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Professional Competence
  • Know the basic asset classes and their respective financial instruments.
  • Know the difference between strategical and tactical asset allocation.
  • List the requirements and repeat the basic concepts of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Know the difference between Sharpe-Ratio and Information-Ratio
  • List the requirements and how to derive the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
  • Know how to extend the Single-index-Model to Multi-Factor Models.
  • Know the concepts of Arbitrage and how to derive the resulting model of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
  • Understand the basic financial instruments and their pricing.
  • Describe the optimal investment process.
  • Understand portfolio statistics and underlying statistical concepts.
  • Explain the difference between risky and risk-free assets.
  • Describe the outcomes of portfolio theory in a risk-return diagram.
  • Understand the concept of risk, its decomposition into unsystematic and systematic risk, and the effects of (naïve) diversification.
  • Understand the concept of beta in the Single-Index Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and the market risk-premium in context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and factor portfolios in the Multi-Factor-Model.
  • Understand the concepts of Arbitrage.
  • Understand why APT is a much more general concept of market equilibrium than CAPM.
  • Understand the working and pricing of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the term structure of interest rates and their influence on the prices of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the implications of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis on financial markets.
  • Calculate the risk and return of financial instruments based on observable market values.
  • Calculate the Minimum-Variance-Portfolio.
  • Calculate the optimal risky portfolio.
  • Calculate the idiosyncratic and the market-specific risk of a portfolio.
  • Calculate an optimal portfolio in the context of Single-Index-Models.
  • Calculate the Security Market Line in the CAPM and derive Arbitrage Opportunities thereon.
  • Calculate Bond Yields, Duration and other measures of fixed income securities and fixed income portfolios.
  • Know how to design an event study to test and identify flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
  • Perform financial statement analysis.
  • Estimate Index-Models, and how to derive an optimal portfolio in this context.
  • Analyze financial instruments in the common context of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Understand the Two-Fund Separation Theorem and derive the Capital Market Line.
  • Find Arbitrage Opportunities.
  • Relate different concepts of market equilibrium.
  • Identify and exploit arbitrage opportunities.
  • Identify the efficiency of financial markets.
  • Combine different assets in an optimal portfolio.
  • Relate the concept of the risk-return tradeoff to the optimal allocation of assets.
  • Relate the concept of the Efficient Market Theory to observed market conditions.
  • Evaluate the different models in the context of changing market conditions.
  • Decide upon investment opportunities by evaluating any type of equity and fixed income securities.
  • Evaluate equity and fixed income instruments.
  • Evaluate optimal allocations of assets in the Markowitz Context.
Personal Competence
  • Listen carefully to those vis-à-vis, especially in critical situations
  • Tolerate feedback
  • Recognize potential for improvement in their own behavior
  • Cooperate with other students
  • Assess and justify the selected approach to solutions
  • Reflect on and assess their own actions. Explain themselves and adapt any new behavior to the group values
  • Through their own behaviour, influence group processes and reflect on the effects.
  • Support colleagues.
  • Influence group processes through empathetic behavior
  • Reflect on these processes."
Social Competence
  • accept peer feedback in an appreciative and constructive way
  • recognize group dynamic processes
  • accept not only their own but also other members' positions
  • pay attention to colleagues
  • care about other team members in case they need help
  • designate responsibility to persons for different tasks
  • explain themselves and their actions in their teams.
  • Assume responsibility for team members.
  • Compensate for differences and tensions.
  • Analyze team structures, evaluate interrelations and are able to create a positive working environment
  • Defend measures taken with confidence to others
  • Contribute actively to build constructive group rules.
Methodological Competence
  • Conduct literature research independently
  • Apply reading techniques to grasp new texts
  • Analyze the, for them personally, most suitable strategies for effective and efficient reading and learning
  • Consider and assess their own, as well as unfamiliar ways of solving problems
  • Analyze their experience of group dynamics and the communication behavior of persons involved
  • Assess their own and the behavior of their team members through predefined criteria and consider their personal values, as well as the values of others
  • Receive and give feedback, assess it for themselves and decide on the validity and weight for implementation
Personal Competence
  • Die Studierenden erkennen das Synergiepotential zwischen theoretischem Hintergrundwissen, konstruktivem know-how und entwerferischer Kreativität.
  • Sie sind fähig, das Erlernte vernetzt in den Lernprozess mit anderen Fächern einfliessen zu lassen.
Social Competence
  • Die Studierenden arbeiten in Zweierteams an Zeichnungen.
  • Sie vertreten den eigenen Standpunkt in der zugehörigen Diskussion
Methodological Competence
  • Die Studierenden analysieren bestehende Bauten selbstständig nach den konstruktiv-gestalterischen Gesichtspunkten der Tektonik.
  • Sie verstehen es, die tektonischen Gedanken in gebauten Beispielen zu demonstrieren und entwickeln eigene konstruktiv-gestalterische Umsetzungen.
Professional Competence
  • Die Studierenden kennen den geschichtlichen Hintergrund und die unterschiedlichen Definitionen des Begriffs Tektonik.
  • Sie verstehen den Zusammenhang zwischen den Eigenschaften von Baumaterialien und den Möglichkeiten ihrer Fügung.
  • Sie beurteilen zeitgenössische Konzepte des tektonischen Bauens kritisch.
Social Competence
  • evaluate their own and other's products of learning
Professional Competence
  • interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity in oral communication that makes interaction with native speakers free of strain for either party
  • present an architectural project in a structured way, highlighting key aspects
  • participate in discussions about the field of architecture by explaining problems and opinions, evaluating ideas and responding to hypotheses
  • understand the main ideas in complex architectural texts dealing with concrete and abstract topics
  • describe places, objects, sketches and plans and develop ideas systematically
  • * Vgl. dazu http://www.coe.int/t/DG4/Portfolio/?M=/main_pages/levels.html
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