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Advanced Investments
- Narrated by: Steve L. Slezak
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This is an advanced course for investors in the market, covering cutting-edge investment principles and practices used by professionals. You learn hands-on techniques for analyzing the central problem of investing: How to determine if a potential investment is a good deal. Employing concepts from probability and statistics, you learn how to measure risk accurately. Then you explore methods for determining if a given security, such as a stock or bond, will generate returns that compensate for its risk.
Throughout these 24 in-depth lectures, you weigh the relative advantages of active and passive investment strategies. An active approach takes advantage of mispriced securities that can be traded for a profit. A passive strategy seeks to build a well-diversified portfolio that can be put on automatic pilot. Many investors combine these strategies, and Professor Slezak takes you through a wide range of cases that show how to devise a balanced approach.
His many useful tips include how to avoid the most common mistakes that investors make, why you should think in terms of net present value in evaluating a company, how to combine securities in order to control risk, and the importance of analyzing an investment before you act.
Professor Slezak is an expert who knows how to communicate effectively. He enlivens his presentation with colorful anecdotes and object lessons from the recent history of Wall Street. His parting advice: Don't be afraid of the market. Nothing is a sure thing, he stresses, but the market has performed consistently over the long term.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- John
- 03-12-14
Excellent content, but you need to watch the video
What did you like best about Advanced Investments? What did you like least?
The course content was excellent. However, because there's a lot of math/statistics involved, listening to equations being spoken leaves you missing out. I'm a long-time Teaching Company (aka The Great Courses) customer and I wish I had purchase this item directly from them in the video format. Although I was excited to see it on Audible (where it is also cheaper), it was just too hard to follow without actually seeing anything.
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- reviewer
- 07-27-15
Hard To Follow Without Documentation
Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Steve L. Slezak, PhD?
This is a great course with a lot of great information and that is the problem. Without the documentation, that Audible does not provide, this is a very very hard course to follow by just listening.
Would you be willing to try another one of Professor Steve L. Slezak, PhD’s performances?
Yes once you starting providing the documentation/text he would be using with the course.
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- Carlos
- 10-31-14
Really not what I spected
Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Steve L. Slezak, PhD?
I am a fan of The Great Courses, but I would not purchase another audiobook from Prof. Slezak. I would read a book and do the math or the exercises. My opinion is that he spends way too much time calculating rates of return, yield curves, etc. This is simply put, too much detail. It is really difficult to listen to someone doing math as opposed to following along on a piece of paper or a blackboard. I quit halfway through the program.
Would you be willing to try another one of Professor Steve L. Slezak, PhD’s performances?
No. I would buy his book or attend a lecture, but will not spend time listening to him doing math to four significant digits.
Any additional comments?
I hope you do not misunderstand me. I am not saying this in a disrespectful way. However I believe this program would be a lot better if he gave more insight into the the world of investment as opposed to doing financial math.
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- Mike
- 07-19-15
Yes its Advanced!
Would you consider the audio edition of Advanced Investments to be better than the print version?
No, and the PDF can be printed out. I strongly suggest you print sections as you go if you want to get the most out of this audiobook/ lecture.
Would you be willing to try another book from The Great Courses? Why or why not?
Yes, they are the best!
Any additional comments?
Some of these reviews are bias! Yes its heavy in mathematics because valuation formulas, derivative pricing and every other mathematical example used in this audiobook/lecture that is used by professionals is mathematics heavy! My advice is brush up on your statistics. I am not a math person but I'm trying to learn to better my skills in finance. I have listened to this book a few times and it was not until I took a basic statistic class that I actually began to understand some of the terminology used in this book.
This information is essential if you are out to master investing, even for the novice investor.
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- OD
- 01-20-16
good course content wise but not for audible
support materials are mandatory - the audio content is not sufficient, too many formulas and graph references.
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- Kevin
- 08-25-21
Insightful and practical, depending on the reader!
Here's a short quiz to see if the audiobook format of this book can work with your style of thinking:
What is x if (1.01^x) = 1.02?
Think about it for ~15 seconds.
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Your reaction might have been:
A) Seems like plain algebra. Take the log of both sides, okay xlog(1.01) = log(1.02), so x = log(1.02)/log(1.01)
B) Seems like 1.01 is a 1% increase. If I increase by 1% twice, that's a smidge more than 2% increase, so X would be (pause to think about the sign) a smidge less than 2.
C) Seems like math. Maybe I'd try when I was younger...
There's nothing wrong with reaction A. I'm saddened but certainly not judgmental about reaction C. But I can say with near certainty that you won't follow this audiobook well unless you had reaction B.
