The curriculum includes mathematical, statistical and computational methods for security pricing, asset allocation, speculative trading, and risk management, and offers comprehensive coverage on financial markets and valuable insights on the performance of various pricing models in market practice.
Graduates from this program are well prepared for jobs in trading and market making of derivatives, financial product development (structured products, insurance products etc.), investment decision making (fund management, trading strategies, etc.), and risk management (risk assessment, stress testing, etc.).
On completion of the program, students are expected to have:
- Comprehensive knowledge of financial products commonly traded in the markets and solid understanding of models of security pricing and hedging in equity, fixed-income, forex and credit markets.
- Solid understanding of the principles and technologies for risk management and trading strategies.
- The ability to construct quantitative models and use them for production through quantitative programming.
