In this course, you will learn about latest investment strategies and performance evaluation. You will start by learning portfolio performance measures and discuss best practices in portfolio performance evaluation. You will explore different evaluation techniques such as style analysis and attribution analysis and apply them to evaluate different investment strategies. Special emphasis will be given to recent financial market innovations and current investment trends. After this course, learners will be able to: • Describe performance measurement measures • Evaluate portfolio performance • Describe and contrast different investment strategies • Propose investment strategy solutions
KT
Quizzes and assignments have some errors. The forum response is slow, but the lectures are superb. I learned a lot!
SS
Excellent Primer course for someone already working in Financial domain
RD
I've tried a few courses that are similar and this one is better than average.
VF
I think that this particular course could have a bit deeper dive into the topic, felt more like a general overview compared to previous courses in the specialization.
DG
Best course. I was able to apply what I learned to my job. My office loved the ideas I brought to the table from this course.
MM
Very practical course. Highly recommended for someone pursuing a asset management role.
BC
A really good course that I would certainly recommend. The only thing that let it down was that some of the solutions to the final quiz were incorrect and led to some frustration on the forum!
RK
It was great learning from a reputed university. I learnt a lot of things but the practical assignment were awesome and very helpful.
LM
Very informative and enlightening. Learnt quite a lot.
MP
Overall the course is good, but the course lacks teaching of practical questions and on how to solve the statistical problems in MS Excel.
GI
outstanding, and includes a few Excel exercise as well which I have found very useful
HR
Thank you so much for putting this course togeteher online!
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All the previous specializations were amazingly informative and practical. This one however lacks the pre-knowledge required and seems somewhat trivial to the whole course.
Interesting course material, but there were way too many mistakes in the exercise files. I felt we reached a low point when the only way to pass the assignments was to figure out what the instructor did wrong in the assignments, recreate those problems in my files, and then answer the questions "correctly" with the incorrect data. Really bad.
Very practical course. Highly recommended for someone pursuing a asset management role.
Too many errors in answer keys, and no real support to speak of. Disappointing.
I'm rating this course as a 1 star not because this course is bad, uninformative or unhelpful. This course is actually good, yet I agree with some of other reviewers that previous courses of this specialization were better. With that in mind I would give it 3-4 stars. Nonetheless I am giving this rating because of many errors, typos and staff, that hasn't corrected any of the mistakes several years later after they were pointed out. Those mistakes and errors were frustrating at times and made my learning experience far worse. Let's hope that someone will notice and at last make this course more user-friendly.
Way too many errors in the graded assignment. Non-reponsive teaching assistants.
I've tried a few courses that are similar and this one is better than average.
While the material was good the quiz was frustrating (5 answers to the 13 questions on the quiz) so no way to go back and see the calculations.
Strange quizzes, short content. If you're doing the specialization I would still recommend it
Material was fantastic. Generally informative, and clear, however the quizs and projects, were often unintuitive, unclear, and at times, simply had the wrong answers. Very frustrating.
The subject matter for this course is very, very interesting! The professor does a nice job of layering the complexity from basic concepts to more advanced concepts. However, this is where the "good news" ends. The course is full of all sorts of calculation errors on the graded quizes
So many errors in quizzes and solutions. Waste of time.
Very bad quizzes due to incorrect answers!
This was an exceptionally well delivered course. Got to learn a lot. The concepts and their application at the beginners level was 100% perfect. Simple and clear use of jargons of finance made the understanding very easy to digest. Practice quiz and graded quiz. did test the proper application. Only one small suggesstion, after the course certification is completed, at the end, some more questions can be provided with solution as take-away practice for future reference and practice. This would enable the student to re-look and practice. Thank you Dr. Arzu for the wonderful compilations of notes, videos, etc. Kudos to you and Rice University. !!! Grateful. Stay safe in these time. -- Akshay D.
To the successors:that is an intriguing and informative course,you can learn some useful skills and details concerning the Chartered Financial Analyst that the context (or course itself) in your country may not cover.
outstanding, and includes a few Excel exercise as well which I have found very useful
Excellent course, unfortunately ruined by the lack of support from mentoring or teaching staff. Also getting a peer review assigned is very difficult, probably due to shortage of students.
some mistakes in the final answers
There were a lot of typos and errors in this course. Please, fix them. From the content perspective the course is very informative and I would suggest it
The course has many mistakes, especially the quizzes solutions. The staff was not very active answering forum questions. In some way, I felt disappointed taking this course, because the quality is very poor in comparison to the other three courses of this specialization. However, I hope this review helps the staff to improve the quality of this course for future students, considering that the teacher has a great methodology to explain the content.