25 Best Investment Strategies Courses Online
We compared 25 Investment Strategies courses currently listed on Coursera and edX, priced from $25.00 to $1,490.40. 15 come from a named university or institution, including New York Institute of Finance, Institute for Capacity Development and Corporate Finance Institute. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $25.00 – $1,490.40
- Providers
- Coursera, edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, matched to "investment strategies" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $25.00 to $1,490.40, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Financial Planning and Investment Strategies
Offered by EDUCBA
Master the fundamentals of financial planning, smart investing, and wealth management. Learn how to build financial security through effective savings, diversification, asset allocation, and tax-efficient investment stra...
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Mutual Fund Analysis and Investment Strategies
Offered by EDUCBA
Build practical expertise in mutual funds, SIP strategies, NAV calculation, portfolio analysis, risk evaluation, and fund accounting operations. This Mutual Funds Specialization helps learners develop investment-ready an...
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Market Risk, VaR & Investment Strategies
Offered by EDUCBA
Master financial risk management and investment strategies used by top professionals. Learn VaR, portfolio analysis, and hedge fund evaluation in one course. This course bridges the gap between quantitative risk modeling...
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Sustainable Finance: Leading Capital and Investment Strategies
Offered by CISL
Gain an in-depth understanding of the pressures facing the current financial system, and explore how sustainable finance strategies can create long-term value for business, society and the environment.
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Asset Liability Management
Offered by New York Institute of Finance
This course on Asset Liability Management provides an in-depth look at the strategies and practices essential for balancing an organization’s assets and liabilities to manage risks effectively. Through real-world example...
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Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models
Offered by Institute for Capacity Development
This online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Research Department, explains how to analyze the relation between public investment, growth, and public debt dynamics, using two dynamic str...
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Wealth Management
Offered by Corporate Finance Institute
This specialization provides early-career professionals and aspiring financial advisors with a practical foundation in financial planning and wealth management. Across six courses, learners explore key topics including f...
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Advanced Understanding of Stocks and Bonds
Offered by University of Michigan
This final course will cover more advanced aspects of bonds and stocks that will help you make smart personal decisions and develop a keen understanding of how governments and companies borrow from us. You will better un...
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Investment and Portfolio Management
Offered by Rice University
In this four-course Specialization, you’ll learn the essential skills of portfolio management and personal investing. All investors – from the largest wealth funds to the smallest individual investors – share common issu...
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Finance for Technical Managers
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In Finance for Technical Managers, you will explore the fundamental principles of financial management. Topics include understanding and interpreting a company’s financial statements, the time value of money and its role...
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Investment Management
Offered by University of Geneva
In this Specialization, you will understand how investment strategies are designed to reach financial goals in a global context. You will learn the theory that underlies strong investment decisions, as well as practical,...
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FinTech: Finance Industry Transformation and Regulation
Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Objective This Specialization is intended for finance professional who are seeking to develop skills and understanding of FinTech. Through these four courses, you will cover FinTech foundations and overview, FinTech secu...
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Biases and Portfolio Selection
Offered by Rice University
Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the v...
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RiskWise: Annuities and Income
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Turning lifetime savings into reliable retirement income is one of the most complex challenges in financial planning. In this course, you’ll explore how annuities work as insurance‑based contracts designed to support ret...
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Financial Planning Principles
Offered by Corporate Finance Institute
Achieving financial goals requires two key efforts: planning and process. Understanding the principles of financial planning means you will know the holistic lifecycle of a client’s financial needs – what they need to pl...
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Applying Data Analytics in Finance
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course introduces an overview of financial analytics. You will learn why, when, and how to apply financial analytics in real-world situations. You will explore techniques to analyze time series data and how to evalu...
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Machine Learning for Smart Beta
Offered by Sungkyunkwan University
In this 4 week course, you will learn about Smart Beta products. Smart betas products have the characteristics of both passive investment(having predetermined rules) and active investments(allows for factor investment)....
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Portfolio Management for Retail Clients
Offered by Corporate Finance Institute
Being a portfolio manager is not only reserved for the institutional advisor. There is an equally challenging and in-demand role on the retail side, where portfolio managers invest the funds of individuals and families....
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First Steps in Making the Business Case for Sustainability
Offered by University of Colorado System
The Business School at the University of Colorado Denver wants to help you become a change agent for sustainable business. We hope that with the skills and concepts you gain from this specialization that you will help yo...
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Behavioral Finance
Offered by Duke University
We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions wi...
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Meeting Investors' Goals
Offered by University of Geneva
In this course, you will dive into the concepts of rationality and irrationality and understand how they impact our investment decisions and what the consequences can be at the market level. You will first explore the di...
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The Materiality of ESG Factors
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
This specialization will provide learners with the fundamentals and history of ESG investing, and a close examination of the set of investment approaches that are informed by environmental, social and, governance factors...
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Trade & investment: evidence-based policies for development
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam
This MOOC prepares students that want to analyse trade and investment policies of developing countries and emerging markets. We couch you for the task of giving evidence-based policy. For students interested in policy ad...
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Finance for Decision-Making
Offered by S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
This comprehensive course is specifically designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the financial decision-making process in modern corporations. With a focus on increasing shareholder and firm value, the cour...
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Land, Agriculture, and Alternative Investing
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This specialization explores the intersection of land, agriculture, and alternative investing—equipping learners with the tools to build, manage, and transfer wealth using real assets. Through six expert-led courses, lea...
$49.00listed price
Best Investment Strategies Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Planning and Investment Strategies | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Mutual Fund Analysis and Investment Strategies | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Market Risk, VaR & Investment Strategies | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Sustainable Finance: Leading Capital and Investment Strategies | edX | CISL | — | View → |
| 5 | Asset Liability Management | edX | New York Institute of Finance | $1,490.40 | View → |
| 6 | Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models | edX | Institute for Capacity Development | $25.00 | View → |
| 7 | Wealth Management | Coursera | Corporate Finance Institute | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Advanced Understanding of Stocks and Bonds | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Investment and Portfolio Management | Coursera | Rice University | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Finance for Technical Managers | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $79.00 | View → |
| 11 | Investment Management | Coursera | University of Geneva | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | FinTech: Finance Industry Transformation and Regulation | Coursera | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Biases and Portfolio Selection | Coursera | Rice University | $79.00 | View → |
| 14 | RiskWise: Annuities and Income | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Financial Planning Principles | Coursera | Corporate Finance Institute | $49.00 | View → |
| 16 | Applying Data Analytics in Finance | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 17 | Machine Learning for Smart Beta | Coursera | Sungkyunkwan University | $49.00 | View → |
| 18 | Portfolio Management for Retail Clients | Coursera | Corporate Finance Institute | $49.00 | View → |
| 19 | First Steps in Making the Business Case for Sustainability | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $79.00 | View → |
| 20 | Behavioral Finance | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 21 | Meeting Investors' Goals | Coursera | University of Geneva | $79.00 | View → |
| 22 | The Materiality of ESG Factors | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $79.00 | View → |
| 23 | Trade & investment: evidence-based policies for development | Coursera | Erasmus University Rotterdam | $49.00 | View → |
| 24 | Finance for Decision-Making | Coursera | S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research | $49.00 | View → |
| 25 | Land, Agriculture, and Alternative Investing | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 24 priced courses on this page run from $25.00 to $1,490.40, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $1,465.40. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 15 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including New York Institute of Finance, Institute for Capacity Development and Corporate Finance Institute — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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