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This course is designed as an introduction to the practice of institutional investment management, aimed at liberal arts majors. We will study a range of multidisciplinary sources in order to better understand how surprisingly multifaceted and rich the world of investing really is. Financial markets are information processing technologies that link together current events, science, engineering, medicine, politics, sports and entertainment, culture and society. To survive and thrive as an investor in financial markets, humans must embark on a journey of lifelong learning, using both their right and left brains to trace patterns across wildly different fields, and across time in a dynamic world. Traditional courses in financial economics necessarily leave these “distribution requirements” to other departments. This course is intended to help guide students to tie together some of these disparate threads.