Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice

Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice

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  • 4 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on April 1, 2018
  • Ends on April 28, 2018

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Course details

Syllabus

What topics will you cover?

  • Investment planning and decision-making
  • Savings and investment products
  • Investment risks
  • Investment theories – diversification, portfolio theory, capital-asset pricing model
  • Investment theories – efficient market hypothesis, random walk theory, chartism
  • Investment in practice – methods employed by fund managers
  • Historical analysis of investment returns
  • Historical investment episodes and what we learn from them
  • Individual human behavioural biases and investment decision-making
  • Group human behavioural biases and investment decision-making

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Martin Upton
I am Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously I was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.

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