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Understanding Financial Markets

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University of Geneva

Understanding Financial Markets

2183 classificações

Curso 1 de 5 em Specialization Investment Management

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

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General Introduction and Key Concepts

Why a specialization on Investment Management? - UBS guest lecturer1:36

A word of welcome - OPTIONAL2:18

Introducing your GFRI team of instructors - OPTIONAL8:06

Investment management can be fun - OPTIONAL4:31

Some common mistakes you will no longer make after this course - Part 110:36

Some common mistakes you will no longer make after this course - Part 26:40

Investment Management in a nutshell - Part 18:50

Investment Management in a nutshell - Part 210:37

Conheça os instrutores

University of Geneva- Ines Chaieb
SFI Associate Professor of Finance
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Jonas Demaurex
Teaching Assistant
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Rajna Gibson Brandon
SFI Senior Chaired Professor of Finance and Managing Director of the GFRI
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Michel Girardin
Lecturer in Macro-Finance - Project Leader for the "Investment Management" specialization
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Martin Hoesli
Professor of Real estate investments
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Olivier Scaillet
SFI Senior Chaired Professor of Finance and Vice-dean (research) at GSEM
Geneva Finance Research Institute
University of Geneva- Philip Valta
SFI Assistant Professor of Finance
Geneva Finance Research Institute
Dirk Effenberger
UBS Guest Lecturer, Head CIO Cross-Regional Investment Office
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management
Mark Haefele
UBS Guest Lecturer, Global Chief Investment Officer
Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas
Brian Nick
UBS Guest Lecturer, Strategist
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management Americas
Mike Ryan
UBS Guest Lecturer, Chief Investment Strategist
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management Americas
Simon Smiles
UBS Guest Lecturer, Chief Investment Officer UHNW
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management
Themis Themistocleous
UBS Guest Lecturer, Head European Investment Office
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management
Thomas Wacker
UBS Guest Lecturer, Head CIO Credit
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management
Chris Wright
UBS Guest Lecturer, Cross-Asset Strategist
Chief Investment Office, UBS Wealth Management
University of Geneva- Tony Berrada
SFI Associate Professor of Finance
Geneva Finance Research Institute

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So welcome to this online specialization in investment management that we have

designed for you.

I would like, as the director of the Geneva Finance Research Institute,

to tell you What GFRI stands for, who we are,

what we do and what makes our team a little bit special for this course.

So, the GFRI is an interdisciplinary research institute

located at the University of Geneva.

We're based at the interface of three faculties, the Geneva School of

Economics and Management, the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Psychology.

And we specialize in two areas, the first one being portfolio management,

due to the private banking expertise in Geneva.

The second one being finance and

society due to all the lessons learned after the subprime crisis,

and whether we can answer if finance adds value to society.

So let me perhaps tell your or convince you why your faculty is a bit special.

First of all, the breadth and diversity of its knowledge

in very complimentary fields or sub-fields in finance.

Secondly, we have many faculty members that specialize in novel areas such

as sustainable finance, such as experimental finance or Nero finance.

We also publish in top eight rated publication in finance and

we try to compete at the international level in terms of publications but

we also have a practical side.

We interact with the industries through workshops, seminars, conferences,

and some of us have experiences with regulatory bodies.

Finally, a diverse city is the key.

We are diverse in terms of our educational backgrounds,

our cultural backgrounds, in terms of gender, nationalities.

And I hope this melting pot works together to deliver a good course for you.

So let me present the team.

The team is nine professor and one project coordinator.

Let me start with Tony Barada.

Tony Barada is a Specialist in theoretical asset pricing.

He can derive very complicated mathematical formulas.

But at the same time, he has a great sense of intuition and

he can convince you and he can convince me that we understand finance and

that we're finance specialists.

Inesh Sayev, she's our International Finance Specialist.

She Deals with international asset pricing and tells you whether you should

invest abroad in China, Mexico, Brazil or whether this is just a fad.

Michelle [FOREIGN] he is the project leader for

this MOOC that we have developed for you, he is a banker,

he has 20 years of experience, he's also a macro economist and

in this perspective he can tell you whether Mrs. Yellen is going to

raise the interest in future, whether you can make money out of it.

But of course, as every macroeconomist,

you should attach attach a certain probability to his forecast.

Now let me turn to.

Is a real estate specialist.

He can tell you perhaps or

forecast the next housing bubble in Switzerland or perhaps in China and

you should listen to his advice if you're a house or a home owner.

Philip Kruger,

he He's specializing in one of our novel areas which is sustainable finance.

And he really can disentangle the real value added for

long term investors of sustainable investment criteria from this simply

being a marketing tool for investors that banks may want to use.

And Kerstin Preuschoff who's an associate professor in neurofinance

in our institute she does something very interesting.

She would put traders, students, or

CEOs in an MRI and would see whether when you make financial

decisions there's the risk return patterns that activate in your brain regions and

whether you think like Markowitz thinks about portfolio selection.

My colleague Olivier Scallier is a financial econometrician.

He's also a theorist, but he can also handle very practical problems and one

that he's very keen on is to say whether an active monitor is relying on luck or

whether he's really delivering genuine true performance with his skills.

Philip Valta, he's our corporate finance specialist.

And he can tell you whether corporate decision making can enhance or

destroy value for the shareholders and for yourself.

Jonas Demaurier, he's our project coordinator.

He recently graduated from our

wealth management master program at the University of Geneva.

He's very interested in portfolio management and

he's the one who keeps us organized, focused, and makes this whole package

work together efficiently and hopefully for the benefit of all you participants.

Myself, I don't want to say too much.

I'm interested in experimental finance, asset pricing and corporate governance.

Recently, I've been doing research on whether, and how,

people trade honesty for a higher compensation or benefits.

So for instance, if a CEO cheats, he can have a higher salary.

He knows that.

Will he cheat?

As Mark Twain said, honesty is the best policy when there's money in it.

But I also know that as humans, we are all prone to temptations.

So that's the team and as you can see some of our members

have an SFI allocation next to their affiliation.

SFI stand for the Swiss Finance Institute which is a public private

partnership that has been founded a few years ago by the Swiss banks.

And which works in close cooperation with six universities and

the Geneva University.

The Swiss Finance Institute specializes in research, doctoral education,

knowledge transfer activities in finance, and its research is really cutting edge.

We are first in Europe and fifth in terms of ranking in terms of

our publications international finance journals.

So SFI given that it has a strong priority on investment

management very much welcomes the participation of its GFRI faculty

within this online investment management course.

So, a final word, we at GFRI very much hope that by enrolling and

keeping focused in this online course in investment management

you will be able to grasp some of the cutting edge research in

finance that is useful for making investment decisions on the one side.

That you will be able to learn applied concepts.

Whether investment management is an art or

a science, I would say it's a combination of both.

I think what's important is that when you get out of this course,

that you have completed it successfully.

You have the tool kit that allows you to stay confident and

serene in your investment decision despite market turmoils and

crisis that will be always around in the future.

So stay cool, enjoy the show, and

I hope you enjoy following this online investment management course.

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