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How to Download Stock Prices into Google Spreadsheets

This post provides an alternative to downloading stock prices in excel, for those who prefer to manage their portfolio in Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets have become quite powerful and can be...

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How to Download Options Prices in Excel

We have earlier discussed about downloading stock quotes in excel. You can do this in many ways such as from yahoo finance, or using the MarketXLS add-in that helps you seamlessly integrate live stock...

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Top Investing Tools to Help you Excel at Investing

Products to help you learn, explore, and excel at investing and managing your money. Hello Money Hello Money lets you design your portfolio from 24,000+ funds and stocks. Hello Money allows you to...

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How to Get Historical Bond Prices and Yields Data?

While we know that there are many sources to get the historical prices for stocks and mutual funds such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance, getting the historical bond prices and yield data is more...

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What is CEF Expense Ratio and how is it calculated?

A CEF refers to a close-end fund, which is a registered investment company similar to a mutual fund, unit investment trust or an exchange-traded fund. Just like mutual funds, the closed-ended funds...

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What is a Tear Sheet?

In stock markets, a tear sheet is generally referred to the Standard & Poor’s summary sheet for public companies. These sheets provide up-to-date information about companies including their...

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Anatomy of a Perfect Stock Report

For an equity investor, one of the most important sources of information while making investment decisions is a stock report, also known by many other names such as equity research report. You would...

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How to Compare Mutual Fund Performance

Mutual funds are a very effective way for small investors to get exposure to financial markets. Rather than investing in individual equities and bonds, a mutual fund investor gets access to a...

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New eBook – Introduction to Corporate Finance

We are glad to announce that our new ebook “Introduction to Corporate Finance” is now available on Amazon Kindle Stores. This Kindle ebook introduces the reader to the world of corporate finance and...

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CFA Level I – Study Notes and Question Bank

CFA Level I Authority is Finance Train’s comprehensive training program to help you pass the CFA Level I exam in the most efficient way. As a part of CFA Level I Authority you will have access to all...

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Introduction to Corporate Finance (eBook)

This ebook will teach you the fundamentals of how corporates make their investing and financing decisions. You will learn about the process of capital budgeting, i.e., the process by which the...

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CFA Level 1® Authority

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How to Build a Financial Model

Welcome to this course on how to build a financial model. The objective of this course is to teach you the fundamentals of how to build a financial model in the most efficient way. The lessons in this...

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Financial Modelling: Setup Excel for Productivity

This is the first part in our course on how to build simple, readable and better financial models. The first step in building a successful financial model is to setup your excel environment for...

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Financial Modelling: Excel Shortcuts You Must Know

In the previous lesson, we learned about how to setup excel for productivity. We will now look at the important and commonly used shortcuts in excel that can speedup your financial modelling work....

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Financial Modelling: Writing Formulas in Excel – Part 1

In the previous lesson, we looked at the excel keyboard shortcuts that you must know to become productive with excel. The next thing we will look at is how to write effective formulas. This is an...

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Financial Reporting and Analysis (eBook)

Welcome to Finance Train’s ebook on ‘Financial Report and Analysis’. This ebook will teach you the general principles of financial reporting and the techniques used for analyzing financial reports. We...

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MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

Tony Robbins is an American mentor, life coach and author of self-help books. As a life coach, he has helped millions of people shape their lives. According to him money, even though an extract thing,...

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Wiley CFA Level I – 11th Hour Guide for 2015

A thorough round-up of key concepts before the exam is a must for every test-taker. This is where the Wiley’s 11th Hour Guide scores big marks. The book is designed to help CFA Level 1 exam takers to...

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All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs

Esme Faerber introduces Bonds in depth to the reader in her book – All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds and Bond ETFs. The book promises to help the reader diversify their bond portfolio by understanding...

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