Please note: This extended course (12 month access) is only visible and available to Rask Invest members, please make sure you navigate to your account page to access it!
This online course includes the full Rask Value Investor Workshop material and curriculum. The Value Investor Workshop is designed for:
- Finance students – who want to ace an interview and ‘talk the talk’ (but also see how research is approached in the real world)
- Private investors – this program will round out the experience that comes with years of part-time investing
- Finance professionals – professional analysts and portfolio managers have taken this course to improve their skills and knowledge (your boss might even pay for it!)
- Career changers – this program assumes some knowledge but not much, offering a great insight for those transition to a finance or investment role
- Business owners, executives and managers – good businesses attract good investors and good business people know what makes a good investment opportunity, therefore the benefits from this program will be two-fold for business owners and managers
The concepts discussed in this program are of an ‘advanced’ level. However, most of the lessons and topics will be manageable and understandable by people who have been investing in some form for, say, 12 months or more.
The technical difficulty of the program increases as you go, meaning the first lessons are very approachable and are arguably the most valuable.
Towards the end of the program, students finish with a walk-through of the valuation process, modelling techniques and real-world approaches to what we’re taught in academia.
A basic level of accounting or financial statements is assumed. For example, if you understand the basic flow from top to bottom of an income statement (e.g. revenue minus costs equals gross profit) and/or you know the basic differences between the cash flow statement and income statement (i.e. one is cash, the other uses accrual accounting) — that will be enough to get by in this program.
While that may seem like a low (or high!) hurdle for some, almost everyone can benefit from this program because we cover so much that’s not necessarily about financial statements and math. Here are the high-level topics covered in the program:
- Investment philosophy
- Psychology & essential mental models for long-term investing
- Building your own investment process from the ground up
- Assessing a businesses competitive advantage & moat
- Management incentives, bias & culture (and how to test it)
- Common accounting traps & hidden opportunities in financial statements
- Valuation & modeling, and
- Portfolio management
