3 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2021–22 (Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2122/COURSE/course-CFM.html
CFM 101Introduction to Financial Markets and Data Analytics
This course introduces financial markets and institutions, commonly used financial data, and data schema and visualization therein. It covers fundamental functions of financial institutions and their usage of data, and basic financial data management techniques. The course will focus on buy side institutions and stock market data.
Prereq: Computing and Financial Management students. Antireq: AFM 121
This course covers financial data analytics in the areas of asset pricing, securities trading, and portfolio management. It covers data usage and application in basic testing of asset pricing theories, trading algorithms and strategies, back-testing techniques, and aspects of portfolio management associated with trading strategies.
This course introduces current topics in financial technology. Students will apply data analytics or general computational concepts to gain a better understanding of new financial technology.
Prereq: CFM 301; Computing and Financial Management students