Business & EntrepreneurshipSelf-pacedBeginner
Verification identifier TMC-2026-00033
What we found
TrustMyCourse opened the published course directly. All six advertised weeks were present with their sections, running from why people invest through asset classes, portfolio theory including the capital asset pricing model, pensions and behavioural finance, each week closing with a quiz. The course page states it is free and can be started without signing up, and the teaching text and downloadable resources were readable without an account. Quizzes, progress tracking and the free statement of participation require a free account, which the page states before starting. Around twenty-four hours of study at introductory level.
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Reviewer access: Confirmed
A twenty-four hour course on investing, published by a university rather than by a firm selling a product, which is unusual in this subject and the main reason to prefer it. Free from The Open University, startable without signing up, with a free statement of participation on completion.
People deciding what to do with their own savings, taught by a university rather than by a firm selling a product.
Recorded from the provider’s stated audience and the level of the material reviewed.
The review
Verified against the course and public offer as they stood on . Verification describes what was reviewed on that date, not every later version of it.
The modules, lessons and materials advertised on the sales page are the ones actually delivered inside the course.
All six advertised weeks were present with their named sections and per-week quizzes, matching the course contents page.
The person or company selling the course is identifiable and confirmed to control the course being verified.
Published by The Open University on its own OpenLearn domain.
The stated platform, access method and access duration work as described for a paying learner.
Teaching text and downloadable resources readable without an account; the page states the course can be started right now without signing up. Quizzes, progress tracking and the free statement of participation require a free account, which is stated before starting.
Public marketing is checked for outcome guarantees the course cannot support, such as promised income, results or employment.
No claim about investment returns or outcomes. The course is presented as education rather than as advice.
The advertised price, billing terms, additional purchases and refund policy are stated clearly and consistently.
The course page states "Free course", with a free statement of participation on completion.
Any promised feedback, community access or update schedule is described accurately on the sales page.
TrustMyCourse does not sell this course, does not rank it against others, and publishes no rating or score for it.
The course
Summarised by TrustMyCourse from the material reviewed. Wording is our own, not the provider’s.
Savings behaviour, long-term perspective and what drives equity markets.
Savings products, shares, bonds and commodities compared.
Time horizons, diversification, the capital asset pricing model and efficient markets.
Investor behaviour, relative returns and historic returns by asset class.
Occupational pensions, calculating pension income and the 2015 reforms.
Behaviour and risk, bounded rationality and contagion, with the end of course quiz.
Provider
The Open University
A UK university publishing several hundred free courses through its OpenLearn platform, most startable without an account.
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