Financial Literacy: Finding Your Way in the Financial Markets

Overview

Take better advantage of the markets and build your personal wealth with this course that connects the larger world of finance to the everyday investment decisions you engage in. “Financial Literacy: Finding Your Way in the Financial Markets” offers an essential primer on the interconnected workings of financial markets, highlighting their effects on your personal finances.

Course Instructor

This course is taught by an award-winning professor from Duke University, who reveals the complexities of finance with clarity and insight, making the subject approachable even for those who may not consider themselves “financially savvy.”

Video Lessons

• Feeling at Home in the Financial Markets
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Understand how financial markets operate and their societal functions.

• Where the Money Goes
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Explore the flow of money in financial markets and its relation to national economic measures like debt and GDP.

• Financial Markets Run on Information
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Learn about the importance of information in financial markets and the implications of asymmetric information.

4. Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
   • Duration: 29 min
   • Description: Investigate how credit scores are calculated and what influences the mortgage application process.

• The Fine Print
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Break down the structure of loans and credit card agreements to understand repayment terms.

• What Is Special about Banks?
  • Duration: 28 min
  • Description: Analyze how banks generate profit and their roles in the financial system.

• Billion-Dollar IOUs-Using Bonds to Borrow
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Understand the process of issuing bonds and the role of credit rating agencies.

• The Double Identity of Stocks
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Discover how stocks work, including dividends and shareholder rights.

• The Sell Job
  • Duration: 31 min
  • Description: Learn about the process of registering and selling securities through public offerings.

• The Mysterious Money Market
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Differentiate between money markets and capital markets, and learn about key instruments.

• Think Globally, Lend … Globally
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Explore global borrowing and lending, including the Eurodollar market.

• Trading Securities
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Examine how technology has transformed the dynamics of securities trading.

• Returns and Prices in the Secondary Market
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Learn how to interpret market news and pricing in the secondary market.

• The Truth about Pricing
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Dive into the theories and methods used for pricing financial assets.

• A Tale of Two Funds
  • Duration: 28 min
  • Description: Compare mutual funds and hedge funds and their differing trading strategies.

• The Market for Corporate Control
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Description: Explore how companies are bought and sold, including mergers and acquisitions.

• What Companies Tell the Markets
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Discover key disclosures made by public companies that affect investors.

18. What Moves the Markets
    • Duration: 29 min
    • Description: Identify the economic indicators that can impact market movements.

19. When Central Banks Talk, Markets Listen
    • Duration: 30 min
    • Description: Understand the powerful influence of central banks on the financial markets.

• Interest Rates as Indicators
  • Duration: 29 min
  • Description: Learn about the significance of interest rates and the yield curve in economic analysis.

• Risk Management and Insurance
  • Duration: 28 min
  • Description: Examine different risks faced by investors and ways to mitigate them.

22. Mortgages and Securitization
    • Duration: 31 min
    • Description: Investigate what happens to mortgages after you buy a home and the securitization process.

23. The Whys and Hows of Financial Regulation
    • Duration: 31 min
    • Description: Explore the importance of regulating financial institutions and their impacts on the market.

24. The Future of Finance
    • Duration: 32 min
    • Description: Reflect on emerging trends in finance and the growing responsibility individuals have for their financial health.