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Portfolio Management and Optimization in Excel (Udemy.com)

Learn How to Construct and Optimize Portfolios, Manage Risks, and Achieve Investment Objectives Using the Power of Excel

Created by: 365 Careers

Last updated February 2025

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What you will learn

  • Master fundamental concepts of financial markets and market participants
  • Acquire an in-depth understanding of individual and portfolio approaches to investing, portfolio management process, and diverse needs of various investor types
  • Explore the intricacies of the asset management industry and a wide range of pooled investment vehicles available
  • Download and interpret financial data
  • Grasp how to calculate the mean, variance, and correlation of asset returns
  • Understand the importance of diversification in reducing portfolio risk
  • Differentiate between systematic and unsystematic risk and understand their impact on portfolio management
  • Apply the principles of Modern Portfolio Theory and use the Capital Asset Pricing Model to estimate the expected return on equity
  • Use Excel to build an efficient frontier, allowing you to optimize your portfolio for a given level of risk

How it compares

Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 28% of them
  • Reviews399#205 of 377 by number of reviews
  • Length6.6 hourslonger than 62% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2025earlier than 57% of them

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Course Description

What’s the most effective way to diversify your investments to minimize risk and maximize returns?

What assets should you include in your portfolio?

How much money should you allocate to each asset in your portfolio?

What is the expected return on your portfolio, and what is the likelihood of achieving that return?

You can now develop your expertise and knowledge to achieve outstanding results in your career! This course is a fantastic training opportunity that could help you win job interviews, excel on the job, and get promoted.

The world of investing can be overwhelming, especially when considering the wide range of options available.

To make prudent investment decisions, you must have a clear understanding of your investment goals. Whether you are an individual saving for retirement or an institution looking to meet ongoing and future spending needs, your investment’s objectives should always guide your asset allocation tactics.

Our course takes you through the process of selecting the best investment options for your specific needs while minimizing risk and maximizing returns.

We'll teach you how to evaluate various investment options and how to make informed decisions to achieve your financial goals.

With our course, you'll gain the necessary skills and knowledge to analyze investment opportunities and identify those with the greatest growth potential.

You'll learn how to assess risk and return, select the best asset classes, and construct a diversified portfolio to achieve your objectives.

Investing your money is easier with the right tools and knowledge.

With our course, you'll be equipped with the necessary skills and expertise to confidently navigate the world of investments and make informed decisions that will pave the way toward financial success.


What you’ll learn in this course:

- Understand fundamental concepts of financial markets and market participants

- Gain an in-depth understanding of the individual and portfolio approaches to investing, the portfolio management process, and the diverse needs of various investor types

- Dive into the intricacies of the asset management industry and explore the wide range of pooled investment vehicles available

- Download and interpret financial data

- Acquire the skills to calculate the mean, variance, and correlation of asset returns

- Understand the concepts of correlation and diversification

- Find the difference between systematic and unsystematic risk

- Explore the Modern Portfolio Theory and learn how to use the Capital Asset Pricing Model to estimate the expected return on equity in stock valuation models

- Apply the concepts of portfolio theory to build an efficient frontier using Excel, allowing you to identify the optimal combination of assets for a given level of risk

- Calculate performance indicators such as the Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, M2, and Jensen’s alpha

- Differentiate between the Capital Allocation Line (CAL) and the Capital Market Line (CML)

- Delve into the concept of risk aversion and how it relates to shaping an investor's profile

- Examine investment policy statements from a practical perspective

- Understand the significance of written statements and how to analyze an investor's financial risk tolerance by distinguishing between their willingness and ability to take risks

- Explore ESG investing and learn how to integrate it into portfolio planning and construction

- Identify and quantify the types of risks a company faces

- Discover why risk elimination is not the goal of a firm's risk management system

- Define the principles of technical analysis as well as its underlying assumptions

- Examine common technical analysis indicators

- Illustrate how technical analysts use cycles in their analyses

Each of these sections contains practical examples and challenges aiming to reinforce what you have learned. The course is beautifully animated and interactive—we aim to deliver the ultimate training experience for you.

We are happy to offer an unconditional 30-day money-back-in-full guarantee. No risk for you. The content of the course is excellent, and this is a no-brainer for us, as we are certain you will love it.

Don't wait—enroll now and master the art of portfolio management! Acquire these skills and leap at the opportunity to set yourself apart from the crowd. Start learning today!

