Philippe Cote
Contact
Full Executive Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Finance
- pcote@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4460
- Address
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2-29C Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2R6
Courses
FIN 440 - Commodities Analytics and Trading
This course reflects the aspects of a trader development program in industry with a strong trading analytics base consistent with today's marketplace requirements. You are expected to learn analytical concepts using the R language and become proficient in your ability to implement them with real world data. The skills set is transferable to any analytically based job, such as risk management, trading analytics, and/or quantitative trading including fundamentals. Prerequisites: FIN 412 and FIN 413.
FIN 450 - Applied Data Science in Finance I
This course provides data science skills that are needed to implement financial concepts and theories. Topics covered include data wrangling, visualization, web scraping, machine learning, and natural language processing. Students gain an ability to draw informed insights from data for identifying business's needs, and to articulate solutions with effective visualization supporting business communication and discussions. Prerequisites: FIN 301 and FIN 412
FIN 488 - Selected Topics in Finance
Normally restricted to third- and fourth-year Business students. Prerequisites: FIN 301 or consent of Department. Additional prerequisites may be required.
FIN 640 - Commodities Analytics and Trading
This course reflects the aspects of a trader development program in industry with a strong trading analytics base consistent with today's marketplace requirements. You are expected to learn analytical concepts using the R language and become proficient in your ability to implement them with real world data. The skill set is transferable to any analytically based job, such as risk management, trading analytics, and/or quantitative trading including fundamentals. Prerequisites: FIN 501. Corequisite: FIN 654.
FIN 654 - Risk Management
Futures, options, and other derivative securities. Markets, valuation models, application to risk management through hedging, and the application of pricing models to the valuation of financial contracts. Prerequisite: FIN 501 or FIN 503. It is recommended the student have credit in FIN 614.