Finance and business analytics

Pricing, risk and commercial decisions: derivative exposure, fund flows, procurement, churn, record linkage and the question of how much of a market is predictable at all.

10 supervised theses. See all supervised theses for the full list, or open topics if you are looking for one to take on.

Level	Author	Title	Date	Industry	Recording
MSc	E. Kohvakka	The role of analyst sentiment in excess return forecasting, and its implications for investors	Apr. 2025
MSc	V. Niemi	Diagnosing and improving a maintenance contract churn prediction model	Dec. 2025		video
MSc	R. Kausiala	Forecasting Retail Investor Fund Flow Using Machine Learning	Nov. 2024		video
MSc	C. Segercrantz	Experimental evaluation of record linkage algorithms in a secure banking environment	Aug. 2023	Nordea Bank Oyj
MSc	J. Jäkärä	From candles to ticks – Improving financial backtesting accuracy	Dec. 2023	Aekos Trading Oy
MSc	T. Vanhala	Data-driven xVA exposure calculation for a portfolio of interest rate swaps	May 2023	Nordea Markets
MSc	J. Moisala	Optimizing the mark-up of foreign exchange derivative contracts using machine learning	May 2020
MSc	T. Wiro	Market influence on purchase prices in procurement	June 2019	Sievo
MSc	D. Koskenniemi	Do financial networks improve the explanatory power of the Fama-French factors? A comparison of propagation algorithms on stock market returns	Mar. 2018
MSc	M. Malkki	Vehicle value modelling	in progress