Oct 30, 2025  
Spring 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
Spring 2026 Graduate Catalog
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AMS 518 - Advanced Stochastic Models, Risk Assessment, and Portfolio Optimization


The course provides a thorough treatment of advance risk measurement and portfolio optimization, extending the traditional approaches to these topics by combining distributional models with risk or performance measures into one framework. It focuses on, among others, the fundamentals of probability metrics and optimization, new approaches to portfolio optimization and a variety of essential risk measures. Numerical exercises and projects in a high-level programming environment will be assigned.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): AMS 512  or AMS 516  or AMS 522  

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ​

Offered Fall



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