Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Financial Markets by University of Geneva
About the Course
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...
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 Michelle M
•Jun 18, 2017
Very helpful in understanding markets. more examples of the mathematics would have been helpful in solidifying the concepts.
By Trevor S
•Oct 21, 2018
A well thought out course. Usually clear and informative. There was the odd glitch of some reading material links failing.
By Bernard K
•Jun 20, 2021
Truly the course is a mind opener to the financial markets. All the lecturers were profound with their presentations.
By Alec S
•May 27, 2021
Prepare for some tricky worded quiz questions! Michele is great but Im not a huge fan of the other instructors so far
By Nikita P
•Sep 30, 2017
Quite a good course to get an overview of investment. Nothing extraordinary, but still very informative and useful.
By Dmitry N
•Mar 20, 2019
quite hard to gasp the content. maybe it's just me, but more formal math would significantly simplfy the material.
By Santiago M G
•Feb 28, 2016
It lacks exercises but other than that this course is pretty fun and interesting. I would definitely recommend it.
By Jason T
•Jun 3, 2016
Good course but overpriced in comparison to other offerings on Coursera which are more comprehensive and cheaper.
By Sunil S
•Nov 20, 2016
Michel was the best among the others when it came to making me understand and grasp the subjects being taught!!
By Shankaranand M
•Feb 25, 2016
Well structured course. The graphs used to highlight the key relationships of various variables is insightful.
By Eden P
•Sep 19, 2017
Very insightful and easy to follow. Nice introduction to financial markets for the non-financially qualified.
By NANDINI B
•Sep 4, 2020
It would be better if there were some practice questions before the test. Otherwise the course was perfect.
By Diksha P
•Apr 20, 2020
This course is really beneficial for me . It had provided me the basic knowledge about financial markets.
By Irene S
•Nov 30, 2016
First time for me to study MOOC. I learned a lot but there are still concepts I have a hard time grasping.
By Georg K
•Dec 22, 2020
Pretty good videos with very illustrative examples. The Level of some of the readings was a bit too high.
By Abhishek S
•Aug 25, 2016
Superb.. This is a perfect course to start with investment management and also a review to the graduates.
By Walter V
•Aug 15, 2022
I learnt a lof of things regarding financial markets!
I really liked and enjoyed the course.
Thanks!
By Deleted A
•Aug 2, 2021
A good overview of financial markets, however may have been slightly too technical in some parts.
By Prokopis G
•Jun 13, 2020
Interesting course for someone who wants to understand the fundamentals of the financial markets
By Varun R
•Oct 17, 2020
amazing course, i recommend this to everyone who is clueless about financial market investments
By Zee M
•Jun 3, 2017
Great Course. I grabbed most of the concepts even though i am not from a financial background.
By Moonsun Y
•May 9, 2020
The contents of lecture was great. But it would be great if we can download lecture notes.
By Sumeet K
•May 31, 2020
it was an amazing journey. it helped in refreshing my financial markets concepts in depth.
By Javier T
•Apr 24, 2020
Very interesting course, very good concepts to think about and great teachers. Thank you
By Syed F A
•Nov 12, 2023
Very special course to me...it increases my knowledge about financial markets... thanks