Fall 2026

Investment Theory

Investment Theory covers securities markets, portfolio construction, and risk-return models.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Sebastien Plante3.6/5Jeremy Whitish3.6/5GARRISON SOLLIDAY

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.51 GPA, 75.8% A/AB (n=186 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.41 GPA, 64.4% A/AB (n=253 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.44 GPA, 65.8% A/AB (n=219 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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FINANCE/​ECON 300, (MATH 213 or 222) and (GEN BUS 307, 317, 656,ACT SCI 654, 655,ECON 400, 410,STAT/​MATH 310,STAT 312, or333 or concurrent enrollment) or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

ECON/FINANCE 320 used by

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Professors

Fall 2026

Sebastien Plante

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Raw average: 3.50/5 from 14 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.34 GPA, 58.8% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.48 GPA, 67.3% A/AB (n=107 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.36 GPA, 60.8% A/AB (n=143 letter grades).

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Raw average: 2.00/5 from 1 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.47 GPA, 69.1% A/AB (n=110 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.42 GPA, 62.2% A/AB (n=111 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JEREMY WHITISH is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SEBASTIEN PLANTE is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online (some classroom)61 / 6011
LEC 002Online (some classroom)58 / 6010
LEC 003Classroom Instruction58 / 608
LEC 004Classroom Instruction59 / 6014
LEC 005Online (some classroom)57 / 609
LEC 008Online Only63 / 600
LEC 001Online (some classroom)1 / 601
LEC 002Online (some classroom)1 / 600
LEC 003Classroom Instruction2 / 600
LEC 004Classroom Instruction1 / 541
LEC 005Online (some classroom)0 / 600
LEC 008Online Only0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.51 GPA, 75.8% A/AB (n=186 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.41 GPA, 64.4% A/AB (n=253 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.44 GPA, 65.8% A/AB (n=219 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Securities markets structure and functioning.
  • Portfolio construction.
  • Risk and expected return tradeoff models.

Skills

  • Understanding securities market structure and functioning.
  • Portfolio construction principles.
  • Modeling risk and expected return tradeoffs.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.09 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
ECON/FINANCE 320 · Fall 2026

Investment Theory

Recorded 2026-09-07
ECON/FINANCE 320 · Fall 2026

Investment Theory

Recorded 2026-09-07
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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