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Overview
Key features
Put your investment and portfolio management knowledge to the test through five weeks of handson investment experiences:
- Developing and managing your own simulated investment portfolio, resulting in a peergraded report covering portfolio strategy, analysis, and performance
- Advising case study clients on a variety of investment topics, essentially acting as an investment advisor in a simulated environment recommending strategies for and changes in portfolios based on challenges and issues faced by your clients
- Using the sophisticated webbased analytical tools of Silicon Cloud Technologies LLC’s Portfolio Visualizer including portfolio mean variance optimization, historical and forecasted efficient frontiers, FamaFrench factor models, and many more
Your capstone experiences are directly applicable to managing real world investment portfolios and the final report can be shared with family, friends, and potential or current employers.
By the end of the Capstone - Build a Winning Investment Portfolio course offered by Coursera in partnership with Rice University, you will have incorporated concepts from all four courses, including:
- Analyzing multiple asset classes
- Asset allocation and risk management
- Current market trends
- Behavioral finance
- Investment styles and strategies
- Financial market innovation
- Investment performance evaluation
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Visit programme websiteProgramme Structure
Course structure:
- Using Portfolio Visualizer – Historical Efficient Frontier
- Using Portfolio Visualizer – Mean Variance Optimization
- Overview of the Simulated Investment Management System (SIMS)
- Sim Portfolio Objectives, Activities, and Grading
- Listing of Biases/Brief Definitions
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Investment View 28 other Short Courses in Investment in United StatesExplore more key information
Visit programme websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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International
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FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 USD for the full programme during 1 days.
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Funding
Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project.
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