Launched in April 2010, the CAMRI Investment Management & Trading Lab is the focal point of CAMRI’s teaching, training, and educational activities. Due to its stated research and educational mission in the Asian fund management context, it has a preponderance of financial databases, with particular focus on Asian securities. Located at Level 3 of the Mochtar Riady Building, the CAMRI Lab enhances the students’ portfolio management experience and hands-on activities in financial modeling and management. The Lab has 32 workstations, Thomson Reuters live feeds, live financial data tickers, MSCI Barra investment and risk management software modules, and various other trading and portfolio management software applications. There are at least three BBA and MBA finance modules in investment and risk management as well as various applied research seminars and executive lectures taught out of the CAMRI Lab currently. The aim is to enable participants in various NUS Business School programs to have first-hand experience and training with the best tools available to the professional investment community, and as a result, best prepare them for the investments, financial, and wealth management job markets.
Financial Software and Datasets available in the CAMRI Investment Management & Trading lab
The lab currently has Thomson Reuters, MSCI Barra, OANDA, Imagine Trading System Software and Financial Trading System installed on all the 32 PCs, and 1 Bloomberg station available for classroom demonstration purposes.
Based on a special agreement with Thomson Reuters, we have the following Reuters applications now available in the lab:
Reuters 3000Xtra
Reuters Knowledge
Starmine
We also plan to have the following Reuters datasets available in the lab:
Market QA
Asset 4
And special access to Thomson Reuters's risk, alpha and quant models for academic purposes
Reuters 3000Xtra – Training session by Thomson Reuters, 2 June 2010
Presentation slides, Reuters Knowledge Network on-demand web training and data guides are available for you to download.
Please follow the log-in details to access the databases
Based on another special agreement with MSCI Barra, we have the following Barra applications, risk models, and datasets now available in the Lab:
Barra on Campus, Aegis Platform, and Alphabuilder
Asia-Pacific Equity Model (ASE1)
Various single country models (Singapore, China, Japan)
US Equity Model (USE3)
Global Equity Model (GEM2)
A free upgrade to Barra Portfolio Manager (BPM) when it is launched
Barra resources are available for you to download (password-protected – for NUS Business School staff and students only).
You can also view the Barra Training Video
Imagine Trading System Enhanced User Guide & Context-Sensitive Help, January 2012
Please follow the log-in details to access Imagine Trading System’s enhanced version 7.0.2 User Guide, which has significantly expanded context-sensitive help for use within the Imagine Software system. Window-specific help is now available from over four hundred windows, accessible via the [F1] key. This enhanced guide also offers flexible, format-optimized printability. You can easily print full chapters, or even the entire guide, with one or two clicks. From the guide, click the Print icon for more details. The Imagine Trading System User Guide is password-protected and strictly for NUS Business School staff and students use only.
CAMRI Inter-Semester Applied Financial Seminar Series, May to July 2010
CAMRI had conducted an Inter-Semester Applied Financial Seminar Series at the CAMRI Investment Management & Trading Lab from May to July 2010. Expert members of the financial industry spoke to our NUS Business School Honours & MBA finance students, as well as applied financial researchers, on various current topics related to capital markets and/or asset management. Most workshops included hands-on instruction using the various financial software available in the CAMRI lab.
Click here to view the booking of the CAMRI Investment Management & Trading Lab [Choose Venue: BZ1/CMRI-BIZ 1 CAMRI LAB (CAMRI booking only)]
Please contact the CAMRI staff for bookings. Booking priority will be given to BIZ classes and projects that require the use of investments-related data and software. Examples of projects could be honours-year thesis, certain classroom projects, school case & stock competitions, student consulting practicum assignments, NUS-CFA Partnership activities, geno-economic financial experiments, and so on. The CAMRI Lab is open every day from 8am to 10pm, except on Sundays and Public Holidays.
