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Certificate of Achievement
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This online course explored different investment choices, their associated returns and risks, and evidence about their historical performance.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess and to understand the range of investments available to the public and the factors that determine the returns they provide.
- Calculate to understand pension products and how to plan for income in retirement.
- Engage to understand key investment theories and their linkage to investment practice.
- Demonstrate to understand to how evaluate investment performance.
- Assess to understand financial risks.
- Explore how behavioural factors (or biases) can affect investment behaviour.
Syllabus
- Week 1: Why and how should we invest for the future?
- Week 2: The spectrum of personal investments
- Week 3: Devising investment strategies – principles and practice
- Week 4: Investment in practice: practices, styles, history and performance
- Week 5: Investing for retirement: planning your pension
- Week 6: Investment and human behaviour
Issued on 26th October 2017
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