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Finance 456: Asset Management Practicum - Spring
Finance 457: Asset Management Practicum - Fall
Finance 458: Asset Management Practicum - Winter

Students enrolled in this sequence of courses manage a portion of the Kellogg School’s endowment. The courses combine investment theory with exposure to leading practitioners. Students will rotate across roles of industry analysts, traders, quantitative analysts, and portfolio managers. All students are required to take two full quarters of credit in the practicum, and can take up to three quarters. Students completing two quarters of the practicum have the option of registering for a third quarter.

Finance 456: Asset Management Practicum - Spring

Prerequisites for 456: Permission of instructor;
FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.

Co-requisites:

1) For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously registered for one of the following classes: FINC 442: Financial Decisions; FINC 444: Value Investing; FINC 463: Security Analysis; FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance; ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis (or have the requirement waived by Professor Vincent).

2) Before graduation: either FINC-950 (Capital Markets) or FINC-465 (Derivative Markets I).


Finance 457: Asset Management Practicum - Fall
Prerequisites for 457: Permission of instructor; FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.

Co-requisites:

1) For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously registered for one of the following classes: FINC 442: Financial Decisions; FINC 444: Value Investing; FINC 463: Security Analysis; FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance; ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis (or have the requirement waived by Professor Vincent).

2) Before graduation: either FINC-950 (Capital Markets) or FINC-465 (Derivative Markets I).


Finance 458: Asset Management Practicum - Winter

Prerequisites for 458: Permission of instructor; FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.

Co-requisites:

1) For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously registered for one of the following classes: FINC 442: Financial Decisions; FINC 444: Value Investing; FINC 463: Security Analysis; FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance; ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis (or have the requirement waived by Professor Vincent).

2) Before graduation: either FINC-950 (Capital Markets) or FINC-465 (Derivative Markets I).


Related Courses

Portfolio Management:     
FINC-460
FINC-450
 

Investments
Capital Markets

     
Equity/Firm Valuation:    

FINC-442
FINC-444
FINC-463
FINC-910

 

Financial Decisions
Value Investing
Security Analysis
Asset Management Lab

     
Fixed Income:    
FINC-451   Money Markets and the Fed
     
Derivatives:    
FINC-465   Derivative Markets
     
Venture Capital/Private Equity:
FINC-445
FINC-477
FINC-615
FINC-639
FINC-931
 
     
Tax Strategy:    
FINC-447     Financial Strategy and Tax
     
Real Estate:    
FINC-454
  Real Estate Finance and Investments
FINC-455   Applied Real Estate Finance and Investments
     
Financial Reporting:    
ACCT-451
ACCT-452
  Financial Reporting and Analysis
Issues in Financial Reporting
     
Sales and Trading:    
FINC-461   Investment Banking
     
Macroeconomics:    
FINC-473   Macroeconomic Policy and Global Capital Markets
     
Statistical Methods/Financial Modeling:
FINC-940-5
OPNS-450-0
  Financial Modeling for Leveraged Buyout Transactions
Analytical Decision Modeling on Spreadsheets
     
 
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