Quantitative Financial Analysis for Technology-Driven Investment Decisions

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In this introductory quantitative finance course, students will learn to build practical financial models using MS Excel spreadsheets. Investment banks, hedge funds, and money managers make buy and sell decisions based on computational models. This course starts with the most basic, and most important, portfolio and investment models used to evaluate risk and identify profit opportunities. Using Excel, students will learn how to build these models themselves, and to understand the decision-making inputs used by professional investors. The course's practical focus utilizes today's computationally sophisticated tools to analyze stock prices, bonds, options, and other financial instruments.