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Week 2: Closing thoughts

This video wraps up Week 2 of the course, and highlights some of the concepts and topics to be covered in the next week, including derivatives.

In this short video, Pasquale Scaramozzino summarises the topics covered in Week 2.

Among other topics, he outlines how by constructing balanced and well-diversified portfolios we can significantly reduce the variability in the returns on our investment, without necessarily sacrificing our expected return.

He also introduces some of the concepts to be covered in Week 3, including financial derivatives.

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Risk Management in the Global Economy

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