Beginners' Financial Market: Assets, Players, & Investments
What you'll learn
- Differentiate between real assets and financial assets
- Identify different types of financial assets
- Explain the decisions associated with different portfolio construction strategies
- Recognize the implications of competitive financial markets
- Classify the major players and their role in financial markets
Requirements
- No specific prerequisite but should be able to recognize the potential success of investing in financial assets.
Description
THIS IS A BEGINNER'S COURSE... :)
Welcome to the market of fund - THE FINANCIAL MARKET.
Are you a stock investor?
Are you planning to invest in stocks and other financial assets?
Do you want to be a smart investors who potentially outperform others by getting more return with less risk?
Do you want to know the players making up the financial market setting?
Are you interested to know the constraints you may encounter in a highly competitive market?
Are you looking forward for a better investment management strategy?
If the answers to the above questions are 'YES', then this course is for you.
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As an investor in the financial market securities like stocks, bonds, funds, or financial derivatives, we should know the structure and players of the financial markets. This would make it possible to formulate and employ better investment management strategies and a greater success.
Knowledge of the nature of financial assets, financial market participants, competition and its impact in the financial market, and types of investment management strategies and actions can start preparing one as well-informed, smart, and wise investor who could outperform many others just following others' actions and/or rumors in the market.
Hence, the aim of this course is to introduce the students with financial and real assets for investment, investment setting in the financial markets, and the basic investment management decisions and strategies.
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More specifically, at the end of this course you should be able to:
differentiate between real assets and financial assets.
identify different types of financial assets.
explain the decisions associated with different portfolio construction strategies.
recognize the implications of competitive financial markets.
classify the major players and their role in financial markets.
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Looking forward to see you in the course.
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This course consists of several video lectures that will be updated over time and based on students' requests, quizzes at the end of every section for testing your level of understanding, and additional resources. The lectures contain explanations of necessary concepts along with examples and illustrations.
The instructor welcomes his students for continuous discussion with him. Any sort of input for improving the course is also appreciated. He also expects your positive and genuine review and rating of the course
Who this course is for:
- Stock traders
- Investors
- Anyone who wants to be familiar with financial markets
- Anyone who intends to employ appropriate investment strategies
- Novice investment managers
Instructor
Dr. Md Mohan Uddin is currently a Professor of Finance at United International University. Before that, he held various senior faculty member positions at universities in Bangladesh and Malaysia. He also taught online Masters students of University of Roehampton and supervised online graduate dissertation students of University of Liverpool. During his academic career, he has been teaching undergraduate/graduate level business and finance courses since 2003. The courses he taught include: Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Management, Principles of Finance, Investment Analysis, Bank Management, Banking & Insurance, Project Management, Strategic Management, and Computer Applications in Business. He has got his PhD in Finance from Universiti Utara Malaysia, and MBA and BBA degrees majoring in Finance and Banking from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He enjoys making learning and instruction videos and is very much excited to be engaged with online platforms like Udemy and skillshare, where he can utilize those technologies for the purpose of reaching a large number of learners worldwide. In addition to presenting research papers in international conferences he has also been active in publishing research articles in different local and international journals in the area of finance. His area of interest includes corporate finance, capital market and its regulation, international finance, financial criminology, Islamic finance and small business finance.