Da Huang

Northeastern University:

FINA 3303 - Investments, as instructor

The class is designed to familiarize undergraduate finance students with introductory finance theory and practice from the point of view of a portfolio manager. Topics covered in the class include Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Markowitz optimization, performance evaluation, mutual funds, market efficiency, etc.

A sample of student evaluation can be found here.

University of Utah:

FINAN 3050 - Introduction to Investments, as instructor

I taught the course under a hybrid format in Spring 2021. The class is designed to familiarize undergraduate finance students with introductory finance theory and practice from the point of view of a portfolio manager. Topics covered in the class include Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Markowitz optimization, performance evaluation, mutual funds, market efficiency, etc.

Here is the syllabus , the final exam with solutions, and a portfolio optimization tool I built for students.

FINAN 7850 - Advanced Empirical Asset Pricing, as teaching assistant (Jonathan Brogaard as instructor)

This course is designed for second year finance Ph.D. students and covers recent influential papers in asset pricing and market microstructure. I was the teaching assistent for the class in Fall 2020, 2021, and 2022. I grade weekly replication assignments in Stata, SAS, Python, and R and answer my junior colleagues' questions about the papers covered in the class in assistance of Professor Brogaard.

Here is the syllabus of the class when I took it in my second year.

FINAN 6122 - Advanced Finance

This course applies in a case-based setting several of the core concepts of finance for executive MBAs. Jonathan Brogaard and I coauthored a case study about smart beta and factor investing for the class. Please contact us if you are interested in using it in your class.