An Introduction to Financial Markets

Do you want to understand the financial press, and especially the section on financial markets and products?

Do you want to start a career in financial markets? 

Or do you want to improve your knowledge to become an expert in how to create stakeholder value?

This course will make sure that you can respond to the answers positively in a very fast pace! 

This course includes 16 lectures giving you the basics about financial markets and financial products. Specifically, you will learn about: 

* Different types of finance: corporate finance, asset management and financial market infrastructures

* Equity finance

* How to buy listed shares, including the role of trading venues, brokers. Also the concepts of market orders, limited orders and stop loss orders are explained. 

* Fixed income securities, such as corporate bonds, government bonds and convertible bonds. Also an introduction to asset-based securities is provided. 

* Money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and commercial paper. 

* Derivatives: options, futures, forwards, and swaps

* Structured products

* Short selling and dark pools

* Financial intermediaries and banks where commercial banks and investment banks are compared. 

* Clearing and settlement

* Portfolio management: the difference between active vs. passive management

* Fundamental analysis (including ratio analysis).

* Technical analysis, where historical stock prices are used to predict future ones.