Curtin Business School
Department of Finance and Banking

Portfolio Management 301 Semester 1, 2013 - Assignment

Instructions

1. This is a group assignment. Each group will consist of three students and each group will submit one joint report.

2. In doing this assignment, you are encouraged to refer to the lecture notes, text, the reading material in Blackboard and any other material that may assist you in understanding what you are doing in this assignment. Group members are expected to actively discuss and work among themselves but not refer to the work of any other groups. Any collusion of this form will be treated very seriously and penalised.

3. Please ensure that each member in a group makes an equal contribution to the assignment, as far as possible. Free riders should be reported to me and may be penalised.

4. You are expected to make this assignment an opportunity to develop you spreadsheet computational skills. Make use of Excel to do your calculations and charts/graphs.

5. Assignments must be presented in a professional and reader-friendly manner. The key results or summaries of your calculation and your comments must be shown in the body of the report. Make sure the formulas or methods used for your computations are clearly shown. The data collected and details of calculations can be shown as appendices to the report. The length of the report should not exceed 10 pages (Excluding the appendices). You should also follow the following typing conventions:
• Times New Roman Font (at minimum, 12 pitch);
• 1 ½ line spacing;
• Top, bottom, left and right margins to be at least 2½cm; and

6. Ensure that you give adequate references to the sources from which you have gathered data or information in compiling your report.

7. The criteria used in assessing your marks on this assignment will include:
Computational accuracy,