Finance Certificate, Trainings, Events and Case Competitions
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Case Competitions are an excellent opportunity for resume-ready and real-world experience.
There are dozens of case competitions organized across the country and world. The Burridge Center helps support students interested in case competitions in various ways.
- Help build a team or promote/recruit students
- Meet and discuss strategy/tactics
- Connect with professionals in the area of the competition
- Financial and other related support
Some annual competitions we are very familar with include the CME Trading Challenge, the CFA Research Challenge (Buffs advanced to Semi-Finals in 2022), and the new Excel Modeling Challenge hosted by our friends at the University of Arizona.
The Burridge Center is proud to work with a number of 3rd party training vendors, such as Wall Street Prep
The Burridge Center organizes various extra and co-curricular training sessions for interested Leeds students. We try to schedule these in person, and over the weekend to not interfere with classes.
Please email matthew.fleming@colorado.edu for more information.
Burridge Center Finance Seminar Series, featuring leading scholars from top universities who share cutting-edge research and insights on finance and financial markets. Seminars are open to Leeds faculty and PhD students, or by permission.
The financial planning track is available in the finance area of emphasis.
The track is designed to prepare students for a career as a personal financial planner and to take the CFP® certification exam.
Personal Financial Planning is a holistic process involving:
- Establishing a client relationship;
- Determining client goals;
- Collection of relevant information;
- Financial analysis and formulation of a plan of action;
- Working with the client to implement the financial plan;
- Monitoring the plan and making adjustments over time.
Learn more here: PFP Website
The Quantitative Finance Certificate Program is an undergraduate certificate program housed in the Leeds School of Business.
Designed to provide the foundation for a lifetime of analytical problem solving. The Program appeals to accomplished students who enjoy solving analytic problems as applied in their career of choice. Students with these skills and interests are in high demand in the business world which becomes more analytical and mathematical every year. In addition, successful candidates will be well-prepared for further study at the graduate level.
The program offers two tracks:
- The Actuarial Studies Track
- The Quantitative Finance Track
The two tracks differ only in application. If you are unfamiliar with the two fields, see the links to the left for an overview. Although similar, each curriculum is tailored to the area of application. Curricula are rigorous and multi-disciplinary, with required coursework drawing from the Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and the Economics Department, as well as the Finance Division of the Leeds School of Business. The confluence of such widely varying material is one of the unique features of the program. Successful completion of the Program requirements is a significant accomplishment. The Program is not a major and is open to students majoring in any subject. However, the program has extensive course requirements which mesh most closely with students majoring in Business (finance emphasis), Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Economics.
Burridge Center helps support the annual Steve Pardo Memorial Lecture
Blurb on Vail Finance Conference: The Colorado Finance Summit is a small, boutique finance conference hosted by the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder and sponsored by the school's Burridge Center for Finance.
It has run each December since 2015 and is currently organized by Simona Abis and Andrea Buffa. The Summit gathers a compact group of scholars in Vail for four days of research presentations. Submissions are welcome from all areas of finance, theoretical and empirical alike, with early-stage work that hasn't yet been presented elsewhere particularly encouraged. The program is deliberately small: eight papers, each paired with a discussant, plus a session dedicated to presentations by selected job market candidates, giving PhD students a chance to workshop their job market paper in an informal setting before the interview season begins. Sessions are clustered in the early morning and late afternoon, leaving invited attendees ample time to explore Vail and its outdoor activities in between. Three $1,000 awards (best regular-session paper, best job market presentation, and best discussion) are decided by participant vote at the close of the conference.