Projects
Sample Finance Research Practicum™ projects
Sample Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Banking projects
Sample Proseminar in Investment Management/Capital Markets projects
Sample Finance Research Practicum™ projects
- Value and hedge Brazilian interest rate options.
- Help a pension fund decide whether to hedge tail risk.
- Determine the types of businesses that will drive the next wave of social networking.
- Evaluate the merits of low-volatility equity strategies.
- Examine how the pricing relationship between sovereign bonds and credit default swaps written on those bonds has changed in light of the sovereign debt crises of 2011.
- Research the pros and cons of various ways of estimating covariance matrices.
Sample Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Banking projects:
- Provide investment banking advice to a private equity-controlled chemical company, including valuation analysis and exit strategies.
- Give recommendations on raising capital for a rapidly growing private company.
- Conduct a valuation of two major home construction companies.
- Provide investment banking advice to a private company considering an IPO or sale of the company.
- Give mergers and acquisitions advice to the CEO of a public company receiving an unsolicited acquisition offer.
- Give going-private advice for a closely held, large public corporation.
- Learn the value of a captive finance unit to an industrial manufacturer.
- Evaluate an acquisition opportunity in the healthcare market.
- Assess the long-term growth opportunities for a niche financing business.
- Determine the cost of hedging at a commodity processing company.
- Analyze a technology company’s current financial position and develop a financial plan to match the company’s growth strategy.
Sample Proseminar in Capital Markets/Investment Management projects:
- Determine a portfolio’s optimal rebalancing schedule
- Review and classify methodologies for detecting crowded trades within equity, fixed income, and currency markets.
- Develop and test strategies for replicating hedge fund style returns.
- Design a portfolio construction technique which takes into account non-normal returns and realistic risk preferences.
- Determine a portfolio’s optimal exposure to illiquid assets.
- Analyze the cost of trading foreign exchange for a major New York-based asset management firm.
- Prepare an asset allocation analysis for a pension fund to account for the claims of corporate stakeholders.
