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Master of Financial and Actuarial Engineering (Leuven)
Master
In Leuven ()
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
3,500 €
Description
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Type
Master
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Duration
Flexible
The Master of Financial and Actuarial Engineering programme provides students with up-to-date, sound and advanced financial, actuarial and statistical skills. It is an intensive, advanced, one-year programme for university graduates interested in a career in risk management, financial and/or actuarial engineering within financial institutions. The discipline focuses on the application of quantitative methods to problems involving risk or uncertainty. You will gain an understanding of current and future problems and solutions in insurance and banking and be equipped with fundamental and conceptual knowledge of the mathematical and economic aspects of financial theory and insurance techniques.
About this course
The programme provides advanced insights into the actuarial aspects of life insurance, general insurance and risk theory as well as financial mathematics and the inter-relationship and integration of actuarial sciences and finance. The programme draws on over sixty years of experience and international recognition. The research team for risk theory, finance and statistics has a strong research profile and is ranked among the world top in terms of actuarial research productivity. The programme is jointly offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Science at KU Leuven, in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain.
The programme addresses the rapidly-changing needs resulting from the accelerating globalisation of the banking and insurance sector. As such, it provides a sound basis for a career in various areas of risk management, financial and actuarial engineering and insurance. Most graduates find employment in insurance companies, whose financial stability depends on actuarial calculations (e.g. premiums, provisions, capital requirements, reinsurance policy).
As an expert in the field of risk and uncertainty, you can also play an important role in banking and finance. The increasing convergence between the insurance and financial markets as well as the use of mathematically based instruments, such as options and futures, offers excellent career prospects. Graduates are well placed to find employment in banks, pension funds, reinsurance companies, consulting and audit companies.
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Subjects
- Risk
- Sound
- Financial
- Engineering
- Insurance
- IT risk
- Financial Training
- Techniques
- Economic
- General Insurance
Course programme
At the end of the programme students will:
- be equipped with fundamental and conceptual knowledge of the mathematical and economic aspects of financial theory and insurance techniques;
- have advanced insights in the actuarial aspects of life insurance, general insurance, risk theory as well as in the interrelationship and integration of actuarial sciences and financial mathematics;
- have a strong background in quantitative methods and financial models and will be able to select and apply those methods to problems that involve risk or uncertainty;
- dispose of enhanced analytical, critical, conceptual, problem solving and decision making capabilities and skills;
- have the ability to integrate actuarial, statistical and financial modelling techniques in order to arrive at effective solutions to problems occurring in insurance and financial practice;
- be able to conduct research, not only in an academic context, but also in view of a professional career;
- be able to stay up-to-date with the advances in actuarial sciences by following up and familiarizing with new insights, developments, results and methods;
- be able to communicate and report adequately on financial and actuarial topics.
Master of Financial and Actuarial Engineering (Leuven)
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
3,500 €