Brandeis University

    FIN 253A: Advanced Quantitative Analysis in Finance

    Instructor: International Business School Instructors
    Prerequisites: FIN 201a, FIN 204a, and FIN 215f.
    Course Description: <b>Course will meet M, W, Th 6:30 PM–9:00 PM (ET)</b><br>
    Advanced Quantitative Analysis in Finance is a course to introduce students to a broad range of topics related to using quantitative models and the latest financial technologies to generate time value of money via a term structure, trading signals, price instruments, calculate/manage risks and the creation of an algorithmic trading application. This course is designed to be relevant to any finance student that wishes to build a skillset that can harness the power of the computer, computer science, and quantitative analysis to various applications in finance. A set of these applications in finance that are relevant are time series analysis and forecasting, determining trading signals from an exchange limit order book, security pricing using Monte Carlo simulation, building a term structure of interest rates, algorithmic programming, and risk analysis.<br>
    Instructor: Ahmad Namini<br>
    <b>Instruction for this course will be offered both remotely and in a hybrid format. Meeting times for this course are listed in the schedule of classes (in ET).</b>
    </br><b>Course will meet M, W, Th 6:30 PM–9:00 PM (ET)</b>
    Session: Session II
    Day: M, W, Th
    Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
    Credit Hours: 4 Credits
    Course Format: 2151
    Brandeis Graduation Requirement Fulfilled:
    Enrollment Limit: 25 students
    Course Classification: Available for Graduate Credit
    Course Tuition: $3,100
    Course Fees: None
    Open to High School Students: No