Financial Forecasting & Investment

Optional courses

• Advanced portfolio analysis
• Applied computational finance (Mathematical finance is a corequisite for this course)
• Corporate finance and investment
• Economic fundamentals and financial markets
• Financial derivatives (Mathematical finance is a corequisite for this course)
• International finance and money
• International financial accounting for MNCs (Accounting and Finance)
• Mathematical finance (corequisite course for Financial derivatives and Applied computational finance)

Other optional courses offered by Economics may be available, subject to the approval of the Programme Director.

Pre-sessional training: Quantitative methods for finance

Students are strongly encouraged to attend a short, pre-sessional course that reviews basic calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics, all of which will be used in the MSc programme.

Additional training

Students will receive specialised training using the Bloomberg Trading Platform, based in our new and dedicated Bloomberg Trading Room, and MATLAB, a powerful, technical software programme used widely on trading floors and by researchers in the fields of Economics and Finance. The immediate aim of this training is to provide you with further tools to assist with your coursework and MSc dissertation.  However, it will also increase your employability because graduate recruiters attach significant value to expertise in using these tools.  The training component of your programme is not assessed and is offered on a first come, first served basis.