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Derivative market instruments: futures and options Exchange traded funds Valuation of income-producing property Nurture your health and family life Risk and return: the record Investment principles Read up on the undisputed "Out of Africa" theory Be quietly competitive Risk-free rate Element 3: financial instruments Life-cycle of happiness Relationship between risk and return Valuation of fixed-interest securities Behavioural finance theory Undertake a lifelong love affair with macroeconomics and the political environment Do not lend money to anyone Do not bow to peer pressure The instruments (ultimate investments) of the ultimate borrowers Primary and secondary markets Share market Element 5: money creation The life-cycle and investing Money market instruments Underspend What are risk and return?Phase 1: 0-20 Promote a rock-solid emotional backbone Top-down investing is wise Lessons from the theories and maxims OTC and exchange-driven markets Investment theories and maxims Be cognizant of behavioural finance (the psychology of the market)Element 1: lenders and borrowers Undertake SKI holidays Learning outcomes Valuation of participation interests Measuring risk and return Private equity funds Phase 3: maturity to seniority (40-60)Appreciate the life-cycle consumption theory Foreign exchange market Four phases of the life-cycle Preoperational stage (2-7 years)Spot and derivative markets Drive home the philosophy that wealth has two legs: monetary and non-monetary Asset classes Share market instruments Valuation of futures and options Bond market instruments Property unit trusts Other rules which apply throughout or during part of your life-cycle Element 2: financial intermediaries Understand macroeconomics and mean reversion Modern portfolio theory Phase 4: seniority to exodus (60-80+) Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Invest assets wisely There is no simple formula to make you wealthy Efficient market hypothesis Pursue happiness Investment vehicles Nurture and exploit your personal brand Property Of the real investments, property is the most significant investment for the retail investor (individual)Phase 1: newborn to adulthood (0-20) Commodities Foreign investments Continue to invest assets wisely Diversification is critical Never fall in love with an investment Finance lifestyle assets with excess funds Choose your life partner with care The instruments of the financial intermediaries Appreciate the significance of the risk-free rate Read up on the cognitive development stages of offspring Debt market Phase 2: adulthood to maturity (20-40) Other real investments Investment environment The financial system Portfolio management Phase 2: 20-40 Do not become dependent on the largesse of your spouse Six elements of the financial system Resist the Indiana Jones temptation to make a comeback Sensorimotor stage (0-2 years)Be aware of the principal-agent dilemma Element 6: price discovery Real investments Phase 3: 40-60 Time value of money Retirement funds Hedge funds Learning outcomes Programme the child's mind to be an inquiring one Element 4: financial markets Formal operational stage (11-15+ years)Base investment decisions on their FVP Concrete operational stage (7-11 years)Choose your career with care Definition and objective of investment Valuation of other real assets Insure your life only Valuation of shares Aggressively repay debt Provide sound education inside and outside institutions of learning Phase 4: 60-80+Allied participants in the financial system Undertake one career and become accomplished at it Nurture relationships in business with like-minded people and avoid negatively-focused people Undertake lifelong continuing education Cash out and separate business risk from personal assets Promote an ethos of sound money management Have no regrets upon exodus Securities unit trusts Long-term insurers Choose this day carefully and prepare yourself emotionally Take on debt, but with much thought Appreciate market liquidity Do not be led by technical analysis Fundamental analysis (aka firm foundation theory) (security valuation)Capital asset pricing model Risk and return Be kind to people with humble stations (positions) in life Valuation of commodities Asset allocation over the life-cycle Investment instruments Leave investing to the professionals

A short course of lectures«Investments: An Introduction»

A short course of lectures
«Investments: An Introduction»