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.
This course is part of the Investment and Portfolio Management Specialization
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- Behavioral Finance
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Efficient markets hypothesis and limits of arbitrage
Biases and realistic preferences
Inefficient markets
Applications: Investor behavior
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TOP REVIEWS FROM BIASES AND PORTFOLIO SELECTION
Well explained with lots of examples and research documents.
Excellent course material
Thoroughly enjoyed the course
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
The course content is awesome specially Dr. O.
I just dont like the peer reviews. It was long and some does not give fair grading.
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