The purpose of Getting Serious is to provide you with added depth of educational materials beyond what you receive in the site's Glossary, FAQ's, demos, and modules themselves. Getting Serious will include the following:

• Underlying Financial Concepts and Theory - A deeper, more comprehensive presentation of the underlying financial concepts and theory behind FinPortfolio and its suite of portfolio analysis and management tools:
  • FinPlan - Financial Planning
  • Strategic Asset Allocation (or Asset Allocation)
  • Asset Analysis
  • Asset Selection
  • Portfolio Optimization
  • Risk Analysis
  • Style Analysis
    
    
• How FinPortfolio Calculates - A presentation of the mathematical underpinnings of FinPortfolio's financial models.
  • Average Return
  • Expected Return
  • Variance
  • Return Volatility
  • Correlation
  • Sharpe Ratio
  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • R-squared
    
    
• Useful Resources - Links to useful resources in the area of finance and modern portfolio theory.

As always, we want to hear from you - Please let us know what you think of Getting Serious, and how we can make it more useful to you. If you know of any particularly useful resources that we do not link to or reference, please tell us what they are. 

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