
Explore active and passive investing, and learn about real, financial, speculative, venture, and portfolio investments, including risk profiles and how to build diversified portfolios.
Calculate the present value of multiple cash flows by discounting each payment at 6% and summing them, then determine the future value of varied cash flows at year four.
Explore annuities and perpetuities, compute present and future values with annuity factors, and compare lump-sum versus annuity options using discount rates.
Calculate the present value of a bond by discounting annual coupons and the face value at a 3% yield to maturity, illustrating profit and yield concepts.
Understand how duration and modified duration measure a bond's price response to yield changes. The modified duration equals duration divided by one plus yield, illustrated with a €1,000 bond example.
Use discounting techniques to calculate real investment returns after inflation. Learn stock price basics, including open, close, high, low, volume, and candlestick colors, and how volume signals trader activity.
Explore the risk and return connection through the capital asset pricing model, risk free and risky assets, beta, and the efficient frontier to understand returns versus risk.
Apply CAPM to compare asset returns using the SML. Use the formula R = RF + beta times (RM minus RF) to plot investments.
Learn how market multipliers assess stock attractiveness and distinguish undervalued from overvalued companies, using price to sales and industry comparisons.
Learn how options work alongside futures for hedging risks, including call and put rights to buy or sell assets at a strike price before expiration, plus intrinsic value, and premium.
Calculate the total return and risk for two portfolios, A and B, using two assets with weights and correlations; A yields 12.5% and 7.75% risk, B yields 14% and 10%.
This course will be useful for beginners as well as for people who have a fundamental knowledge in finance but want to expand their knowledge in investing.
This course will help you to get familiar with the most important aspects of investments. You will learn how to analyse various types of financial securities both from theoretical and practical points of view! Each topic is supported by the examples and detailed descriptions. The exercises will help you to solidify the information from each topic.
The course content includes information about:
- Stock markets
- Exchanges
- Types of financial securities
- Bonds
- Stocks
- Asset Pricing Models
- Market Multipliers
- Derivatives
- and more!
The graduated student will be able to:
- Learn the history of stock exchanges
- Make sufficient investment analysis
- Create his/her own investment portfolio
- Start investment journey on stock exchange
- Get along with different types of financial securities
There are three instructors, who rotate the topics of each week. Each instructor prepared those topics in which he/she is an expert! We believe that such diversification is not only sufficient from the studying point of view, but also engaging students.
We designed this course with passion and love. We wish students feel the advantages of this approach by themselves!