Risk Management and Financial Engineering

Imperial College Business School

Postgraduate

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This highly technical programme equips students with the cutting-edge risk management tools and strategies utilised by world leading financial firms.Designed for recent graduates with a good quantitative undergraduate degree and a highly analytical mind, the one-year MSc Risk Management & Financial Engineering programme equips students with the cutting-edge risk management tools and strategies utilised by world leading financial firms.

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London
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South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ

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About this course

Designed for recent graduates with a good quantitative undergraduate degree and a highly analytical mind, the one-year MSc Risk Management & Financial Engineering programme equips students with the cutting-edge risk management tools and strategies utilised by world leading financial firms. The Business School is partnered with the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA), offering students on this programme the opportunity to attend PRMIA events, have access to their resources and benefit from considerable discounts on PRMIA exams.

All applicants must apply online. You can usually apply for up to two courses, although your second choice will only be considered if your first-choice application is unsuccessful. Most courses don't have a formal closing date, but popular courses close when they are full, so you should apply early to avoid disappointment. There may also be funding deadlines that apply to you. You will need to upload documents with your applications, which may include transcripts and degree...

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Financial Training
  • Financial
  • Finance
  • Management
  • IT Management
  • Risk
  • IT risk
  • Risk Management
  • Engineering
  • Project

Course programme

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

This programme comprises nine or ten taught modules and an end of year project. Six are core modules, taken during the first two terms. The three or four elective modules are taken during the spring and summer terms.

You will devote the summer to the completion of the project. Students can either opt to pursue a traditional research project (10,000 words) or an 'Applied Financial Research' report (3,000 words), together with an additional elective.

Modules Pre-study modules (online)
  • Accounting Primer
  • Career and Professional Development
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Introduction to Maths
  • Plagiarism Awareness
  • Study Skills
Foundation modules
  • Application of MATLAB to Finance
  • Financial Modelling
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Markets and Securities
  • The Finance Industry
Core modules
  • Empirical Finance Methods and Applications
  • Financial statistics
  • Financial Engineering
  • Investments and Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management and Valuation
  • Stochastic Calculus
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • Ethics and Professional Standards in Finance (online module)
Elective modules
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Advanced Financial Statistics
  • Advanced Investments
  • Advanced Options Theory
  • Computational Finance with C++
  • Credit risk
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Financial Crises: Regulation and Ethics
  • Fixed-Income securities
  • International Finance
  • International Elective: Macro and Finance for Practitioners
  • Insurance
  • Numerical Finance
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Structured Credit and Equity Products
  • Wealth Management and Alternative Investments
  • Real Estate Investment
  • Topics in Corporate Finance

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