Portfolio Management Program

Every year students are selected in a highly competitive interview process to join the two-year PMP program. The first-year students become financial analysts that get to know the portfolio and support the second year students, who act as managers and are in charge of the actual asset management process. This structure ensures that portfolio decisions are coordinated among analysts and managers, which is crucial since the portfolios are rolled over to the next student cohort once a year.

 

The PMP meetings take place on a weekly basis and can be broadly classified into the following four categories:

 

1, Manager Meeting 

 

The managers present a portfolio update referring to current performance and risk measures. Additionally, they give an update of the trades that were done and those that are planned. They are also asked to present a general market outlook with respect to their portfolio composition. The managers also have to prepare a discussion (critique) of the manager presentation of another group.

 

3, Expert Talk

 

Approximately three times per semester top academic researchers and experts in the field of financial markets give a talk on their state-of-the-art research and current financial market issues.

 

2, Analyst Meeting

 

The analysts present their research on market regions, asset classes or investment strategies that are linked to their current portfolio composition. Additionally, they are asked to present new and innovative concepts that are discussed with their managers and tutors in advance. 
 

 

4, Technical Meeting

 

This involves the preparation of an exercise related to a specific subject.  Each student group solves a set of empirical asset management problems and presents it along with a lecture typically by one of the PMP professors. In addition to the Technical Meetings, students get access to Data Camp, where they can choose to learn from a variety of coding courses.
 

Contact University of Vienna

The contact person at University of Vienna with respect to the Portfolio Management Program is

Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andrea Gaunersdorfer.
Universität Wien
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
A-1090 Wien
Zimmer: 06.325

Tel.: (+43-1) 4277 / 38056
E-Mail: andrea.gaunersdorfer(at)univie.ac.at

Contact Vienna University of Economics and Business

The contact person at Vienna University of Economics and Business with respect to the Portfolio Management Program is

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Otto Randl
WU Wien
Welthandelsplatz 1
1020 Wien

Tel.: (+43) 1 31336 / 5076
E-Mail: otto.randl(at)wu.ac.at

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