How Global Markets Shape Your Financial Future

Location: Stockholm

Type: Elective Course

Term: Semester

About this course

This course introduces the essentials of investing and financial decision-making for students of all backgrounds. It examines how global markets influence everyday choices such as saving, housing, retirement, and careers. Students gain practical tools to navigate an increasingly complex economy while exploring key topics including inflation, interest rates, economic growth, unemployment, and central bank policy. The course covers core concepts in investment and portfolio management, such as risk-return trade-offs, diversification, optimization, and asset pricing. Combining theory with practice, students analyse real data, complete Excel simulations, and compare European and U.S. markets, developing skills to understand financial systems and make informed decisions.

Syllabus

Spring 2027

This is a draft syllabus. The final syllabus will be available here a few days prior to the new course’s first start date.

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Greger Wahlstedt

MBA (Finance, Manchester Business School) and CEFA (Certified European Financial Analyst) from Stockholm School of Economics. Greger has been working for more than 30 years in the financial markets. He has a solid experience as head of large asset management units; 14 years as head of Handelsbanken’s fixed income fund management and asset allocation, as well as heading the investment division at the swedish central bank (Riksbanken) in charge of the management of the gold and foreign exchange reserves. Originally, an economist, but he has also worked as quant analyst as well as senior sales in structured derivatives and Private Banking at Handelsbanken. He is an appreciated teacher in economics, bond markets and interest rate products, among other things. Since 2010 he is a subconsultant to Finanskompetens and educates Investment advisors in finance, financial markets and portfolio theory for the SwedSec license. Examples of such employees who need that licence can be investment advisors, brokers, managers, analysts, compliance officers, risk managers and management. Greger has been a member of the Credit Market group in The Swedish Society of Financial Analysts (SFF) for 20 years. With DIS Stockholm since 2017.