Investment analyses on capital markets

Teaching results

Knowledge and Competences:
By completing the course Investment analyses on capital markets, a student should significantly improve his capital market analytical skills. The course further develops analytical skills obtained by completing the Capital Markets course. In terms of fundamental analysis, the course focuses on macroeconomic factors affecting the behavior of capital markets, on sectoral analysis that investigates the structure of individual industries from the capital markets standpoint, and also on microeconomic analysis on the company level. In terms of technical analysis, the course deals with technical analysis tools widely used on stock markets, ranging from the analysis of trends and cycles, to graphical price formations and mathematic-statistical indicators. In terms of psychological analysis, attention is paid especially to the theory of bubbles and to calendar anomalies. By completing this course, the student should obtain deeper knowledge and skills in the area of investment analyses on capital markets, that can be used in praxis in a wide range of analytical and asset management positions in banks, insurance companies, and asset management companies, as well as for an individual analysis of financial markets.

Skills:
To learn how to work with databases and to improve analytical skills and abilities of interpretation of capital market changes.
To solve problems as a team.
To seek the most effective and rational methods from the point of view of a financial institution as well as an individual investor.