Yays... Portfolio management quiz 1 is over. Woohoo~ Its so bloody easy. I couldn't believe this is a BF3XX course. It should be relabelled as a BF2XX course. Haha... Although some had difficulties using calculus to derive minimum variance portfolio weights, I managed to solve it. Yays. Lucky I didn't spend alot of time to study hard for it. Haha.. Nevertheless, there were 2 mcqs which I was unsure of. Heck... Haha...

Okie enough for the quiz. Today is FYP day. Haha... Wish us luck. If you are passing by holland v drop by and give us your blessings. Haha... I just learnt that the word limit for FYP write up is 7000 words. I seriously think the research we are doing cannot be contained in just 7000 words. For one, research write ups have to be precise and technical. Two, we have 2 parts, the first part has a few variables and the second part has 14 variables. Oh wells... So... I don't know how. Another issue is that the writing style of a FYP report has to be very different from the normal project write ups we submit. You will understand if you read enough journal articles when you were doing research methods project. Haha... Some of my friends have submitted their first draft and their tutors reprimanded them that its not even a draft. Candy told me that the tutor said their first draft is a negative draft. Like its not even the a draft like that. Omg. I hope our first draft will not suffer the fate of being called a negative draft.

Talking about journal articles, yesterday Prof. Lui told us about an interesting article. The article is titled Boys will be Boys. You can google it and find the article. The article researched on how gender and marriage plays a part in the performance of individual investors in the stock market. I thought it was very interesting. The results of the research showed that the best performers were single female and the worst performers were single male. On the other hand, marriage causes the performance of males to improve while causing the performance of females to deteriorate. The reasons for these results are linked to behavioural finance. Those interested in this realm of study might find this article pretty interesting. Ya... So all single females, its time you invest! Since you are best performers, you are bound to be able to earn a huge return from investment. Haha...