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Securing Investment Returns in the Long Run by Coursera
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
12 Topics
Why you should choose this course
Some common mistakes you will no longer make after this course - Performance
Some common mistakes you will no longer make after this course - Selling
What is useful to know before this course?
Some products you will master when you next meet your bank advisor - Mutual funds
Some products you will master when you next meet your bank advisor - Closed-end funds
Introduction to active versus passive management - Definitions
Introduction to active versus passive management - Passive
Introduction to active versus passive management - Active
Glossary
Graded quiz on the content of Week 1
Would you favor active over passive management?
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What you will learn in this Module
Choosing the right benchmark - UBS guest speaker
Shifting from relative to absolute return mandates
The Sharpe Treynor and Sortino ratios - Sharpe
The Sharpe Treynor and Sortino ratios - Treynor and Sortino
Tracking Error - UBS guest speaker
Using asset pricing models to estimate fund performance
Defining performance analysis - UBS guest speaker
Performance attribution - Introduction
Performance attribution - Example
Graded quiz on the content of Week 2
Would you rather opt for an absolute or a relative return mandate?
14 Topics
What you will learn in this module
Dimensions in ETF selection - UBS guest speaker
Beating the benchmark or the peer group? - Peer group analysis
Beating the benchmark or the peer group? - Screening criteria
The information ratio says it all
What are the pros and cons of a structured product?
Searching for hedge fund alpha: lessons from academia - Asset pricing model
Searching for hedge fund alpha: lessons from academia - Evidence
Do active funds really outperform passive funds? - Preliminaries
Do active funds really outperform passive funds? - Evidence
Active versus passive management - UNIGE & UBS Discussion - Part 1
Active versus passive management - UNIGE & UBS Discussion - Part 2
Graded quiz on the content of Week 3
What is your main takeaway from the active versus passive discussion?
14 Topics
What you will learn in this Module
Corporate sustainability and sustainable investing
Sustainable investing: exclusion impact investing & integration - UBS guest speaker
Does sustainable investing perform in line with traditional investing? - Theoretical arguments
Does sustainable investing perform in line with traditional investing? - Evidence
Climate change and capital markets - Introduction
Climate change and capital markets - Methodology
What is Neurofinance?
Understanding brain activity for better investment decisions
Can business analytics (Big Data) improve the value-added of TAA?
Using a Robo-advisor to better shape the SAA
Specialization Outro
Graded quiz on the content of Week 4
How important is sustainable investing to you?
Securing Investment Returns in the Long Run
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