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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

In this course, we will discuss fundamental principles of trading off risk and return, portfolio optimization, and security pricing. We will study and
use risk-return models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and multi-factor models to evaluate the performance of various
securities and portfolios. Specifically, we will learn how to interpret and estimate regressions that provide us with both a benchmark to use for a
security given its risk (determined by its beta), as well as a risk-adjusted measure of the security’s performance (measured by its alpha).
Building upon this framework, market efficiency and its implications for patterns in stock returns and the asset-management ...
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Top reviews

DH

Nov 11, 2016

This was a fantastic course, with a realistically attainable amount of material, and a humble, knowledgable professor whose teaching style makes a normally difficult topic very easy to understand.

KL

Dec 6, 2017

Professor Weisbenner is fabulous! He is able to make anyone understand complex investment topics through his delivery and curriculum design. You are missing out not taking Investments from him!

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By Manohar A

Dec 2, 2018

I did not like the course. I am a visual learner and learn by reading and seeing. Most of the times important material (like formula, conclusions etc.) were left out from the course material. Formulas are given without explanations of individual components. It means that you have to go back to lectures and listen really hard to understand. Maybe the teachers should have given a text book instead.

I don't understand the concept of peer graded assignments - seems to me an absolute waste of everyones time

By Victoria F

Nov 16, 2020

Will never use this information again, wish it was created so that no matter your background and job it would help you understand the market. The use of excel to calculate numbers I will never be able to find on a company does not help my career in anyway.

By Jason D

Feb 5, 2019

Instructor know's his stuff, but there are sooooo many "ahh" and "umm". It is impossible to follow. I expect better from U of I. Really ashamed. I counted it up and on average in one video he says it about every 10-12 seconds.

By S N

Jul 21, 2020

Poorly taught and overcomplicated, I have been in finance for 6 years and this stuff is much more simple in real life. If you just want to stick to academia, this is a perfect course.

By Tarek B

Jul 30, 2017

Professor goes off-topic very often and is not concise. Poor quality in general.

By Natalie C

Oct 30, 2018

This course is a shameful mess.

By Reynaldo R R

Nov 4, 2021

Too much info for each week