About the Course
The objective of this program is to develop your financial and coding skills through examples and the development of a project “Meents'ul” that seeks to apply the knowledge gain during each workshop.
The second workshop is focused to fixed income and derivatives instruments. Reinforcement learning examples in finance will be explored during the sessions.
Your Instructor
Arturo Aguilar
He is currently founder and CEO of KaxaNuk. His work experience includes various companies with a focus on financial analysis, quant strategy, sales and trading at the following institutions: UDLAP, Finamex, BlackRock, JP Morgan, AT Consultores, MSCI, Deutsche Bank and Actinver.
Bachelor degree in Actuarial Science from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Master of Business Administration by the Instituto Autónomo de Mexico and Master of Financial Engineering from WorldQuant University.
Your Instructor
Raul Silva
Quantitative Researcher at KaxaNuk, mixing the more traditional look of finance and valuation with the new school of big data and Quantitative Finance, he is leading the framework construction and calculations for market indexes and factor models, developing and backtesting investment strategies, always in the search of ideas to test in the markets.
Bachelor in Banking and Investments from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, and 3 times receiver of the CFA Scholarship award, on its way to present the last exam of the Charter.
Your Instructor
Sebastian Blanco
Quantitative Developer at KaxaNuk, focused on creating the tools and software necessary to test quantitative strategies, employing various machine learning techniques specifically tailored to finance. His expertise lies in the development of backtesting tools, data dashboards, and efficient ETL processes, ensuring that the research team has methods to transform their ideas into testable strategies.
With a Bachelor's in Banking and Investments from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, his knowledge extends beyond finance, encompassing coursework in data science, including a program from MIT on Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making. Also, on the path to achieving the CFA designation, currently pursuing Level 1.