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Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS aids us to gain an understanding of the theory underlying optimal portfolio construction, the different ways portfolios are actually built in practice and how to measure and manage the risk of portfolios.

A derivative instrument is a contract which specifies the conditions under which a transaction will take place in the future. The price of the derivative depends on the price of another asset called as the underlying asset.

These financial instruments are not just interesting for traders and to deepen pockets but even from economics and research point of view, these instruments are fascinating.

 As we know, the share price of a firm, at least theoretically, are the discounted values of expected future cash flows. This method to value stock price, as discussed in the article, understanding financial markets, is called the discounted cash flow method.

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS dive into the concepts of rationality and irrationality and understand how they impact our investment decisions and what the consequences can be at the market level.

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS tells what the main financial markets and their characteristics are and how they are linked to the economy. We start by seeing how the price of stocks and bonds are computed and why they move.

Behavioural finance is the study of the effects of psychological effects on decision making on financial investors, thereby effecting market outcomes. So, basically, it studies the psychology of financial decision making

Two theories are prevalent regarding the relationship between corruption and economic growth

 Click here to access the file containing my learnings of GFC based on Yale's course.

Recently, while reading about the history of religions, I read that several founders of world religions, like, Christ, Zoroaster, Confucius, Buddha were born and lived in 1st millennium BC.

Our Milky Way is a spiralling Galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars, with a stellar disk diameter of approximately 150,000-200,000 light-years and depth of 2000 light-years.