- Introduction
- 1.1 Savings and investments
- 1.2 Savings behaviour in the UK
- 1.3 Investment planning needs a long-term perspective
- 1.4 The drivers of equity markets
- 1.5 Week 1 quiz
- Week 1 round-up
- Introduction
- 2.1 Variable rate and fixed rate savings products
- 2.2 Investing in shares
- 2.3 Bonds (fixed interest investments)
- 2.4 Investing in commodities
- 2.5 Week 2 quiz
- Week 2 round-up
- Further reading
- Introduction
- 3.1 Time horizons and goals
- 3.2 Diversifying investments dilutes risk
- 3.3 Introducing the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
- 3.4 Understanding the efficient markets hypothesis
- 3.5 Week 3 quiz
- Week 3 round-up
- Further reading
- Introduction
- 4.1 Investor activity – evidence from the industry
- 4.2 Relative returns
- 4.3 Historic returns from different asset classes
- 4.4 Supermarkets – low betas but high risk?
- 4.5 Week 4 quiz
- Week 4 round-up
- Introduction
- 5.1 Investing for a pension
- 5.2 Occupational pensions
- 5.3 Calculating pension income
- 5.4 The 2015 pensions revolution: freeing up access to pension pots
- 5.5 Week 5 quiz
- Week 5 round-up
- Introduction
- 6.1 Questions answered
- 6.2 Behaviour and risk
- 6.3 Bounded rationality
- 6.4 Contagion
- 6.5 Monitoring shares, gilts and Bank Rate
- 6.6 Your investment management check-list
- 6.7 End-of-course quiz
- End-of-course round-up
- Further reading
- References
- Acknowledgements
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