The main aim of the course is to teach tools and principles and the basic concepts of investing in financial markets. Also to inform students about portfolio management and provide investment evaluation. By these ways, their abilities of investment making and portfolio creating are aimed to be developed.

The investment environment and market players; stock exchanges and capital market activities in Turkey, interest rates, time value of money; portfolio risk and return; Portfolio selection; The capital asset pricing model (CAPM); factor models; arbitrage pricing theory; efficient market hypothesis and anomalies; stocks and transactions in the ISE stock market; valuation of shares; bonds, fundamental analysis; technical analysis; portfolio management strategies; futures contracts; option contracts and options valuation.