Raj Sharma serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department at Golden Gate University. His advanced level course, “Strategies for Fundamental Equity Investing – A Practitioner’s Perspective” focuses on techniques to evaluate financial and strategic strengths of corporations. The coursework will allow a hands-on look into finding and evaluating publicly traded companies for long-term investing. The coursework and case studies will reveal the time-tested money management techniques of successful investors.

Students learn to pick excellent companies that are most likely to succeed in the long-term and are available at reasonable to cheap valuations. The student will learn about techniques of valuation used by a host of successful money managers and analysts in the hedge fund and mutual fund industries. Students will learn about fundamental bottoms-up analysis of companies using 10-Ks, 10-Qs, Value Line research, NYTimes and Wall Street Journal articles and using information gathered from conversations with managements of companies. Students will learn to create their own personal portfolios of stocks.

In the past, several students of this class have secured analyst positions in leading buy-side and sell-side investment firms.

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