Wiley Global Finance Partners with SyMynd
Online Finance Courses Featuring Aswath Damodaran and His Books
Wiley Gobal Finance, part of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Professional
Development business, has partnered with SyMynd (www.symynd.com)
to develop and offer three online courses taught by New York University
professor and prominent Wiley finance author Aswath Damodaran. The first
course to be offered is INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHIES, based on Damodaran’s
book of the same title. The course will be divided into thirty sessions
that will include content from fourteen book chapters, thirty-eight
video lectures, and self-assessment quizzes where course participants
can test their knowledge. The course will open for registration on
August 1st, 2013. Two more courses are in development and
will be rolled out later in 2013.
To see a full course description of INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHIES, click here.
Aswath Damodaran is Professor of Finance at New York University's
Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has been the recipient of
numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the NYU
university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the
nation's top business school teachers by BusinessWeek in 1994. In
addition, Damodaran teaches training courses in corporate finance and
valuation at many leading investment banks. His publications include
Investment Valuation (now in its third edition), Damodaran on Valuation:
Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance; Corporate
Finance; Investment Management; and Applied Corporate Finance, all
published by Wiley, and The Dark Side of Valuation.
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About the Book:
Investment Philosophies covers different investment
philosophies and reveal the beliefs that underlie each one, the evidence
on whether the strategies that arise from the philosophy actually
produce results, and what an investor needs to bring to the table to
make the philosophy work.
The book covers a wealth of strategies including indexing, passive and
activist value investing, growth investing, chart/technical analysis,
market timing, arbitrage, and many more investment philosophies.
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Presents the tools needed to understand portfolio management and the
variety of strategies available to achieve investment success
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Explores the process of creating and managing a portfolio
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Shows readers how to profit like successful value growth index
investors
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Aswath Damodaran is a well-known academic and practitioner in finance
who is an expert on different approaches to valuation and investment
This vital resource examines various investing philosophies and provides
you with helpful online resources and tools to fully investigate each
investment philosophy and assess whether it is a philosophy that is
appropriate for you.
