The Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (DEF) and ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management will jointly offer the course ARPM marathon free of charge to PhD students of Italian institutions.

The program will run from January 21st 2019 to June 14th 2019.

The ARPM Marathon is an online/onsite, advanced master-level, quantitative program, divided in four courses: - Data Science for Finance - Financial Engineering for Investment - Quantitative Risk Management - Quantitative Portfolio Management

The program consists of multiple weekly online preparation sessions with theory and practice in the ARPM Lab online, and one weekly onsite meeting at DEF to discuss and share comments and ideas, under the supervision of prof. Alessandro Ramponi, a faculty member of DEF.

Participation to the weekly onsite meetings is necessary to remain enrolled in the program.

The program is designed to enable students with a solid mathematical background to operate across all functions in banking, insurance and asset management, or to perform advanced applied research.

Upon enrollment, students will obtain access to:

- ARPM Lab online: theory, case studies, simulation clips, slides, exercises, code (Python and MATLAB), video lectures - Onsite flipped classroom breakout sessions at DES - Private forum for technical Q&A and networking - Homework assignments - Schedule and personal trainer reminding of all upcoming to-do’s

Upon completion of any of the four courses, students will attain a Certificate of Completion. Seats are limited: to be considered for enrollment, interested PhD students should send a motivation letter and their resume to info@arpm.co by January 7th, 2019

Best regards,

Stefano Herzel - Director of M.Sc. Finance in and Banking, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Attilio Meucci - Founder, ARPM