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ACFM 374. Quantitative Investment Strategies. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
This course explores quantitative investment strategies used by hedge funds. Students learn to use python and data science techniques to backtest and implement several of the most successful investment strategies. The course also covers issues related to performance measurement, transaction costs, risk management and portfolio construction. Prerequisite: ACFM 271 or ACFM 362. Junior/Senior only.

Finance

https://coursecatalog.bucknell.edu/collegeofmanagementcurricula/areasofstudy/accountingandfinancialmanagement/finance/
Finance majors will experience the best of theoretical, applied, technical and behavioral finance across a broad range of courses. The foundation of their knowledge will be built in core finance and accounting classes, after which they will choose from a range of electives, including courses in the practical application of derivatives, behavioral finance, ESG investing, financial statement analysis, entrepreneurial finance and global finance. Students can also enroll in additional accounting, economics and math courses to support their finance curriculum. Finance majors will also draw upon everything an excellent liberal arts university has to offer in applying a critical lens to solving questions of capital deployment. Students also receive first-hand experience with company finance via the Freeman College of Management’s MGMT 101 course.