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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Lending, Crowdfunding, and Modern Investing by University of Pennsylvania

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About the Course

In this course, you’ll learn the foundational theories behind robo-advising, crowdfunding, and marketplace lending, and how to apply these theories to optimize your investments. Professor David Musto of the Wharton School has designed this course to help you gain a practical understanding of the theoretical frameworks of Modern Portfolio Theory and Financial Technology. You’ll learn how to apply the ideas behind robo-advising and crowdfunding to better assess and leverage a more optimized portfolio while managing risks. You’ll also explore the current consumer credit landscape and learn how to utilize financial technologies in your business. You’ll analyze real-life examples by studying the cases of Square and CommonBond. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in calculating risks and returns in robo-advising and crowdfunding, and be able to assess the value of marketplace lending to achieve better returns on your investments. No prerequisites are required for this course, although "Fintech: Foundations, Payments, and Regulations" and "Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies" from Wharton's Fintech Specialization are recommended....

Top reviews

BD

Sep 21, 2019

Covers the breadth of the emerging fintech industry well, but specific details or references to algorithms and techniques used in each of these sectors would have been interesting.

KV

Mar 1, 2022

Offered insights on a variety of topics and has informed my thinking about applications of FinTech

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By Anthony C

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Aug 5, 2019

Pprofessor was hard to follow with all the "ok" and fumbled words. Tried reading along and it reads the same as he spoke. This was hard to watch therefore turned into me taking quiz multiple times

By David C

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May 28, 2020

The tone of voice and intonation of the teacher makes the course a bit boring or lose interest, I resorted to reading the slides to learn and present the exams

By Rahul H

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Jun 7, 2020

The content of the course is good. However, the professor explains the same is not very pointed - confusing and long story telling.

By Jiacheng L

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Jan 4, 2020

Generally good. The best parts are the two case studies in week4, they provided good insights into the industry.

By Luis F P M

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Jul 21, 2023

It's a good course, but some videos are so long to explain concepts with poor depth.

By LIN, C

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Aug 4, 2021

The professor seems to fumble words all the time. The way he explains is hard to understand.

By Basil C

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Oct 17, 2020

The content could be much improved and impactful.

By Denys P

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Oct 25, 2019

US centric course, very biased (without a word of warning that it is a non global one).