Investments I - Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation Coursera

Overview

The over-arching goals of this Investments I - Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Illinois are to build an understanding of the fundamentals of investment finance and provide an ability to implement key asset-pricing models and firm-valuation techniques in real-world situations. 

You will be able to:

• Explain the tradeoffs between risk and return

• Form a portfolio of securities and calculate the expected return and standard deviation of that portfolio

• Understand the real-world implications of the Separation Theorem of investments

• Use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and 3-Factor Model to evaluate the performance of an asset (like stocks) through regression analysis

• Estimate and interpret the ALPHA (α) and BETA (β) of a security, two statistics commonly reported on financial websites

• Describe what is meant by market efficiency and what it implies for patterns in stock returns and for the asset-management industry

• Understand market multiples and income approaches to valuing a firm and its stock, as well as the sensitivity of each approach to assumptions made

• Conduct specific examples of a market multiples valuation and a discounted cash flow valuation

Skills you'll gain

• Finance

• Investment Management

• Leadership and Management

• Risk Management

• Strategy