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Data-Driven Financial Models - DIKU

Course provider

Københavns Universitet

Location

  • Copenhagen

Description

The course gives the student a thorough introduction to financial theory, financial markets and products. Besides theory, students will be introduced to practical problems faced by Financial Engineers through a number of real world case studies. The course will prepare the student to take other advanced courses within finance. The students who are interested in using big data in financial markets should consider taking this course.

We will cover some of the following subjects:
- Introduction to finance and Matlab
- Delineating Efficient Portfolio and calculate the Efficient Frontier
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
- Interest rate theory, bonds and management of bond portfolios
- Empirical tests of the CAPM
- Evaluation of portfolio performance

Københavns Universitet

Practical information

Course provider

Københavns Universitet

Location

  • Copenhagen

Course provider contact information

Contact the study administration
E-mail: efteruddannelse@science.ku.dk
Tel.:35 33 35 33

ECTS credits

7,5

About ECTS Credits
About ECTS points ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System. This is a system that can be used for credit transfer within higher education abroad or in Denmark.

Course language

English

Offered to

Autumn

Deadline

Oct. 16, 2024

Current level of education

Master/Kandidat

Course duration

Kursusstart den 18. november 2024.

Forløb: November - januar.

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