Duration: 3 weeks
Weekly study: 4 hours
Product Description
Finance Fundamentals: Investment Theory and Practice
$74.00
In this online course from The Open University you will learn about:
- Investment planning and decision making
- Investment theories
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Description
This course is part of the Business and Finance Fundamentals and Finance Fundamentals programs, which will enable you to master this subject in depth.
Ensure your investments are effective as well as match your risk-return appetite
Research shows that UK households are poor at investment management, with a limited understanding of choices, risks as well as 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, as well as the risks and returns of each; investment strategies as well as your risk-return appetite; and behaviours that can impair effective investment decisions.
The Open University’s Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance created this course, with the generous support of True Potential LLP.
What topics will you cover?
Investment planning as well as decision-making.
Savings as well as investment products.
Investment risks.
Also investment theories – diversification, portfolio theory, capital-asset pricing model.
As well as investment theories – efficient market hypothesis, random walk theory, chartism.
Investment in practice – methods employed by fund managers.
Historical analysis of investment returns.
And historical investment episodes as well as what we learn from them.
Individual human behavioural biases as well as investment decision-making.
Group human behavioural biases as well as investment decision-making.
Academic credit
If you are aiming to use your study of courses in the Business and Finance Fundamentals program to obtain academic credit, please be aware that the final planned presentation of the Open University Assessment Course BXM191 Business and Finance Fundamentals in Practice starts October 2020. Please ensure that you allow yourself enough time to obtain all eight Certificates of Achievement from courses in the program before registering for the Assessment Course.
Who is this accredited by?
EOCCS: This course is accredited by EOCCS, the first international quality benchmark for online courses in business and management education.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Explore the different types of personal investments and the returns they offer.
- As well as identify investment management practices.
- Identify as well as understand the impact of behavioural factors on investment decision-making.
- Also identify as well as understand the key investment management theories.
- And explore as well as review recent investment management stories.
Who is the course for?
For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management, visit the Open University website.
What do people say about this course?
“For me, this short course threw a little more light on several dark corners of investing. Thank you for your efforts in that enterprise.”
K. Crilley
Who will you learn with?
Martin Upton
Martin is the Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously, he was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.
Who developed the course?
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning, with a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas.
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