Foundations Track
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Welcome to the world's largest Masters Program
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in Financial Engineering.
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You're about to embark on a journey that will
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take you across a range of disciplines.
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You'll work through a practician-oriented curriculum for
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Financial Engineers that will help you
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formulate and solve problems as well
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as recommend and implement solutions in finance
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and related fields.
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You may be excited that the program is free, but keep in
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mind that time is money and you will spend a
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considerable amount of time
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and effort
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working through this rigorous content.
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For those of you who progress through all 10
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courses, you will experience a Master's
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Program that is professionally designed and
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richly illustrated.
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With insights from interdisciplinary fields and
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cutting-edge tools to prepare
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you for a 21st century marketplace.
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This program isn't simply combining
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classes from several departments. The content
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is specifically designed for Financial Engineers.
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For example, the Financial Econometrics
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course focuses on time series
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econometric methods that are of
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particular interest to FEs, like studying stock
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returns or volatility models.
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The Machine Learning in Finance course focuses on
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finding patterns and securities that
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can be used for building and back testing trading strategies.
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The Portfolio Management course goes above and
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beyond what an MBA student would learn because as
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an FE, you'll be learning quite a bit
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of mathematics and optimization that empower
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you to use more sophisticated methodology to
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construct portfolios.
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The first track of the program is the Foundations
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Track, which consists of two courses.
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Financial Markets and Financial Data.
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Financial Markets will cover all the concepts that you'll
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see in the Master's Program.
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Think of these concepts as characters that reoccur
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not just in this course, but throughout the
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entire program.
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These concepts include credit risk
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in financing, volatility and
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correlation,
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leverage and non-linearity, regulation
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and liquidity and model
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failure and financial crises.
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The Financial Data course will illustrate those
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concepts by having you use real-world
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data and running existing Jupyter notebooks
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to visualize and summarize
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these concepts.
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As you work through the code examples, please do
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not assume you're done when the code runs and you get output.
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For a programmer that might be the end of the job, but for an FE
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that's just one piece of the puzzle.
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You'll also need to apply the results in a
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meaningful way to solve financial problems. In fact,
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the ideas you'll see in the very first course
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are reinforced throughout the entire program in ways
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that are meant to build your critical thinking skills
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using analysis, problem solving,
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evaluation and decision
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making.
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So, please work hard, ask questions and
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collaborate with your peers.
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They will be some of your best learning partners and become
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your colleagues and friends.
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Do all this and you'll be setting yourself up for success.
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Let's begin!
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