Quantitative Financial Analysis for Technology-Driven Investment Decisions

Catalog description

An introduction to the most important concepts used in quantitative finance. Students will learn to build practical financial models using MS Excel spreadsheets. 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 has a practical focus—how to analyze prices of stocks, bonds, options and other financial instruments using the types of computationally sophisticated tools in wide use today.