The professor talks through the actual algebra of every equation he sets up, to several sig figs, at least once a chapter. Understanding these equations is an important part of understanding the content. You might think that following his precise algebra (like reaction A) would be helpful. The problem is, audio is simply not a good format to convey that kind of symbolic manipulation. If you try, you'll end up like most other reviewers: totally flabbergasted by why anyone would think to make this an audiobook.
I eventually found there is a much better method to follow along: Pay close attention when he sets up the equation... and then tune out everything he says! While he blabs about the multiplications and lists out 3 decimal places, there is plenty of time to think about what you should expect the answer might be – slightly bigger than linear growth, slightly smaller than last years' interest rate, etc. Pausing the audio if needed. By the time he arrives at his conclusion, you can compare your answer to his, and correct your intuition accordingly. After this adjustment, I had no trouble with the format and rather enjoyed the math detours.
On the book itself
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The lectures take you from understanding compound interest to understanding most of the fundamental features of stocks, bonds, and the markets involving them. It gives great intuition for bonds and the various types, "the" interest rate, how these capital sources are used by companies making products, how to calculate stock prices from expected revenue steams and liabilities, how to calculate their risks, why investors have different risk tolerances, how they will trade risk in a rational market, and finally deriving the CAPM model: a global theory of equilibrium asset pricing.
These are all fascinating topics and things I understood very incompletely before reading this. The lecturer was clear and structured the course very well to build upon previous topics.
To all those with reaction B above, I highly recommend this course!
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- Hendrick Mcdonald
- 11-15-15
Certainly Advanced, Portfolio Theory
The audiobook goes over elements of 'portfolio theory' with detailed discussions of bond pricing, risk and returns as beta and alpha, and then some options/futures investing. Most of it went over my head, but for those who are comfortable with the basic terms, it is sufficiently advanced as a next step.
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- Hugo Marchesano Machado
- 09-19-17
Not advanced at all
It's a basic course. Disappointing to pay for something that should be advanced and it's not
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- wbiro
- 09-05-20
A Book of Irony
The professor admits up front that an active portfolio (your stocks actively traded) holds no advantage over an index fund (your stocks just sitting there), yet the rest of the lectures get into the various ways that you can actively manage your stocks (in futility, remember). So the lectures are informative in that respect. They get into bonds, too.
Another flaw are the equations. Not that there are loads of them (there are, and you cannot envision them in an audiobook), but that they all rely on initial assumptions, which, if wrong, only creates 'garbage out' (from 'garbage in'). They do help you think clearly, however, revealing basic relationships (inverse, parallel).
The last flaw is philosophical - the lectures embrace the casino mentality of investing rather than an enlightened one (one where you would 'invest' in an enterprise that will contribute to Broader Survival) (and you need to read the Philosophy of Broader Survival to understand that).
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- Stephen Devane
- 10-20-22
slightly outdated
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- Ricardo Maragna
- 09-30-17
Excellent insight to financial calculation
Wish I had this set of lectures available to complement my studies at university.
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- GT89
- 08-10-17
Not the most interesting subject, but made worse
I have a keen but amateur interest in investments and the stock market. This audiobook was so dull I couldn't finish it unfortunately.
I've listened and read a lot of audiobooks and normal books on the subject and this is the only one that I found 'boring' - I appreciate it's a dry subject but it's one that many others have got far more out of.
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- Booka
- 08-01-17
About as technical as could be for an Audible
There were difficult bits to listen to without seeing the formulates eg. the chapters on bond pricing and standard deviation. I would have struggled if I wasn't already familiar with the material. There was lots on the CAPM model. I would have liked more on the 3-factor and 5-factor equity return models but at least they were mentioned. There are few useful internet sites of analysis mentioned which I will check out.
Overall, stay in the equity market over the long term and be prepared for large drawdowns (but don't panic and sell), and stay diversified.
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- Anna Malahova
- 11-06-19
Does not work as an audio book
It might be a good book, but not in audio format. It has good accompanying materials, but without looking it is very hard to follow. Some other lecturers manage to describe calculations by explaining what goes into the formula and how its arguments impact the result, but here umpteen formulae are red as they are seen on paper. The reason I choose audiobooks over text versions is the ability to free my eyes and hands for other tasks.
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- Mike
- 02-27-17
Great course ! Professional approach to investing.
Love the chapters about fixed income with all calculations. I highly recommend to download notes from the course which are available in PDF format.
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- Mars
- 10-09-15
investment for academics!
Want to become a better investor? My advice, learn from the great investors. Don't waste your time with academics.
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