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Portfolio and Risk Management

Financial Markets and Investment Strategy,

This course teaches you the concepts of risk and expected return. This course presents an overview of the basic concepts and techniques used to construct financial portfolios. You will learn about the investment process and get a very good understanding of economic, industry, and company analyses. We will also look at understanding and interpreting major portfolio management and risk concepts. Through this course, you will discover the basic concepts of Modern Portfolio Theory. In the second half of the course we explore the frameworks to measure investment performance, as well as the various measures of investment performance. Finally, you will learn how to measure performance of equity, bonds and hedge funds. After completing this course, you will be able to appreciate the details that go into the creation of investment portfolios.
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Rating 4.0 based on 34 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Starts May 21 (310 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From Indian School of Business via Coursera
Instructor Ramabhadran Thirumalai
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Business
Tags Social Sciences Business Finance Economics

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middle school kids ..

Seems like taking a math tutorial for middle school kids ..

nor consumer driven markets

I think there is far too much mathematics being put into portfolio management and not enough emphasis on behavioral models of investment nor consumer driven markets.

pdf files so student

Provide more material and pdf files so student can learn more.

essential step towards learning

This course is like a essential step towards learning financial management.

helped me get acclimated

The short videos really helped me get acclimated to the format of Coursera.

mathematics brushed up beforehand

The course is easy to understand but it is always a good idea to have basics of economics and mathematics brushed up beforehand.

well organised.course went smoothly

explaining method and class slides all are well organised.course went smoothly.

many scientific mathematical relationships

Like much of the investment world, this is going far too quantitative and searching for too many scientific mathematical relationships that don´t always pan out for real stock prices.

put into portfolio management

bit difficult than

Nice but a bit difficult than the first course in this specialization Great Course!

talks about stocks

This course only talks about stocks and not other financial securities, however the main advantage of this course is that you would learn concepts, ideas and logics that could very well be extended to other financial securities.

some basic knowledge

Some basic knowledge on probability and basic statistics like variance and standard deviation is required.

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Rating 4.0 based on 34 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Starts May 21 (310 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From Indian School of Business via Coursera
Instructor Ramabhadran Thirumalai
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Business
Tags Social Sciences Business Finance Economics

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