This is the code repository for Quantitative Finance with R [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
With the ever-changing financial environment in the global market, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms are always on the lookout for professionals able to identify profitable investment opportunities and manage risk. If you are interested in Quantitative Finance, especially in modern portfolio theory and risk management, then this is the perfect course for you.
Solving complex quantitative finance tasks becomes much easier with hands-on coding implementations. This course mixes important theoretical steps in a practical way to enhance your financial IQ in your day-to-day activities.
By the end of the course, you'll be comfortable using R and its associated libraries to solve any problem associated with Quantitative Finance without getting stressed; in short, you'll be solving the complex challenges that portfolio and risk managers face every day.
- A solid understanding of how to analyze—with a quantitative mindset—the most important financial products such as equities, derivatives, and bonds
- Use statistical analysis to find hidden insights into financial data used in financial models and strategies
- Diversify your portfolio with hedging and eliminate unwanted risk during times of market volatility
- Price any financial instrument
- Go safe with fixed income securities by exploring the bond market
- Analyze financial assets to find their Return On Investment (ROI)
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Markowitz's modern portfolio theory and the ability of applying it using real data with R
- Build your own profit-making strategy with advanced financial techniques to measure, predict and manage risk
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
This course expects viewers to have some basic knowledge of financial markets and a good understanding of R programming. However, they need not have any knowledge of quantitative finance or working with financial data.
If you're new to quantitative finance and R is your go-to language, this is your perfect course.
This course has the following software requirements:
RStudio