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About the Course

We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable errors – predictable, that is, if we know what to watch out for. Did you know, for example, that we are naturally biased towards selling investments that are doing well for us, but holding on to those that are doing poorly? Or that we often select sub-optimal insurance payment plans, and routinely purchase insurance that we don’t even need? And why do so many of us fail to enroll in our employer’s corporate retirement plans, even when the employer offers to match our contributions? Behavioral finance is the study of these and dozens of other financial decision-making errors that can be avoided, if we are familiar with the biases that cause them. In this course, we examine these predictable errors, and discover where we are most susceptible to them. This course is intended to guide participants towards better financial choices. Learn how to improve your spending, saving, and investing decisions for the future....

Top reviews

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Need someone to respond if we have doubts

Include reading materials too for further reference

Too much of overlap between video and text content, Need to differentiate both

BP

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Interesting, but a little more support and practice could have been useful for a smoother transition to the quizzes. Otherwise it was a good course and I learnt some useful stuff from it.

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By Linards J

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Jul 1, 2018

A little too basic for my tastes. Was expecting more material.

By Venkey

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Jul 18, 2022

Thank you for this course. Test formats couldve been better.

By David S

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May 8, 2023

Very useful course. The final test is a little tricky though

By Facundo R R A

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Jul 24, 2022

Interesante curso para reforzar conocimientos sobre el tema

By Sanjay A

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Feb 20, 2022

Questions not very clear, difficult to understand the intent

By Murillo P

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Jan 16, 2018

Great content, good videos. Material could be better though.

By Prapti C

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May 31, 2020

The reading can be reduced and lecture time can be inceased

By Haibo H

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Dec 6, 2021

Overall good course, but quiz has no feedback after taking

By Girish S C

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Apr 23, 2020

More simple examples are required for easy understanding.

By Enkhlut C

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Nov 5, 2018

The lessons were not organized well. But well informative.

By Chandramohan I

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Apr 27, 2019

Well designed Course to understand the Behavioral Fiance.

By Jack P

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Nov 10, 2021

very difficult and appropriate for future business world

By Julián R

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Nov 30, 2017

Good points and real examples. Interesting and inspiring

By James E

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Apr 11, 2023

such an extensive program .I am so glad for the insight

By Marcelo G S

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Jun 27, 2023

Buen panorama. Falto profundizar en temas especificos

By Saurav B

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Dec 11, 2020

It was really helpful and instructors are do genuine.

By Ricardo C S

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Jun 15, 2020

It will be great to have an explanation of the test.

By Aditi S

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May 28, 2019

Detailed solutions to week 2 and week 3 are missing

By Madan A

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Jul 5, 2018

Excellent Course! Wish we could go in more depth!

By Diya S

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May 25, 2022

Great Course!, Well explained and easy to learn!

By TEDI V

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Jan 10, 2021

the questions was so hard compared to the course

By Jorge A M R

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Oct 14, 2019

Very interesting course, concepts and examples.

By JEAN F V

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Apr 10, 2021

key notions are given with very good examples

By Samardeep V

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Apr 22, 2020

Please include more biases and case studies.

By Edgar S

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Apr 13, 2020

It would be nice to have more video content.