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International Portfolio Managment (Coursera)

Offered by National Research Tomsk State University, Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской Федерации,

This course explains how today's portfolio management industry differs from the Harry Markowitz model and how to master it on your own using the Mythbusters' method and R project as your home financial laboratory.

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Syllabus

WEEK 1: Introduction
WEEK 2: Users, Universes and Industry
WEEK 3: Assessing managers and algorithms
WEEK 4: Asset allocation in real and imaginary world
WEEK 5: The struggle for robustness
WEEK 6: Information sets and global portfolios

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