Securities Investment is a course that aims to conduct in-depth research on the operating rules of the securities market, securities valuation methods and investment strategies. It helps students master how to effectively carry out asset allocation and risk management to achieve personal or institutional investment goals through the combination of theory and practice.
Overview
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Syllabus
- The Investment Environment
- 1.1 Real assets VS Financial assets
- 1.2 Financial Assets
- 1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy
- 1.4 The Investment Process
- 1.5 Markets Are Competitive
- 1.6 The Players
- Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
- 2.1 The Money Market
- 2.2 The Bond Market
- 2.3 Equity Securities
- 2.4 Stock and Bond Market Indexes
- 2.5 Derivative Markets
- The lssuance and Trading of Securities
- 3.1 How Firms Issue Securities
- 3.2 How securities Are Traded
- Capital allocation risk management
- 4.1 Comparison of yields over different maturities
- 4.2 Risk and risk premium
- 4.3 Risk and risk aversion
- 4.4 Capital allocation of risky assets versus risk-free assets
- Optimal Risky Portfolios
- 5.1 Diversification and Portfolio Risk
- 5.2 Portfolios of Two Risky Assets
- Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
- 6.1 Investment Companies
- 6.2 Types of Investment Companies
- 6.3 Mutual Funds
- Bond Prices and Yields
- 7.1 Bond Prices and Yields
- 7.2 Bond pricing
- Equity Valuation models
- 8.1 Valuation by Comparables
- 8.2 Intrinsic Value versus Market Price
- 8.3 Dividend Discount Models
- final
Taught by
Li Qian, Luo Dancheng, Zhang Fan, Xu Liangchao, and Song Liancheng