GUILLAUME MONARCHA - Responsable de la Recherche Quantitative, Orion Financial Partners
The last ten years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Professionals now use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, derivative pricing, risk management and securities regulation. This course has two main objectives. The first one is to offer an overview of mostly used econometrics tools, and some of their developements in the machine learning area: moment estimation, linear factor models, dynamic linear models, latent factor models, numerical simulations, model selection, clustering. The second one is to highlight the strong link between academic research and their practical implementation in various fields – portfolio construction, asset pricing, fund analysis, performance evaluation, quantitative investment strategies, factor investing, backtesting – through the analysis of research papers and applications into Python.
Lecture 1 - An Overview of Financial Data
Python applications: distributional tests, modified-/conditional-/theoretical value-at-risk estimations.
Lecture 2 - Econometrics of the Efficient Frontier, part 1
Python applications: simulation of estimation errors ; illustration of the impact of estimation errors on optimal porfolio weights.
Lecture 3 - Econometrics of the Efficient Frontier, part 2
Python applications: Replication of the main results of 3 research papers (cf. references): simulation of statistically equivalent optimal portfolios, estimation of the resampled efficient frontier, bootstrap estimation of the efficient frontier.
Lecture 4 - Factor Pricing Models
Python applications: Identification of the cross-sectional return drivers of global macro hedge funds.
Lecture 5 - Dynamic factor Models
Python applications: estimation of fund dynamic exposures, implementation of trend following strategies.
Lecture 6 - Model selection
Python application: Identification of the global macro factors driving equity returns.
Lecture 7 - Backtest validation
Python applications: backtesting the momentum alternative risk premia strategy.
Greene W. H., 2017, “Econometric Analysis”, 8th edition, Pearson, 1176 pages.
Hastie T., Tibshirani R., and J. Friedman, 2016, “The Elements of Statistical Learning”, Springer Series in Statistics, 2nd edition, 745 pages.
Meucci A., 2009, “Risk and Asset Allocation”, Springer Finance, 3rd Edition, 532 pages.
Tsay R., 2010, “Analysis of Financial Time Series”, Wiley-Blackwell, 3rd edition, 712 pages.
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