Upon successful completion of this MSc in Financial Risk Management at Birkbeck, University of London, students will have the expertise to identify and manage the major sources of risk in the financial markets. Students will understand the role of financial derivative products, their use (and misuse) and how they are priced, and students will be able to analyse financial data and build risk models, detect trends in data, test a given hypothesis and forecast future values. Students will also understand how to build an investment portfolio (of risky assets) and carefully monitor its performance over time.
Birkbeck's postgraduate finance courses are built around our long-running experience in research-led evening teaching. Many of college students work in the finance industry, which generates a lively atmosphere in class and ensures that students will be studying alongside committed, enthusiastic students with a wealth of experience. Students will be taught by active researchers, working at the cutting edge in their respective fields, who are also experienced professional practitioners, giving specialist advice and in-house training to government departments and banks and firms in the City of London. This course is challenging and demanding, so students should demonstrate strong intellectual ability in their application and be willing to work hard.
Highlights
- This course combines a high level of academic rigour with a solid grounding in practical problem-solving skills.
- College have an excellent reputation for the quality of teaching, which includes providing training for the Treasury and the Bank of England.
- Birkbeck's Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics enjoys an international reputation and its economics and finance research groups stand among the foremost research groups in the country.
- In the Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than half of college research outputs in Economics were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.
