Thank you to everyone who attended the Co-op Prep Session 2 that was held on January 12th, which included dinner, an engaging presentation, and volunteer-run information booths. The turnout was bigger than expected! Also, a special thank you to our presenter Melanie Bullagao and all of our amazing volunteers.
One of our CFM students, Rachel, has written a thoughtful article detailing 5 lessons that they have learned during the final term of their second year, after the switch was made from online to in-person studying. From useful insight on productivity to motivational advice on starting new habits, Rachel offers a polished article that is definitely worth taking a look at.
The Second Annual CFM 101 Team Competition was held in December. Teams were again required to choose from a basket of stocks to include in their portfolios to meet pre-set goals. Importantly, students did not know the basket of stocks from which their code must choose. This year, there were some devious and unexpected curve-balls thrown into stock ticker list in an attempt to get their code to do unexpected things. Happily, many groups wrote thorough code which produced very reasonable portfolios.
The first-ever CFM course to be offered at the University of Waterloo ended with a portfolio-generation competition. Teams of three first-year CFM students were tasked with coding portfolio-creation applications in the python programming language that were set loose on the market, with final portfolio values determined as of the close on Monday, December 6.
Professor James R. Thompson, co-director of the Computing and Financial Management program and a Professor at Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance, has been elected as a president of the Northern Finance Association, a Canadian-based association of researchers in the field of finance.
Keshav Chawla has long harboured a passion for computer science and finance. When he discovered a way to pursue both disciplines simultaneously through Waterloo’s Computing and Financial Management program, his choice of university was clear. “I knew how robust and built-out the program was before coming in,” he explained. “Having that combination of both disciplines was the perfect fit for me.”
The Computing and Financial Management (CFM) program is excited to announce that it will be introducing three new courses as part of its core curriculum as of fall 2021. Students starting in the program in September next year will be the first official cohort to take these classes as part of their degree requirements.
During the month of October, four upper-year students in the Computing and Financial Management (CFM) program hosted a case competition for first-year CFM students. This is the first time that this kind of event has been held to introduce students to case-style problems.
Written by Johnson, a third-year CFM student about his experience in the Schulich Strategy Discipline Case Competition.
A team of Waterloo students representing the School of Accounting and Financial, including one student from Computing and Financial Management (CFM), competed Friday, March 6 at the Canadian Regional Finals in the University of North Carolina’s Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) held at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. The team took top honours, winning the undergraduate division.