Introduction to Behavioural Finance

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Free Online Course: Introduction to Behavioural Finance provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3 weeks long, 2-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. Introduction to Behavioural Finance is taught by Lakshmi R Srinivas, Rudrabhatla Lalitha, Pankaj Kumar Jalan, Dr. Bindu K Nambiar, Rahul Saxena, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty, Avinash Agrawal and G V Rao.

Overview
  • The course is aimed at beginners who want to understand the complex, yet interesting aspects of behavioural finance. The course will start with an introduction to basics of behavioural finance and how it impacts financial markets. The most common self-deception biases, cognitive biases, and emotional biases will then be discussed at length with appropriate examples and real-life case studies. We will discuss the causes and potential measures required to manage these biases. We will also discuss loss aversion and herding biases which have a great impact on the minds of investors. The course concludes with a section on the impact of unforeseen circumstances on the behavioural aspects of finance.

    The course is offered by a team of experienced faculty at State Bank Institute of Consumer banking ,an Apex Training Institute of State Bank of India. Apart from Instructors, following faculty members have contributed to the content of the course.

    Rabindra Kumar Mohanty

    Avinash Agrawal

    GV Rao

    M Sai Chakradhar

Syllabus
  • Overview of Behavioural Finance

    • Entropic Mind Leading to Self-Deception
    • Cognitive Biases in Financial Decision Making
    • Emotional and Social Biases in Financial Decision Making