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Seeking Investment Alpha

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Overview

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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to use beta to compare stock’s exposure to the systematic risk and use alpha to quantify the investment’s return over the market return.

ATTENTION: To take this course, it is required that you are familiar basic financial risk management concepts. You can gain them by taking the guided project Compare Stock Returns with Google Sheets.

Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

This course's content is not intended to be investment advice and does not constitute an offer to perform any operations in the regulated or unregulated financial market

Syllabus

  • Seeking Investment Alpha
    • In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to use beta to compare stock’s exposure to the systematic risk and use alpha to quantify the investment’s return over the market return.

Taught by

Bekhruzbek Ochilov, ACSI

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