Final Presentation
Finance Project — Asset Management
Overview
Date: 1 July 2026, in class. Format: 20-minute group presentation + 5 minutes Q&A. Submission of slides: PDF, packaged inside the same project zip submitted by 30 June 2026, 18:00. Group size: 3 students. Weight: 50% of the final grade. The other 50% is graded on the project report — see the project brief.
This is your chance to show what your strategy actually does on the Polymarket subset — and to defend the choices you made along the way.
Format
- Strict 20 minutes: we time it. Plan for ~15 slides.
- One presenter is fine; rotating speakers is fine — all three team members must be visibly part of the delivery.
- 5 minutes Q&A afterwards: questions from peers first, then us.
- Slot order is drawn at random at the start of class so all groups are equally prepared.
What we expect to see
| Section | Slides | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 1 | One-sentence research question. Why prediction markets, why this category, why now. |
| Data | 1–2 | Snapshot version, universe rules, exclusion stats. One headline figure. |
| Indicators | 3–4 | Walk through your indicator menu — at least 5–7. State formula and intuition tersely; let figures do the talking. |
| Methodology | 1–2 | Estimator (Ridge / Lasso / EN), CV scheme, walk-forward design, trading rule, transaction-cost assumption. |
| Results | 3–4 | Cumulative P&L, hit rate, Sharpe-like metric, the one figure that sells it. |
| Robustness | 1–2 | Held-out cohort, sensitivity to hyper-parameters, where the strategy breaks. |
| Reflection | 1 | One slide on what you’d do differently if you had another month. |
Slide-design hints
- One idea per slide. If a sentence belongs on two slides, split.
- Tables: booktabs style — three rules and three rules only (top, header, bottom). No inner borders.
- Figures: caption every figure with a one-line takeaway, not a description of the axes.
- No code on slides unless it’s the one line that makes a point. Code lives in the Rmd.
- Cite your data and external sources in a small footnote on the first slide that uses them.
Submission of the slides
Slides are submitted as PDF, inside the same project zip as the Rmd and report — see the project brief for the zip naming and email recipients.
Bring the slides to class on a USB stick + cloud link as a fallback. We provide the laptop / projector.
Grading rubric
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Clarity (one idea per slide, captioned figures, tight time-budget) | 30% |
| Empirical content (the methodology and results are correctly summarised from the report) | 30% |
| Critical reflection (limitations, robustness, honest discussion of what doesn’t work) | 25% |
| Q&A handling (responsive, candid, distributes across team members) | 15% |
Honor code
By presenting this project, you confirm that the work is your group’s own and that all sources — including AI assistance — have been disclosed in the project report.