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About the Course

In this course, you will learn what the main financial markets and their characteristics are as well as how they are linked to the economy. Our
very diversified team of experts will start by teaching you how the price of stocks and bonds are computed and why they move while you will
become increasingly aware of the notion of risk and why it matters when measuring an investment's performance. The focus will then move to
less popular markets such as gold, emerging markets, real estate, hedge funds and private markets. These will be analyzed with an emphasis
on their particular risks and return opportunities as well as how they can help in building efficient portfolios. Finally, the policie...
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Top reviews

ZK

Jul 3, 2017

This course is brilliant- I enjoyed learning new information about the financial market and the instructors made it easy to grasp the information by using easy to understand examples.Many thanks,Zineb

MC

Jul 16, 2017

Mr. Michel is really an amazing teacher! His lectures are vivic and greatly attracts my attention. I hope to take more of his classes because I've Learned more than I nomally can do in a short class

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By Niklas B

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Nov 30, 2016

Great course for someone who does not know anything or very little about the financial markets.

By Yevheniia I

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May 28, 2021

I learned a lot from this course. Also really enjoyed it. Great curriculum short and on point!

By Rodrigo T V C

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Nov 3, 2019

Interesting introduction to financial markets with simple and easy to understand explanations.

By Ramírez M A A

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Aug 7, 2019

Excellent course!

This course shows you many fundamental things about financial markets easily

By Juan J B

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Feb 2, 2018

It is an excellent course, very easy to understand and the professor Michel Girardin is great.

By Jonathan S

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Aug 15, 2021

I believe is a really useful course for understanding the principals of the financial markets

By HARSH A

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Jun 8, 2020

The course was really helpful in understanding concepts of market especially the hedge funds.

By Aryaman S

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May 20, 2020

Great Course, especially from a macroeconomics perspective. Thank you, Michel and the staff!

By Lionel H

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Aug 1, 2019

Great introduction to asset classes, their strengths and weaknesses and what influences them

By Carlos A J M L

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Feb 29, 2020

Excellent introduction to financial markets. Great lectures with very knowleagable experts.

By Venkatesh N

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Feb 20, 2016

Great lectures,

Great Lecturers,

Great Guest Talks,

Great way to start with the ABC of markets

By Rushikesh M

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Feb 22, 2022

Thank you all profeser Thank you University of Geneva and Coursera and also thank you UBS

By Henri V

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Aug 13, 2020

Very good why of explaining. Not to technical but good way to understand the big picture.

By S S S

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Jul 11, 2020

It's a good course for beginners, and the teaching methods are one of the best I've seen.

By Ashim C

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Jul 3, 2020

wonderful teaching style by experienced professors and experts from financial profession.

By Adi A

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Feb 16, 2019

The content of the course is constructed with much details and the plataform is so great!

By Stefania K

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Aug 23, 2020

Very satisfied on the whole with content, presentation, structure and time distribution.

By Raju N

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Jun 23, 2020

This is very useful course in financial markets. The team efforts are highly appreciate.

By Orlando M

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Jun 13, 2016

Very well structured and the professor are very goo at explaining each and every concept

By Alejandro I

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May 9, 2016

Amazing course and the information & knowledge about Financial Markets is really great!!

By allan m

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Oct 22, 2022

A nice course to take when you want to start your career in the field of investments.

By Todd F

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Feb 15, 2021

Very nice understanding of financial markets for beginners. It is challenging as well.

By Roberto P

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Dec 2, 2020

Very good course, maybe not suited for beginners. Professor Michel Girardin is stunning

By sebastian a

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Oct 4, 2020

excellent, the concepts are explained in an extremely valuable way for use in practice.

By Harshad F

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Aug 28, 2020

Nice course. Professor Girardian explains difficult concepts in a very simple manner...