Overview

Asset Classes and Financial Markets Course Overview

Understanding the landscape that you work in is a foundational part of success. After all, how can you possibly give financial advisory services without knowing financial markets?

As a financial planner or wealth management professional, you need to know financial markets and asset classes like the back of your hand. In this course, we give you an overview of financial markets – what they are, who they serve, and why a healthy one is so important for the global economy – and the three primary asset classes in them.

  

Asset Classes and Financial Markets Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
  • Explain what financial markets are and their purpose
  • Navigate the major asset classes and identify their characteristics and purpose
  • Identify the key financial products in each asset class that financial planners and wealth managers most often encounter
  • Interpret real market data and formulate an opinion on the health of financial market conditions


Who Should Take This Course?

This Asset Classes and Financial Markets course is for anyone interested in becoming their own finance professional first. This course is designed as a primer to introduce all the foundational concepts you need to understand to navigate topics in financial planning and wealth management.

Asset Classes and Financial Markets

4.8
Led by Mark R.

Level 2

Approx 2.5h to complete

100% online and self-paced

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This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Financial Planning & Wealth Management Professional (FPWMP™) Certification

  • Skills Learned Financial Learning, Business Development, Investment Management, Practice Management, Relationship Management
  • Career Prep Financial Planner, Investment Advisor, Portfolio Manager

What Our Members Say

Very Interesting
The course is interesting and provides various aspects on different asst classes and how you can allocate them

Tinashe Murindagomo

Keep learning
Keep learning and you will be paid off some time in the near future.

Atinafu Asefa

Great comprehensive intro to markets and asset classes
If you're new to the industry, it's a fantastic primer on the capital markets. If you already have some experience, it serves as a helpful refresher before diving into more technical content.

Akweli Parker

Detailed and precise
Detailed and precise

Mustapha Ibrahim

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Students must complete all the video lessons, quizzes, and final assessments in each course. You can retake the assessments as many times as necessary until you reach an 80% passing grade. For more information on how to earn a course certificate, click HERE.
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Students are required to complete an online assessment (Multiple choice questions, Fill-in-the-Blanks, and Excel Questions) at the end of each course. You can take the exams on your own schedule and will need to earn at least 80% to pass the course and earn your certificate of course completion. Please note that course exams can be repeated as many times as you need. Students are also required to complete the FMVA® final exam to earn their certification. How to Take a Qualified Assessment
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