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Bloomberg for Education · Three certificates · Completed May 2025

  1. Bloomberg Market Concepts

    May 2025 · 12 hours

    Economic indicators, currencies, fixed income, equities, and Bloomberg Terminal literacy.

    Certificate of Completion from Bloomberg for Education, awarded to Kyle Wisniewski for successfully completing the Bloomberg Market Concepts course
    Modules
    Economic Indicators
    The Primacy of GDP · Monitoring GDP · Forecasting GDP
    Currencies
    Currency Market Mechanics · Currency Valuation · Central Banks and Currencies · Currency Risk
    Fixed Income
    The Roots of the Bond Market · Bond Valuation Drivers · Central Bankers and Interest Rates · The Yield Curve and Why It Matters · Movements in the Yield Curve
    Equities
    Introducing the Stock Market · The Nature of Equities · Absolute Valuation · Relative Valuation
    Getting Started on the Terminal
    Using the Terminal · Analyzing the Market · Exploring the Equity Market · Discovering the Fixed Income Market · Building an Equity Portfolio
    Portfolio Management (optional)
    The portfolio manager's role · Investment research and ideation · Screening and portfolio creation · Historical performance analysis · Evaluating future risk
    Stated outcomes
    • A working reading of the four markets the core modules cover: economic indicators, currencies, fixed income, and equities.
    • Familiarity with more than 70 Bloomberg Terminal functions used across the course.
    • The certificate on completion of the four Core Concepts modules.

    From Bloomberg Market Concepts — MSF Resources, Vanderbilt University Libraries, accessed September 17, 2026; further detail from Available Certificates — Bloomberg Certificates (BCER), Boston University Libraries. The stated outcomes are paraphrased.

  2. Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals

    May 2025 · 6 hours

    Core mechanics of financial markets and instruments.

    Certificate of Completion from Bloomberg for Education, awarded to Kyle Wisniewski for successfully completing the Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals course
    Modules
    The Purpose of Investing
    Introduction to the Economy and Investing · Sources of Finance · Going Public
    Types of Investment
    The Financial System · Company Investments · Financial Risks
    Risk and Reward
    Fraud in the Financial Markets · The Media and the Financial Markets · The Importance of Regulation and Scrutiny
    Portfolio Management
    The Pathway to Portfolio Management · Managing a Portfolio for Clients · The Fundamentals of Finance
    Stated outcomes
    • How money flows through an economy.
    • Investment strategies that help individuals and businesses grow money while navigating risk.
    • What responsible investing is and what it offers individuals, businesses, and society.
    • Career paths in finance and the daily work of finance professionals.

    From Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals Certification Program — Students Guide (Bloomberg for Education, hosted by WU Vienna University Library), accessed September 17, 2026; further detail from Available Certificates — Bloomberg Certificates (BCER), Boston University Libraries. The stated outcomes are paraphrased.

  3. Bloomberg ESG

    May 2025 · 7 hours

    Environmental, social, and governance frameworks — how sustainability factors are measured, reported, and priced.

    Certificate of Completion from Bloomberg for Education, awarded to Kyle Wisniewski for successfully completing the Environmental, Social, and Governance course
    Modules
    Introduction to ESG and Sustainable Finance
    Environmental, social, and governance concepts within finance
    Researching and Adopting ESG
    Methods for investigating and implementing ESG strategies
    Negative Screening and Positive Screening
    Investment filtering on ESG criteria — exclusion and positive selection
    ESG Integration – Fixed Income
    Applying ESG factors to fixed-income investing
    ESG Integration – Equities
    Applying ESG factors to equity investing
    Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism
    Governance structures · Shareholder engagement and activism
    Reporting Sustainability Activities
    Preparing sustainability reports for regulators
    Stated outcomes
    • Describe ESG trends and strategies.
    • Analyze how asset managers integrate ESG into investment decisions.
    • Explain shareholder activism and its tactics.
    • Practice tasks from the ESG investment process, including reporting for regulators.

    From Available Certificates — Bloomberg Certificates (BCER), Boston University Libraries, accessed September 17, 2026; further detail from Introducing… Bloomberg Environmental Social Governance (ESG), Cranfield University Library. The stated outcomes are paraphrased.