MFIN604-26S1 (C) Semester One 2026

Quantitative Analysis

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 February 2026
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2026
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 March 2026
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 May 2026

Description

In this course, you’ll explore quantitative concepts and techniques essential for financial analysis and investment decision-making. We’ll cover descriptive statistics to convey key data attributes - such as central tendency, location, and dispersion - and explore the characteristics of return distributions. Additionally, we’ll examine probability theory and its role in quantifying risk to support informed investment decisions. This course will also introduce machine learning algorithms and the role of big data in an investment context. This course will use R and SAS software for data analysis.

Prerequisites

Subject to Approval of the Head of Department

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Tom Coupe

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,198.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All MFIN604 Occurrences

  • MFIN604-26S1 (C) Semester One 2026