FINS5513 Investments and Portfolio Selection (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.5/5 overall, difficulty 5.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 5.0/5 across 8 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
FINS5513 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the UNSW Business School in School of Banking and Finance. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 投资与组合选择
Type: Postgraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Banking and Finance
Faculty: UNSW Business School
Level: Postgraduate Level 5
Handbook year: 2026
This course develops a basic conceptual framework to understand modern investments. Students will develop a more complete understanding of the risk-return tradeoff and the effects of diversification.
FINS5513 has 8 scored reviews: overall 3.5/5 · usefulness 4.8 · difficulty 5.0 · would-recommend 5.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 review by UNSW students on UNSW Wall (3.3/5 overall); 3 StudentVIP reviews (average 4.7 stars); 4 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.7/5).
On Reddit: "I took this in summer earlier this year. We had two lectures per week in the daytime, but they were recorded. Midterms were on Saturday’s and the final exam will be a random day, might not be on a weekend. It’s a pretty big subject with lots of calculations. I ended up doing qui…"
On Reddit: "Yes that did make it very hard, because I often do an exam and have an epiphany about an earlier question and go back and revisit it. But in this exam I would come to the realisation about how to solve a problem and not be able to go back and do anything about it. That was just …"
The course panel on UNSW Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is FINS5513 hard?
A: Students rate FINS5513's difficulty 5.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it one of the harder courses.
Q: Is FINS5513 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 8 reviews: would-recommend 5.0/5, usefulness 4.8/5, overall 3.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches FINS5513, and when is it offered?
A: FINS5513 is taught by the UNSW Business School. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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