Investing and Building Wealth
by Craig Lemoine · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Coursera)
University of Illinois course covering securities and markets, risk and return measures such as beta and standard deviation, diversification across multi-asset portfolios, and time value of money, so learners can build portfolios suited to different life stages.
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