Investments
Finance
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Lincoln University
Grow your knowledge and skills in investment analysis, securities markets, portfolio theory, and financial market efficiency.
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Understand securities and markets
Describe the basic types of securities and financial markets as well as how trading in those markets is conducted.
Explain financial theories
Explain efficient diversification, market efficiency, and behavioural finance theories.
Apply risk, return, and valuation techniques
Describe measures of risk and return, capital market models, and securities valuation techniques and perform related calculations and investment analyses.
What You're Signing Up For
The Investments course at Lincoln University develops your knowledge and practical skills in efficient market hypotheses, asset pricing models, portfolio theory, stocks, bonds, and derivatives. You'll learn to describe financial instruments and markets, perform investment analyses, understand diversification and financial theories, and successfully complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) e-learning course.
Course Content
- Efficient market hypotheses
- Asset pricing models
- Portfolio theory
- Stocks, bonds, and derivatives
- Securities and financial markets
- Trading in financial markets
- Efficient diversification
- Market efficiency and behavioural finance theories
- Measures of risk and return
- Capital market models
- Securities valuation techniques
- Financial calculations for investment analysis
- Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) e-learning course
What you need to know first
Pre-requisite: Finance Fundamentals (FINC-101) or Financial Management (FINC-204)
A minimum of 15 credit points from: Introductory Statistics (COMM-111), Biometrics (QMET-201), or Analytics and Statistics for Business (QMET-204)
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Banking
Finance
Investments
Future employment opportunities might be
Investment analyst
Financial advisor
Portfolio manager
Securities trader
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