Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice
This course explored the key theories relating to investment management and how these are reflected in actual investment practice.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the different types of personal investments and the returns they offer
- Identify investment management practices
- Identify and to understand the impact of behavioural factors on investment decision-making
- Identify and to understand the key investment management theories
- Explore and review recent investment management stories
Syllabus
- 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
Issued on 2nd December 2018
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