Investment and Financial Risk Management Masters (MSc)

Course Summary

• Type: MSc
• Location: London, UK
• Duration: 1 year
• Deadline: September

Course Description

Do you want a rewarding, exciting and challenging career? If so, this is the course to set you on the path to a wide variety of careers in investment, trading, financial analysis, fund management, banking, financial services, finance and financial consultancy.

It is aimed at students from a variety of academic backgrounds, including those who have not studied economics, finance or accountancy at bachelors level. Those who have studied statistics, mathematics, physics, engineering or other quantitative subjects will enjoy the programme.

The programme covers many aspects of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), giving students the chance to take the CFA professional examination.

What will you study?

The programme will provide you with the computer and research skills required by employers in this highly competitive sector. After an induction programme introducing you to the Business School and the expectations and ethos of the course, you will go on to:

• address the modern portfolio theory and its implications for the pricing of assets;
• develop a critical knowledge and understanding of the core theories and concepts in the field of corporate finance and investment and financial accounting; and
• examine in detail the key risks (credit, liquidity, interest rate and market risk) to which investment firms and banks are exposed, and their measurement and management techniques.

In the second term you will examine the key issues in investment banking and trading. You will have a dedicated Bloomberg trading room where different trading techniques will be applied in practice with real live data. You will also analyse and explore in detail the investment management, financial engineering, fixed income and securities, derivatives, financial management and/or the regulation and compliance of financial institutions.

The research methods and the research project will enable you to focus in depth on a specific area of investment and financial risk management. There will be also a programme of guest lecture from investment and financial risk management experts from the industry.