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About the Course

The practice of investment management has been transformed in recent years by computational methods. This course provides an introduction to the underlying science, with the aim of giving you a thorough understanding of that scientific basis. However, instead of merely explaining the science, we help you build on that foundation in a practical manner, with an emphasis on the hands-on implementation of those ideas in the Python programming language. This course is the first in a four course specialization in Data Science and Machine Learning in Asset Management but can be taken independently. In this course, we cover the basics of Investment Science, and we'll build practical implementations of each of the concepts along the way. We'll start with the very basics of risk and return and quickly progress to cover a range of topics including several Nobel Prize winning concepts. We'll cover some of the most popular practical techniques in modern, state of the art investment management and portfolio construction. As we cover the theory and math in lecture videos, we'll also implement the concepts in Python, and you'll be able to code along with us so that you have a deep and practical understanding of how those methods work. By the time you are done, not only will you have a foundational understanding of modern computational methods in investment management, you'll have practical mastery in the implementation of those methods....

Top reviews

SW

Aug 5, 2020

I am self taught in Python and have an industry background in Finance. This course was a good connector/provided additional insight on using Python to process portfolio performance and data analysis.

MA

Nov 29, 2020

Awesome Course, Great instructors that give a nice balance of theory and practice, the practice is very hands-on and will help you understand the theory and give you useful tools from the first week.

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By Tiantang S

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Jul 22, 2023

Practical labs are very good though sometimes it rushes a bit.

Lectures can have a bit more details.

Overall it's a good course.

By Hardik P

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May 3, 2020

This course is not at all an Introductory course. It is quite advanced and requires a decent level of commitment to keep up

By Ng

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Feb 8, 2020

A bit quick in the later part, but overall gives me the knowledge of finance theory and hand-on experience in coding.

By Nisanth S

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May 25, 2020

A very beginner friendly course with more a lot of focus on financial concepts and how to execute them using Python

By Minshen C

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Dec 3, 2019

it would be great if this course could be splitted to 6 or 7 weeks; the session of each week is too long now

By FRANÇOIS L

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May 19, 2020

Very interesting course on portfolio construction with enthusiastic and passion-driven teachers.

By Alejandro C

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Aug 19, 2020

Really great teacher and extremely clear. Wish there was more emphasis in learning of python.

By Johan G B

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Aug 30, 2020

awesome course! The labs are really good. Maybe the lectures should be improved.

By Igor R

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Nov 20, 2020

Very informative, though a bit of a mismatch between labs and lectures.

By adrian c

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Oct 31, 2023

Excellent content ... the dates assigned for completion are short

By Loi H H

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Jul 25, 2022

Great Course, learnt a lot about Portfolio Construction.

By Cheikh A C A

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Apr 30, 2021

Very interessting course with examples of real world

By Deep S

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Feb 11, 2021

The lab guy is awesome in his ability to teach

By GreenTea S

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May 19, 2020

I found hands-on session to be quite useful.

By Haiqing W

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Jul 22, 2020

Great course, learnt a lot.

By kelvin a

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Mar 20, 2022

Vijay is the GOAT

By BOB G

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Dec 31, 2021

mistakes in codes

By Kristian V

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Feb 13, 2021

Very informative

By Brigitte

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Nov 13, 2022

A bit disorganised to be honest. In the Python introductory section there are missing lessons and it's just not enough to provide a link to external YouTube videos of 2-3 hours with a low video quality where the lecturer writes on a board that can be barely read. Also, there are readings that refer to broken links.

By matteo b

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Mar 18, 2021

I think there should be a bit more of Theory

By Raymond T

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Jul 18, 2021

Very useful

By Titus

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Jun 3, 2020

The content was very well taught in week one, but the end of week test was FAR too advanced considering the supporting lectures. The content then seems to be quite disparate when you try and solve problems for yourself in python during the test.

By Leonardo A

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Nov 17, 2020

The theory content is really good but the learning classes of Python does not help much. Should be more teaching on what is being doing while programming. Most of the time it is a code copying video.

By Kyle N

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Mar 19, 2020

Not a great course, I do not plan on finishing this course. I apologize.

By Chloe P

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Oct 19, 2022

I did not like how the programming in Python was made. It was very hard to follow as I regularly had issues and for instance I never managed to get ipywidget. I would have like for an help section for errors and for the course to be more regularly updated as to avoid this problem when downloading ipywidget for instance.

Moreover, I lament the lack of constructive thinking during the course, we had to do everything outside the course and never had any tips during the exams or little steps as to how to get the right answer.

Overall, I do not think it will be useful.