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About the Course

The practice of investment management has been transformed in recent years by computational methods. This course provides an introduction to the underlying science, with the aim of giving you a thorough understanding of that scientific basis. However, instead of merely explaining the science, we help you build on that foundation in a practical manner, with an emphasis on the hands-on implementation of those ideas in the Python programming language. This course is the first in a four course specialization in Data Science and Machine Learning in Asset Management but can be taken independently. In this course, we cover the basics of Investment Science, and we'll build practical implementations of each of the concepts along the way. We'll start with the very basics of risk and return and quickly progress to cover a range of topics including several Nobel Prize winning concepts. We'll cover some of the most popular practical techniques in modern, state of the art investment management and portfolio construction. As we cover the theory and math in lecture videos, we'll also implement the concepts in Python, and you'll be able to code along with us so that you have a deep and practical understanding of how those methods work. By the time you are done, not only will you have a foundational understanding of modern computational methods in investment management, you'll have practical mastery in the implementation of those methods....

Top reviews

MA

Nov 29, 2020

Awesome Course, Great instructors that give a nice balance of theory and practice, the practice is very hands-on and will help you understand the theory and give you useful tools from the first week.

SW

Aug 5, 2020

I am self taught in Python and have an industry background in Finance. This course was a good connector/provided additional insight on using Python to process portfolio performance and data analysis.

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By Sean S

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Jan 28, 2021

I found this course to be a great mix of programming and investment management principles. Both instructors did a good job of making the subject matter accessible.

By Miguel A L C

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Aug 7, 2020

Great course. Professors explain very good. You will learn new things about python coding and definetly about basic portfolio construction and how to enhace it.

By Hector B

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Feb 2, 2021

Really challenging and informative course. Assignments are a little bit frustrating and time-consuming offering a lot of learning opportunities.

By Liang Y

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Nov 19, 2022

There is some outdated information in the code part, so the programming may have some errors occurred, but the remaining is informative.

By ray f

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Aug 22, 2024

The theory lectures are a little thin. The python labs are very good. Learning would benefit from some exercises following the labs.

By Tiantang S

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Jul 22, 2023

Practical labs are very good though sometimes it rushes a bit.

Lectures can have a bit more details.

Overall it's a good course.

By Hardik P

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May 3, 2020

This course is not at all an Introductory course. It is quite advanced and requires a decent level of commitment to keep up

By Ng

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Feb 8, 2020

A bit quick in the later part, but overall gives me the knowledge of finance theory and hand-on experience in coding.

By Nisanth S

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May 25, 2020

A very beginner friendly course with more a lot of focus on financial concepts and how to execute them using Python

By Minshen C

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Dec 3, 2019

it would be great if this course could be splitted to 6 or 7 weeks; the session of each week is too long now

By FRANÇOIS L

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May 19, 2020

Very interesting course on portfolio construction with enthusiastic and passion-driven teachers.

By Alejandro C

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Aug 19, 2020

Really great teacher and extremely clear. Wish there was more emphasis in learning of python.

By Johan G B

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Aug 30, 2020

awesome course! The labs are really good. Maybe the lectures should be improved.

By Igor R

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Nov 20, 2020

Very informative, though a bit of a mismatch between labs and lectures.

By adrian c

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Oct 31, 2023

Excellent content ... the dates assigned for completion are short

By Loi H H

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Jul 25, 2022

Great Course, learnt a lot about Portfolio Construction.

By Cheikh A C A

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Apr 30, 2021

Very interessting course with examples of real world

By Deep S

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Feb 11, 2021

The lab guy is awesome in his ability to teach

By GreenTea S

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May 19, 2020

I found hands-on session to be quite useful.

By Haiqing W

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Jul 22, 2020

Great course, learnt a lot.

By kelvin a

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Mar 20, 2022

Vijay is the GOAT

By BOB G

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Dec 31, 2021

mistakes in codes

By Kristian V

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Feb 13, 2021

Very informative

By Brigitte

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Nov 13, 2022

A bit disorganised to be honest. In the Python introductory section there are missing lessons and it's just not enough to provide a link to external YouTube videos of 2-3 hours with a low video quality where the lecturer writes on a board that can be barely read. Also, there are readings that refer to broken links.

By matteo b

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Mar 18, 2021

I think there should be a bit more of Theory