Alexander Ober
Alexander Ober is a Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in the Finance Department at the Kellogg School of Management. His research interests include asset pricing and market microstructure, with a focus on equity and options markets. He is also interested in the application of machine learning techniques to problems in financial markets. He earned his PhD in Finance from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and received a Master of Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
Capital Markets (FINCM-450-0)
Capital Markets (FINC-450-0)
This course develops the key concepts necessary to understand financial markets using, where possible, the perspective of personal investing. Some of the personal investing topics covered include: Retirement planning, the cost of investing in mutual funds, how to select mutual funds, how to measure a portfolio's performance, factor investing, and arbitrage trading.
This class provides students with a structure for thinking about financial markets and the pricing of financial securities. The financial securities we study and price include stocks, bonds, futures, and options.
The class teaches how to address investment problems in a systematic manner using case studies. They are used to examine issues in the selection and implementation of investment strategies. In the process, the class examines current academic work about financial markets and their applications to investing.
