
Master asset allocation and explore investment options from cash and bank products to real estate, equity, debt, gold and silver, and funds like mutual funds and exchange traded funds.
Explore portfolio management basics, including risk and return, holding period return and CAGR, and learn how to build an efficient portfolio using diversification, correlation, and standard deviation.
Explore equity in portfolio management, including why it matters and how primary and secondary markets operate. Build trading plan and analyze equity with fundamental and technical analysis, and understand regulations.
Learn how equity represents ownership, how shares outstanding and float determine market cap, and why firms raise equity through common and preferred stock, with dividends and growth.
Explore how equity markets operate in the secondary market, including cash buys, margin trades, short selling, and common order types like market, limit, and stop-loss.
Explore fundamental and technical stock analysis, focusing on story, past and present performance. Understand market efficiency, business cycles, yield curves, and valuation tools for tactical asset allocation.
Learn how micro and macro economics drive equity markets, and analyze GDP concepts, real vs nominal growth, and key indicators like consumption, investment, inflation, unemployment, and trade.
Explore the structure of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, including sales, costs, depreciation, taxes, retained earnings, and cash flow categories.
This lecture guides you through a lease-versus-buy analysis using net present value calculations, cash flows, depreciation and capital cost allowance, taxes, salvage value, and working capital over 20 years.
Explore the four components of technical analysis—price, time, volume, and trend—and learn how charts like line, bar, and candlestick reveal open, high, low, and close data.
Identify uptrends, downtrends, and sideways markets by analyzing higher highs and higher lows, or lower highs and lower lows, and using volume to confirm trends and trading opportunities.
Learn how technical indicators and oscillators reveal trend strength and overbought or oversold conditions, using moving averages, crossovers, Bollinger bands, stochastic and RSI to time entries.
Learn to use technical analysis to trade long stocks by confirming uptrends with support or resistance, RSI near 30, lower Bollinger band, moving averages, crossovers, and stochastic signals.
Analyze bear market dynamics and rising volatility through Zoom Video Communications and Qualcomm, examining free cash flow, debt, dividends, 5G demand, and dollar-cost averaging as a strategy.
Review a bear market through a dead cat bounce lens and VIX signals, and compare Canadian turnaround and momentum strategies using Air Canada, Disney, Alacer Gold, and Regeron.
Examines Google, IBM, Facebook, and Tesla in the tech sector, highlighting balance sheets, free cash flow, and dividends. Advocates keeping 30-40 percent cash when markets heat up.
Examine how covid-19 market shifts impact Delta Airlines, Carnival Corporation, and Under Armour, focusing on insider buying, earnings per share outlook, book value, and margin of safety amid volatility.
Analyze why Bitcoin edges into portfolios as a limited-supply hedge amid massive money printing, with gold-like store-of-value appeal, PayPal and Square adoption, and potential 10x growth over five years.
Explore forward P/E and its use in valuing stocks by projecting earnings, compare to historical PE, and assess whether names like RBC, Apple, Google, and Disney are under or overvalued.
This course will help you understand practically the syllabus of portfolio management and equity analysis .This course is best suited if you are pursing Chartered financial analyst designation (CFA) or taking finance as specialization in your grad and undergrad. The focus of this course is applied learning . This course give you basics of stock trading platform and research platforms.
We would be discussing topics like :
1. Asset allocation
2. Portfolio management - risk and return
3. Types of portfolio management- Active and passive
4. Portfolio management process
5. Basics of equity
6. Types of equity
7. Equity markets - primary market operations
8. Equity markets - secondary markets operations (stock trading )
9. Equity analysis - fundamental and technical analysis
This course has some elements of Bloomberg terminal. I have shown some examples of how Bloomberg terminal can be used to do economic, technical and fundamental analysis.
This course also has actual examples of stock analysis . In stock analysis we would be discussing concepts of core / satellite portfolio , Valuations ratios – P/E , P/S , P/CF , dividend discount model and Free cash flow based valuations , Gordons growth model , impact of economic data on stocks and non-financial analysis.
I have also provided analysis of north American companies so that you can better understand the concepts. Example of companies include - Zoom , Qualcom , Aircanada , Disney , Alacer gold , microsoft etc