SNC/UNC grade assessment.

Focuses on sector and investment research and analysis and foundational components of applied investing. After successful completion, a student should be able to perform basic equity research, analyze market sectors, analyze organizations financially and create financial models to value organizations.

Focuses on sector and investment research and analysis, foundational components of applied investing. After successfully completing this course, a student should be able to create financial models useful for sensitivity analysis, create financial models to value organizations, identify misvalued investment opportunities, and communicate an investment opportunity effectively.

Focuses on sector and investment research and analysis, foundational components of applied investing. After successfully completing this course, a student should be able to build complex scenario analysis models, utilize advanced valuation methods to value opportunities, utilize statistics to conduct factor analysis, utilize alternative data and artificial intelligence, and analyze the AIIM portfolios.

Students learn to identify market opportunities, use analytics to disrupt the market and creatively solve financial problems in a novel manner to quantitatively value a financial opportunity. Students communicate a business use case for the opportunity and have the ability to participate in building, operationalizing and generating profits from a novel financial technology.

Students become experts in specific areas of FinTech, such as but not limited to Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets, Decentralized Finance, Distributed Ledgers and Blockchain, FraudTech, Insuretech, the Internet of Behaviors, Layer 0 protocols, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligences, Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing, and Smart Contracts. Students read white papers and financial statements, learn to identify financial opportunities and communicate a business use case for a specific FinTech application. Next, students build, operationalize and generate profits from a novel Financial Technology.

Students become experts in generating disruptive business intelligence through techniques such as but not limited to blockchain auditing and exploration, data visualization, data mining, data analytics, robotic process automation, programming and applying machine learning to artificial intelligences. Students quantify their insights and communicate this effectively in forecasts and reports.

Students become experts in communicating, applying and valuing specific Financial Technologies. Students use foundational valuation techniques learned in AIIM to develop novel methods of communicating an investment thesis. Students demonstrate and apply their technologies in conjunction with pitching their ideas in written and oral form in a manner open to public scrutiny.

Students become experts in communicating, applying and valuing market disruptors. Students use foundational valuation techniques learned in AIIM to develop novel methods of communicating an investment thesis. Students pitch their ideas in written and oral form in a manner open to public scrutiny.

Students understand regulatory technologies (“RegTech”) and the ethical implications of investment and financial technologies. Specific attention is given to applying ethics to the intersection of humans, robots and artificial intelligences. Students quantify governance protocols, cryptographic methodology, security standards and ethical issues affecting their investment choice. Students discover, apply and/or create RegTech capable of helping solve ongoing issues.

Topics vary.

S/U grade assessment.

S/U grade assessment.

Faculty-supervised, independent study/research of a specific area or topic in Accelerating Ingenuity in Markets.

Students participate in community service initiatives for a minimum of ten hours each term beginning in the spring of their Sophomore year. Students identify an area of passion they have to help others, locate or create an organization matching this passion and make a difference in the world. Students effectively communicate their experiences and outcomes in their Senior year.