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Instructor Details

365 Careers

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of business, finance, data science and AI courses on Udemy. The company’s courses have been taken by more than 4,000,000 students in 210 countries. People working at world-class firms like Apple, PayPal, and Citibank have completed 365 Careers trainings.    

Currently, 365 focuses on the following topics on Udemy:    1) Finance – Finance fundamentals, Financial modeling in Excel, Valuation, Accounting, Capital budgeting, Financial statement analysis (FSA), Investment banking (IB), Leveraged buyout (LBO), Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Corporate budgeting, applying Python for Finance, Tesla valuation case study, CFA, ACCA, and CPA

2) Data science – Statistics, Mathematics, Probability, SQL, Python programming, Python for Finance, Business Intelligence, R, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Tableau, the integration of SQL and Tableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Credit Risk Modeling, and Credit Analytics, Data literacy, Product Management, Pandas, Numpy, Python Programming, Data Strategy

3) Entrepreneurship – Business Strategy, Management and HR Management, Marketing, Decision Making, Negotiation, and Persuasion, Tesla's Strategy and Marketing

4) Office productivity – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook

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Reviews

4.4

399 ratings on Udemy

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By Siddharth Kalra on 9/9/2026

It was not very descriptive- I would have loved if some working and practical applications were shown along with the course, and at some places, I felt the ideas didn't match with what's actually true- had to use a lot of surfing to get clarity - but overall topics covered were relevant - could be a great course if structured well along with the detailing

By José Luis Cruz Morales on 5/29/2026

This is such a great course, I learned a lot about how to manage my own portfolio and clarified many misunderstandings I had about technical analysis. I recommend it 100%

By Aleksandr Timarov on 9/19/2025

The man is genius! I did not expect to learn so much practical stuff and definitely did not have a slightest idea that it is possible to find the weights in optimal portfolio consisting of 5+ securities in Excel in a fast and simple way. Before taking this course I was sure that can be done only using Python. Excellent job, definitely will take a look to another courses of this guy!

By Balaraman Sriram on 9/14/2025

the animation based video is good and key points can be easily reviewed. language used is simple and easy to understand and motivating to learn further. thank you.

By Vaibhav Kabra on 8/16/2025

A This is a full course covering entire security analysis and Portfoilio management course. B. Very simple language and lucid explanation. C. Trainer and content designer should be appreciated for the fantastic job of designing and delivering the course in simple and easy understand language despite of the complexity of subject. No doubt course is really very good for a beginner in this field, however it has certain areas of improvement such as: 1. I found course name Misleading : This is more of the theoretical course on Portfolio Management and Course Name and objectives emphasises on using excel for construction and optimization of portfolio. I was disappointed as I was expecting that course would deal on construction and optimisation of portfolio using the all complex theories explained in PPT. 2.Course has limited the examples to only 2-3 securities, objective could be to keep it simple, however could have covered some complexities by adding Bonds or Commodities, (leave AI) in excel examples used. 3. This is more of a theoretical course on Security analysis & Portfolio Management as only a few practical aspects of portfolio construction was included in excel, could have been better like if take an example of 5-6 securities (equity and Bonds) + at least Gold and would have created excel dashboard to analyse the portfolio performance (risk and return measures) at two different point of time. 4. Course could have been shorter if not discussed the entire theoretical concepts or could be divided in multiple short courses and focused on each sub section with more practical examples. 5. Could not find the practice problems as promised at different point in course. 6. Udemy can provide a 3x or higher playback speed as this may help complete such long course quickly, if objective is just refreshing the concepts. Kindly ignore the probably a harsh tone, the objective was to provide constructive feedback. Surely ready to contribute in case author wants to further enhance the course to make it more practical.

By Gyanesh Shukla on 3/14/2025

It was great but lacks more depth . In limited time of 6.5 Hours have used very well to build foundation. Happy to see the efforts done to prepare it.

By Emmanuel Regis MOUELLE on 3/12/2025

Good refresh of technical concepts. The often complicated concepts are explained in a very simple way.

By Bantupalli Akanksha on 4/8/2024

You could have added how to valuate a bond. How bond can be included in a portfolio. And find the risk and return of the portfolio that has bond in it.

By Chithrage Chanaka Uditha Sandaruwan on 1/7/2024

It was very good, and thank you for the course. I completed it because I love portfolio management, however, I would appreciate if you could show me how to allocate my stocks using Treyor's Ratio and Jensen's Alpha with practical examples in the future.

By Alvaro Correa on 1/3/2024

The course has some minor errors, but its ok... Still dont know why I need to learnd matrices... but ok

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Overall Score : 88 / 100