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Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the various behavioral biases – mistakes that investors make and understand their reasons. You will learn how to recognize your own mistakes as well as others’ and understand how these mistakes can affect investment decisions and financial markets. You will also explore how different preferences and investment horizons impact the optimal asset allocation choice. After this course, you will be more effective in overcoming biases to do the wrong things at the wrong times and tailoring an investment strategy that is best suited on your or your client’s profile and investment needs.
Syllabus
SEMAINE 1
- Efficient markets hypothesis and limits of arbitrage
SEMAINE 2
- Biases and realistic preferences
SEMAINE 3
- Inefficient markets
SEMAINE 4
- Applications: Investor behavior
Instructors
Arzu Ozoguz
Finance Faculty
Jones Graduate School of Business
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The course material is excellent to give first the financial background necessary to understand portfolio selection, then introduce the psychological factors that get in the way of making "cold and objective" decisions. The subject is kept very interesting throughout. Possibly my favourite course out of the four in the specialization.
The course material is excellent to give first the financial background necessary to understand portfolio selection, then introduce the psychological factors that get in the way of making "cold and objective" decisions. The subject is kept very interesting throughout. Possibly my favourite course out of the four in the specialization.
One of the best courses on the subject. Period.Dr. O, does a great job in uncovering the biases that affect investors and funds. A must if you are serious about investing and managing a portfolio.
A bit too easy in comparison to the previous module. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is perfectly explained as well as many other things. I think more practical manipulations with data would have been useful.
Extremely interesting but could be more detailed showing more specific data and examples with downloadable spreadsheets.
Quite disappointing. Lecturers / tutors no responding in time, and the solution provided are questionable, which already happened in earlier courses of this specialisation.
