Managing my investments

Welcome to Week 1 of Managing my investments. Martin Upton of the Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance at the Open University Business School, presents a summary of the subjects and issues that will be explored during the next six weeks. Martin is a specialist in personal and corporate finance, and will guide you through this free course. In this first week you will explore: the current features and recent record of personal investment activity the first building blocks for constructing an investment strategy the factors that determine the levels of interest rates – one key determinant of investment returns the driving forces of movements in share prices – another key determinant of investment returns.