executive summary;
(3) Introduction;
(4) Factual supportive information or analysis;
(5) Conclusion;
(6) Reference;
(7) Appendix (optional, up to three A4 pages).
The dealine is 5pm 03/06/2022 (end of week 12) via Turnitin. Assignment 2 is worth 40%
of your final marks.
Submission requirement. Please name your files as: FINM3045/7045 (ID number)-
(description), e.g., FINM3045 u1234567-Title.dox, FINM7045 u1234567-Title.dox. You may
lose marks for not following the required file name. We do NOT accept late submission.
Some tips for working on the project. When you working on the project, you must
take into account what you learn from the course. As you learn more as you proceed in this
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course, you should assess your ideas continuously throughout the course until you submit
the report on the due date.
When you examin which stocks you would want to recommend, do NOT try to examine
every single stock in detail at once. You should develop the criteria based on what you
learn from the course, then start to choose several stocks. You might apply your investment
criteria that you know from other courses and narrow down the selection. But the main
criteria should be the ones covered in this course (after Lecture 4). You need NOT report
any macroeconomic (including currency), industrial, and financial analysis or do any financial
ratio analysis. You can repeat the above steps until you find a reasonable pick. You need
not always find stocks that best fits a criterion.
When you write the report, please do NOT create tables and figures with every infor-
mation. Your logic and presentation of your report is also important. DO please write the
report in a format of a professional report.
Please utilize web sources to gather information about individual firms. For example,
you can visit corporate websites, Yahoo finance etc. You may use some libaray database as
well.
Assessment rubrics. The assessment for project report will be based equally on the
following rubrics:
• Strategy (to what extent and how you apply concepts learnt from this course)
• Logic (consistency and persuasiveness)
• Presentation (clarity of presentation)
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