MBA Course, KSU, 2025
The objective of this course is to study theory and empirical evidence relevant for portfolio management. An emphasis is placed on understanding how an investment professional would allocate funds in a hypothetical portfolio. Major topics include estimation of capital market parameters, trade-off between risk and return, optimal portfolio selection, equilibrium asset pricing models, and delegated portfolio management
Years Teaching: 2025
Undergraduate Course, KSU - Muzahmiyah Campus, 2022
This course provides a mathematical introduction into the area of finance. More specifically, it attempts to explain the math behind neoclassical theories in financial asset pricing, such as expected return and risk, present value, pricing contracts, and the Black-Scholes Formula. Mastering the contents covered in this course will help students prepare for either a graduate degree in Finance or a career in Financial Engineering.
Years Teaching: 2022-2023. Average Evaluation score: 3.73 out of 5
Undergraduate Course, KSU - Muzahmiyah Campus, 2022
The course is designed to extend and deepen practical understanding of a range of topics in finance and investments. Students’ ability to make sound investment decisions will be improved in this course through reading, analyzing, and finding solutions to real-world investment cases.
Upon the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to gather and analyze raw financial data, then use this data to construct an efficient portfolio.
Years Teaching: 2022-2023. Average Evaluation score: 4.03 out of 5
Undergraduate Course, KSU, 2022
This course is designed to provide a foundation for the fundamental principles related to investments. An emphasis is placed on understanding how an investment professional would allocate funds in a hypothetical portfolio. Topics include trade-off between risk & return, optimal portfolio selection, equilibrium asset pricing models, equity valuation, and fixed-income securities. Among the main objectives of this course is understanding how security markets function, and learning how to develop investment strategies. Mastering the material covered in the course will help prepare students for both level 1 and level 2 of the CFA exam.
Years Teaching: 2022-2025. Average Evaluation score: 3.77 out of 5
Undergraduate Course, USC, Darla Moore School of Business, 2017
The course provides an in-depth discussion of fundamental principles related to investment analysis and portfolio management. Topics include investment instruments, portfolio theory, equity valuation, fixed-income securities, and option valuation. Upon the completion of the course, students are expected to understand security market functions, recognize the risk-return trade-off in investments, and able to develop investment strategies. Further, understanding the knowledge covered in the course help students prepare for the CFA exams.
Years Teaching: 2017, 2019. Average Evaluation score: 4.41 out of 5
Undergraduate Course, ISU, Scott College of Business, 2015
An introductory business statistics course. Topics include graphical concepts of statistics, measures of central tendency & dispersion, basic concepts of probability and random variables, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals. Learning is assisted by statistical software applications. Problem solving for decision making is the emphasis of this course.
(Evaluation score: 3.77 out of 5)