Finance - Trading Strategies

Catalog description

This course provides an academic treatment of equity trading strategies used by sophisticated investors. It shows how to implement these strategies, discusses why they have produced positive risk-adjusted returns in the past, and under what circumstances they may have a chance of outperforming in the future. The course combines academic research, institutional facts, and practical insights about topics such as investor psychology, active and passive investments, risk-adjusted performance measures, equity strategies, global macro investing, arbitrage strategies, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Prerequisite: FIN 410 or FIN 411.