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Behavioral Analytics for Investment Decision-Making


Description
This 4.5 hour certification course provides participants with an overview of methodologies for measuring investment decision-making skill, a tutorial on each analysis on the Essentia Insight platform, and valuable tips for putting Behavioral Analytics to work in the context of your team’s own investment process.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of the certification course, learners will be able to:
- Evaluate the performance of a portfolio manager through a behavioral lens
- Assess fund manager skill across the canonical nine different skill types
- Judge the quality of different types of investment decision making through appropriate categorizers, filters, and reports
- Identify patterns and insights about what is and what is not working for a given fund manager
- Develop and test new hypotheses about fund manager behavior
- Connect nudge responses with performance and other portfolio metrics
- Utilize the Essentia Insight platform to answer questions fund managers care about
Content
  • Module 1: The Basics (about 20 min)
  • Background & Instructions
  • Tutorial: Intro to Essentia Methodologies, Definitions & Metrics (6:30)
  • Quiz: Intro to Methodologies, Definitions & Metrics
  • Tutorial: Intro to Essentia Insight (3:20)
  • Quiz: Intro To Essentia Insight
  • Module 2: Key Performance Metrics & Episode-Based Analytics (about 35 min)
  • Tutorial: Single Categorizer Performance Analysis (4:30)
  • Quiz: Single Categorizer Performance Analysis
  • Tutorial: Episode Impact & Weight Analysis (4:35)
  • Quiz: Episode Impact & Weight Analysis
  • Tutorial: Episode Impact & Weight Dual Scatterplots Analysis (2:00)
  • Quiz: Episode Impact & Weight Dual Scatterplots Analysis
  • Tutorial: Category Crossover Analysis (2:35)
  • Quiz: Category Crossover Analysis
  • Tutorial: KPMs Over Time Analysis (3:45)
  • Quiz: KPMs Over Time Analysis
  • Tutorial: Cohort Analysis (1:20)
  • Quiz: Cohort Analysis
  • Module 3: Timelines (about 10 min)
  • Tutorial: Timeline (4:05)
  • Quiz: Timeline
  • Tutorial: Timeline Comparison (1:08)
  • Quiz: Timeline Comparison
  • Module 4: Skill Analyses (about 1 hr)
  • Tutorial: Behavioral Alpha Frontier (4:45)
  • Quiz: Behavioral Alpha Frontier
  • Tutorial: Stock Picking Skill Analysis (2:50)
  • Quiz: Stock Picking Skill Analysis
  • Tutorial: Sizing Skill Analysis (5:35)
  • Quiz: Sizing Skill Analysis
  • Tutorial: Entry & Exit Timing Skill Analysis (8:30)
  • Quiz: Entry & Exit Timing Skill Analysis
  • Tutorial: Scaling Skill Analysis (6:30)
  • Quiz: Scaling Skill Analysis
  • Tutorial: Size Adjusting Skill Analysis (5:25)
  • Quiz: Size Adjusting Skill Analysis
  • Module 5: Trade Analyses (about 30 min)
  • Tutorial: Trade Count by Activity Analysis (3:00)
  • Quiz: Trade Count by Activity Analysis
  • Tutorial: Trade Weight by Activity Analysis (2:25)
  • Quiz: Trade Weight by Activity Analysis
  • Tutorial: Category and Direction Analysis (3:50)
  • Quiz: Category and Direction Analysis
  • Tutorial: Performance Over Time (3:20)
  • Quiz: Performance Over Time
  • Tutorial: Performance vs Trade Weight Analysis (4:30)
  • Quiz: Performance vs Trade Weight Analysis
  • MODULE 6: NUDGES & NUDGE ENGAGEMENT (about 20 min)
  • Nudges: Turning Insight into Continuous Improvement
  • Tutorial: Three Great Reasons to Engage With Nudges (6:19)
  • Tutorial: Nudge Engagement Analysis (1:30)
  • Quiz: Nudge Engagement Analysis
  • Tutorial: Energy Expenditure Screen (1:45)
  • Quiz: Energy Expenditure Screen
  • Tutorial: Note Browser & Note Reader (1:30)
  • Quiz: Note Browser and Note Reader
  • Module 7: Sell Discipline Analyses & Nudges (about 30 min)
  • Tutorial: VPL Backtest Summary Analysis (7:00)
  • Quiz: VPL Backtest Summary
  • Tutorial: Single Alert Count Analysis (3:23)
  • Quiz: Single Alert Count Analysis
  • Tutorial: VPL Timeline (2:17)
  • Quiz: VPL Timeline
  • Module 8: Alpha Decay (about 1 hr)
  • Tutorial: Intro to the Alpha Lifecycle (6:35)
  • Quiz: Intro to the Alpha Lifecycle
  • Tutorial: Alpha Lifecycle Analysis (7:10)
  • Quiz: Alpha Lifecycle Analysis
  • Tutorial: Lifecycle KPMs Analysis (3:45)
  • Quiz: Lifecycle KPMs Analysis
  • Tutorial: Lifecycle Summary Data Analysis (2:35)
  • Quiz: Lifecycle Summary Data Analysis
  • Tutorial: Lifecycle Scatterplots Analysis (4:50)
  • Quiz: Lifecycle Scatterplots Analysis
  • Tutorial: Lifecycle Bar Charts Analysis (1:35)
  • Quiz: Lifecycle Bar Charts Analysis
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever