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About the Course

Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the various behavioral biases – mistakes that investors make and understand their reasons. You will learn how to recognize your own mistakes as well as others’ and understand how these mistakes can affect investment decisions and financial markets. You will also explore how different preferences and investment horizons impact the optimal asset allocation choice. After this course, you will be more effective in overcoming biases to do the wrong things at the wrong times and tailoring an investment strategy that is best suited on your or your client’s profile and investment needs....

Top reviews

AA

Jul 1, 2020

For me, it is an excellent course. Understanding some concepts of biases and behavior when making portfolio decisions is a good addition to knowledge when making investment decisions.

Tks Dr. O

AS

Sep 25, 2019

An excellent course combining psychology and behavioral biases with finance. An eye-opener for students and managers relying exclusively on quantitative techniques to solve finance problems.

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By ROHIT P

Jun 6, 2020

NIL

By Andrzej D

Oct 20, 2017

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By Ronald G

Feb 27, 2023

The information presented was excellent and I learned a lot. However, I had to go outside of the class to do it. If a mathematical technique is going to be used to develop a concept, especially in a remote learning environment, than the technique should be part of the program.

The course also has links that no longer work, errors in some of the videos that aren't corrected. Some of it is unprofessional. If the class is still being offered and they know about the errors, fix them or stop offering the class.

By Santiago R R

Oct 18, 2020

Good course, a bit lacking in the quiz department, and it is always harder to pass the course when more peer-reviews are involved, as it takes quite a while to get your revisions in. Nevertheless, great and interesting content.

By Veliko D

May 16, 2017

A bit too easy in comparison to the previous module. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is perfectly explained as well as many other things. I think more practical manipulations with data would have been useful.

By Debbie G

Feb 11, 2017

Extremely interesting but could be more detailed showing more specific data and examples with downloadable spreadsheets.

By AP

Dec 27, 2019

This module was interesting and I liked the questions that gave a possibility to check our knowledge.

By Roger D

Dec 6, 2018

I've tried a few courses that are similar and this one is better than average.

By Ajay D

Apr 13, 2021

It really was a good course, which helped me clear a lot of my doubts!

By Isaiah M

Jun 5, 2022

4

By Travis P

Jun 6, 2018

The course is good but the lack of response from ANY teachers/assistants is frustrating. It is also very frustrating waiting WEEKS for anyone to respond on your peer-reviewed work. By the time I get feedback, I am already completing the next course in the specialization and the feedback is barely valuable anymore as I have had to figure it out myself. (Still waiting on feedback on for assignments in course 3 of 5 and I am beginning work on the capstone project.)

By chris r

Apr 14, 2019

A little light on content, but lots of great examples and case studies.