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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Financial Markets by University of Geneva

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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 policies of central banks and their impact on financial markets will be presented to you along with the link between the economy and the price of financial assets. All along these different steps, experts from UBS, our corporate partner, will show you how the concepts you just acquired are effectively applied in a leading global bank. This focus on practicality means you will not only understand what is going on in global financial markets but also start to figure out how you can use them to achieve financial goals, be it a client's or your own. Course Director and main teaching contributor: Dr. Michel Girardin, Lecturer in Macro-Finance, University of Geneva...

Top reviews

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

RK

Oct 5, 2020

Thank you! Coursera for providing me the platform for boosting my knowledge in Financial Markets, as i have learned various financial parts in this subject and this will help me in my carrier too.

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By Vidal C

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Jan 25, 2021

I enjoyed that concepts were explained in a practical and entertaining matter, making it easier for me to understand the material. Quizzes also reinforced my memory.

By Rasmus N N

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Aug 25, 2020

Some of the teachers had an unbearable accent, ofc not her fault, but it actually made it harder to listen and learn for long periods of time. Great course overall!

By Tomas V

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May 1, 2022

User friendly and not to heavy on technical terms. Keep calm and keep investing in great companies! Always remember you not buying shares, you are buying business.

By Marcio W E

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Jun 30, 2020

Very good in order to build a basic foundation towards understanding financial markets and financial terms. Highly recommended to continue with the specialization.

By moazzamhussain

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Jun 7, 2017

You will be able to learn the basics of financial markets and how economic growth behaves with respect to different economic parameters.The course is worth taking!

By Jose M B G

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Jul 4, 2021

It is a great course, but I found some difficulties with the formulas we have learnt, maybe a deeper explanation would help people who are not familiar with them.

By Jiashun X

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Nov 20, 2019

Solid knowledge and provide essential fundamental elements for beginners, which is very helpful for anyone who does not possess a background in investment.

By Abiodun J o

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Oct 5, 2020

financial market play an importance role in economy development of a given country. typical role of central bank. Effect of inflation on equity and bods.

By Gael B

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Jul 30, 2024

This course is very good ! 4 stars because the course dates from 2016 and is therefore not up to date with recent crises (covid, inflation, etc.)

By Salvador R M

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Sep 1, 2020

The lessons are well taught, the information is clearly provided and the difficulty of the quizzes are according with the material of the course.

By Eman D

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Aug 20, 2020

I would like to thank all the professors who contributed in this course and specially Dr. Michel for a very easy and interactive way of learning.

By Natalia P

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Jun 1, 2020

Great course, but when professor were mentioning some graph/chart information "The chart on the left, or on your right" it was confuse to follow.

By Harsh G

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Dec 9, 2019

Amazing course. I had no financial background and had come to this course with just curiosity, but now I am leaving with good financial knowledge

By Shimin L

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Oct 1, 2020

Some of the heavier math needed more clarification. It sometimes felt like it was just randomly thrown out without much context or explanation.

By Rafael C

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Apr 19, 2020

I think that there are some concepts that could have been better explained in a simpler way, besides that I learned a lot through this course.

By Antariksh A

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Jul 3, 2017

Professors teach nicely and made every point very clear. Course outline will really help if one is studying to be in investment management .

By Tushar s

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Sep 27, 2020

It is really a good course but it was a bit hard to understand the bonds part, we have very high hopes from Michelle(Thank you so much sir).

By DAKSH M

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Jun 13, 2020

An all round perspective of the market along with technical knowledge. This course is simply amazing.

Would like to recommend to everyone.

By Goh W K

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Sep 8, 2020

Very informative and good basics for a beginner but the calculations, formulas and graphs can be a quite overwhelming and intimidating.

By Chris C

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Apr 22, 2018

This was a great introduction into financial markets and monetary policy. It was exactly as advertised, and am happy with my selection

By Mark K

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Apr 8, 2018

Good fundamentals. Yield curve discussion in lecture 4 was complicated. Introduction to '4 Pillars of Investing by Bernstein' very good

By Friedrich R

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Feb 12, 2021

The material is great to learn, however, it can all just be a little too much sometimes given all the different formulas and concepts.

By Joren K

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Apr 7, 2020

Good, basic introduction to financial markets. Good use of real life data and in general, the different concepts are well explained.

By Edgar B

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Jun 5, 2016

The evaluation is very confusing. In addition, when graded, it gives different "correct" answers overtime the test is presented.

By ananya h

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May 13, 2019

Highly recommend this course, but would be better if the course was updated, all the scenarios depicted in this are from 2005