FINTECH536

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Robo-Advising: The Future of Investing?

Financial Technology EGR - School of Engineering

Subject

FINTECH

Catalog Number

536

Title

Robo-Advising: The Future of Investing?

Course Description

Robo-Advice brings investment services to a wider audience at lower costs compared to human advisors. Students will construct a very basic advisor using the Python programming language. This will be a short experiential case study with an open source Python code. Student teams will develop a comprehensive venture capital investment memorandum for a real-world Robo-Advising startup. Teams will analyze the Robo-Advisor's market environment, including the financial services industry, wealth management segments, competitors and channels; and, internal company characteristics, such as business strategy, asset allocation and portfolio composition, cost of customer acquisition, and financials.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Typically Offered

Spring Only

Consent (Permission Number)

No Special Consent Required

Min Units

3

Max Units

3

Lecture