Investment seminars

jimjames

ricky_v wrote: »

Thanks to this forum, I've booked onto https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/managing-my-investments.

I wonder if it's even worth what you're paying for it when I read this on their site

The course is up-to-date and covers the current reforms to UK pensions due to be rolled out in 2015

So not exactly "up to date"

sorcerer

jimjames wrote: »

I wonder if it's even worth what you're paying for it when I read this on their site

The course is up-to-date and covers the current reforms to UK pensions due to be rolled out in 2015

So not exactly "up to date"

That page no longer exists, perhaps they are watching this forum. :eek:

elephantrosie

edinburgher wrote: »

I would warn against the risk of absorbing too many ideas at an early stage in your investing 'career'.

Without meaning to be a cheeky git, you are asking a lot of questions about investing and while that's a good thing and very positive for your future wealth. Be wary of 'seminars'. As others have pointed out, they will all have an agenda or need to make money, remember the adage about free lunches

Also, unless you have millions to invest, I cannot for the life of me see the advantage of 'networking' at these sorts of events - you will be surrounded by people chasing fads with no more information than you already have...

It is possible to make good returns from investing with a basic understanding of risk, portfolio construction, attention to costs and diversification (many of these overlap). Unless you want to be the next hedge fund wizard, it's worth asking yourself whether you need *great* returns, or whether good with minimal effort will do fine

everyone learns in a different way.

edinburgher

I'm not sure how that relates to my comments.

Glen_Clark

These 'Investment Seminars' are a joke, but even proper economics courses haven't been much use to me. QE turned conventional economics upside down. Bad economic indicators led to a rise in equity prices as the market anticipated more money printing.

Malthusian

Or equity prices rose despite bad economic indicators rather than because of them. Why? Who knows. If you truly understand economics then you understand that the actions of politicians and other PPE graduates have much less effect on the economy than they like to think.

JohnRo

Equity prices have gone stratospheric because of the gargantuan QE handouts to investment banking clients at everyone else's expense, cheap financial engineering and continuing CB market manipulations.

Stock markets have decoupled from the economy proper, which is still flat lining on what the Americans would call mainstreet.

Glen_Clark

Government intervention in the financial markets has had such a big effect that fund managers have taken to hiring politicians instead of economists.