This advanced course will provide you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge you acquired in prerequisite classes to real-life investment decisions. This course applies financial theory to the issues and problems of asset management. In order to understand these issues, we must start with the specific goals, characteristics, and considerations of the asset owners. Asset owners may be individuals (e.g. personal wealth), collective owners (e.g. families or pension funds), charitable endowments and foundations (e.g. KAUST), corporations, and nations (e.g. sovereign wealth funds (SWF)).