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Develop practical skills and insights into the world of alternative investment management.

Take human bias out of the equation with automated trading. The Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme aims to give participants a comprehensive overview and understanding of the rules that drive successful algorithmic trading strategies. The programme is led by Nir Vulkan, Associate Professor of Business Economics at Oxford Saïd, a leading authority on applied research and teaching on hedge funds. The programme also features a host of guest experts leading the systematic trading industry.

Alternative Investments will equip you with the skills, confidence, and strategies to assess potential investment opportunities in private equity, hedge funds, and real estate, and enable you to leverage them to maximize value and diversify portfolios.

The Credential of Readiness (CORe) is our primer on the fundamentals of business thinking—a three-course online program designed to prepare you to participate fully in the business world. CORe was developed by HBS faculty members to instill a deep understanding of essential business concepts and problem-solving skills. Mastering the three CORe courses—Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting—will give you fluency in the language of business.

Leading with Finance is an online program designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the principles of finance – a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to key internal and external stakeholders.

This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting. Starting with the basics of recording transactions as journal entries and posting them to T accounts, you will learn how to prepare a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.

See the world through the lens of economics and gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy.

According to the Blockchain Marketing Course data from the Tech Company observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, there were about 600,000 jobs filled in digital marketing in Italy in mid-2022. This is an alarming figure, making one wonder about the saturation of the market and the impossibility of career development for newcomers. Supply has skyrocketed, making digital marketing a “profession like any other.”

Gain the insight and skills needed for investment analysis, valuation, and decision-making.

Improve your profit and purpose, guided by world-class faculty and experts.

This A Level course can be completed from home at your own pace from anywhere in the world. Students can enrol anytime 365 days a year and once registered can be studying within days. No set term times and no enrolment dates.

Driven by concrete computational problems in quantitative finance, this book provides aspiring quant developers with the numerical techniques and programming skills they need. The authors start from scratch, so the reader does not need any previous experience of C++.

The Black–Scholes option pricing model is the first and by far the best-known continuous-time mathematical model used in mathematical finance. Here, it provides a sufficiently complex, yet tractable, testbed for exploring the basic methodology of option pricing.

The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black–Scholes option pricing model. After developing the required martingale properties of this process, the construction of the integral and the Itô formula (proved in detail) become the centrepiece, both for theory and applications, and to provide concrete examples of stochastic differential equations used in finance.

It provides a clear treatment of the scope and limitations of mean-variance portfolio theory and introduces popular modern risk measures. Proofs are given in detail, assuming only modest mathematical background, but with attention to clarity and rigour.