Programme Aims and Objectives

The programme aims at providing students with advanced knowledge in financial management including financing & investment strategies and risk management.

The financial market is a rapidly changing world. The swift pace of financial innovations in the last decade and the recent financial turmoil have changed the landscape of the financial sector. These changes will call for novel ways of risk management and new financial regulations. Professionals in the financial sector need to continuously update their knowledge lest their expertise will become obsolete.

The MISSION of our programmes is to put our students on a competitive edge in their future professional pursuit in financial industry.

• The MSc Finance (MSF) programme aims at providing students with advanced knowledge in financial management including financing & investment strategies and risk management.
• The MSc Financial Engineering (MSFE) programme targets at helping students acquire advanced quantitative skills to analyze sophisticated derivative models, price and evaluate the risk of complex financial instruments, and develop appropriate risk management strategies.

Course Description

Core Courses

Students are required to take 8 required core courses which equal to a total of 24 credit units.

• Corporate Finance
• Derivatives and Risk Management
• Financial Econometrics
• Investments
• Professional Seminars in Finance
• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Fixed Income Securities
• International Financial Management

Electives

Students can choose 2 electives (total 6 credit units) from the list below:

• Option Pricing
• Spreadsheet Modeling in Finance
• Stochastic Calculus for Finance
• Credit Risk Management
• Financial Systems, Markets and Instruments
• An elective in the following disciplines offered by the departments of the College of Business to suit students’ interests and career development needs: Accounting, Economics and Finance, Information Systems, Management, Management Science, and Marketing