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Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice 

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Overview

Look at the investment choices open to you, and the risks and returns of each. Start managing your financial future effectively

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

Accounts Manager Commercial Banking, Senior Manager - Operations (F & A) , Asset Allocation, Team Head-Finance & Margin Management , Business Development

Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Access to this course for 6 weeks
  • Offered by The Open University
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Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice
 at 
FutureLearn 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Explore the different types of personal investments and the returns they offer
  • Identify and to understand the key investment management theories
  • Identify investment management practices
  • Explore and review recent investment management stories
  • Identify and to understand the impact of behavioural factors on investment decision-making
More about this course
  • Research shows that UK households are poor at investment management, with a limited understanding of choices, risks and returns. This could mean that many people cannot afford to retire in future.This online course will give you the tools to avoid this nightmare. You will study investment choices, and the risks and returns of each; investment strategies and your risk-return appetite; and behaviours that can impair effective investment decisions.

Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

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

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