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Bonds are relatively safe investments with a steady stream of income, often issued by governments and corporations as a means of borrowing money. They are fairly complex things, however, as there are a variety of attributes that contribute to how a bond is ultimately valued. This course will elucidate the entire concept of bonds, including why they are issued, and what sort of risks they present.
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Investments and Portfolio Theory are a function of the risk, return, and tradeoffs associated between them. In this course, you'll explore how these factors are interconnected, and how to analyze the risk-return tradeoff to make safe and smart investments. By course's end, you'll be ready to construct a diverse, powerful investment portfolio.
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Macroeconomics is the "big-picture" of the economy - a view of how, why, and in what way people, governments, and central banks react to economic events. In this course, you'll treat macroeconomics as a story, analyzing historical events, and discussing how major economic stimulants can affect personal financial decisions. You'll gain a holistic view of how global economies work, and how to act as an individual within them.
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Equity valuation can be a complex and confusing concept, but it's an essential one for entrepreneurs and anybody who works in a small business or startup. This course will explore equity valuation from both wide and narrow scopes before connecting the dots between the two to give you a full-fledged understanding of this important financial concept.
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As any American can tell you, corporate finance is an incredibly complex and dicey subject. This course, however, will give you a comprehensive, big picture and small details overview of corporate finance. You'll dive into financial statements, ratios, Dupont's Identity, and more essential topics so you'll have a complete grasp of how money really works.
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Microeconomics is a field packed with everyday applications, from economic to social transactions. This course explores the competitive theories of economics, giving you a crash course in how to think about markets, finance, and the economic drivers that guide all of our decisions.
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This course gets straight to business (quite literally), outlining the hows and whys of top tech companies' successes and failures. Dive into 4 in-depth case studies of tech titans Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, gaining insight as to each company's business model, finances, and more. You'll walk away with valuable insights you can apply to your own company to optimize for its long-term success.
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R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is widely used among statisticians and data miners for data analysis. In this course, you'll get a thorough run-through of how R works and how it's applied to data science. Before you know it, you'll be crunching numbers like a pro, and be better qualified for many lucrative careers.
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Financial markets are fickle beasts that can be extremely difficult to navigate for the average investor. This course will introduce you to machine learning, a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed, while teaching you how to apply these techniques to quantitative trading. Using Python libraries, you'll discover how to build sophisticated financial models that will better inform your investing decisions. Ideally, this one will buy itself back and then some!
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Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals--Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh--who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.Important Details
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