Practicum courses
Course sequence
Finance 456: Asset Management Practicum - Spring
Finance 457: Asset Management Practicum - Fall
Finance 458: Asset Management Practicum - Winter
Students enrolled in this sequence of courses manage a portion of the Kellogg School’s endowment. The courses combine investment theory with exposure to leading practitioners. Students will rotate across roles of industry analysts, traders, quantitative analysts, and portfolio managers. All students are required to take two full quarters of credit in the practicum, and can take up to three quarters. Students completing two quarters of the practicum have the option of registering for a third quarter.
Prerequisites for 456:
Permission of instructor; FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.
Co-requisites:
1. For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously enrolled in one of the following classes:
- FINC 442: Financial Decisions
- FINC 444: Value Investing
- FINC 448: M&As, LBOs and Corporate Restructuring
- FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance
- ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis or ACCT 452: Issues in Financial Reporting, (or have the requirement waived by the instructor.)
2. Before graduation:
Prerequisites for 457:
Permission of instructor; FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.
Co-requisites:
1. For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously enrolled in one of the following classes:
- FINC 442: Financial Decisions
- FINC 444: Value Investing
- FINC 448: M&As, LBOs and Corporate Restructuring
- FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance
- ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis (or have the requirement waived by the instructor.)
2. Before graduation:
Prerequisites for 458:
Permission of instructor; FINC 431: Finance II or FINC 440: Accelerated Corporate Finance.
Co-requisites:
1. For their first quarter of the practicum, students must have taken or be simultaneously enrolled in one of the following classes:
- FINC 442: Financial Decisions
- FINC 444: Value Investing
- FINC 448: M&As, LBOs and Corporate Restructuring
- FINC 477: Global Entrepreneurial Finance
- ACCT 451 Financial Reporting and Analysis or ACCT 452: Issues in Financial Reporting, (or have the requirement waived by the instructor.)
2. Before graduation:
Related courses
Portfolio management
- FINC-450: Capital Markets
Equity/Firm valuation
- FINC-442: Financial Decisions
- FINC-444: Value Investing
- FINC-910: Asset Management Lab
- ACCT-459: ESG Investing and Sustainability Reporting
Fixed income
- FINC-951: Private Equity and Distressed Investing
Derivatives
- FINC-465: Derivative Markets
Venture capital/Private equity
- FINC-445: Private Equity and Venture Capital
- FINC-615: Venture Lab
- FINC-639: Private Equity Lab
- FINC-472: Wall Street, Hedge Funds and Private Equity
- FINC-478: Financial Modeling for Private Equity Transactions
- FINC-947: Private Equity Deep Dive
- FINC-951: Private Equity and Distressed Investing
- FINC-980: Venture Investing
- FINC-982: Advanced Topics in Venture Investing
Tax planning
- FINC-447: Financial Strategy and Tax
Real estate
- FINC-454: Real Estate Finance and Investments
- FINC-455: Applied Real Estate Finance and Investments
Financial reporting
- ACCT-451: Financial Reporting and Analysis
- ACCT-452: Issues in Financial Reporting
Global macro investing/Asset allocation
Spreadsheet modeling/Statistical methods
- FINC-478: Financial Modeling for Private Equity Transactions
- OPNS-450: Decision Models & Prescriptive Analytics
- OPNS-451: Data Analytics with Large Language Models