MSc Risk and Finance

Full-year programme. Student must take courses to the value of four full units (of which one paper includes a dissertation) as shown below.

Paper

Course number and title

1

FM403 

Management and Regulation of Risk (includes dissertation)

2

Papers to the value of one half-unit from the following list of Finance courses:

FM429

Asset Markets A (H)

FM431M

Corporate Finance A (H) or FM431L Corporate Finance A (H)

FM473

Finance I (H)

 

Papers to the value of one full unit from the following list of quantitative courses:

 

AC444

Valuation and Security Analysis (H)

AC470

Accounting in the Global Economy (H) (n/a 13/14)

FM402

Financial Risk Analysis (H)

FM404

Forecasting Financial Time Series (H)*

FM413

Fixed Income Markets (H)

FM421

Applied Corporate Finance (H)

FM429

Asset Markets A (H) (if not taken under paper 2)

FM430

Corporate Finance and Asset Markets

FM431M

 Corporate Finance A (H) or FM431L Corporate Finance A (H) (if not taken under paper 2)

FM442

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H)*

FM445

Portfolio Management (H)

FM472

International Finance (H)

FM473

Finance I (H) (if not taken under paper 2)

GY462

Real Estate Finance (H)

MG455

Principles of Decision Sciences (H)

ST409

Stochastic Processes (H)

3

Papers to the value of one full unit from the following list of qualitative courses:

 

AC412

Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)

GY420

Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

 

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY475

Issues in Environmental Governance (H)

LL4BE

Principles of Financial Regulation (H)

LL4BF

Regulating for Financial Stability (H)

LL4BK

Corporate Crime (H)

LL4BL

Financial Crime (H)

LL4BX

Corporate Governance (H)

MN429

The World Trading System (H)

MN430

Strategy for the Information Economy (H)

PH425

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

SO425

Regulation, Risk and Economic Life

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

4

Papers to the value of one half unit from those not selected in 3 or 4 above, or any other paper with the approval of the Programme Director.


Notes


* Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students, a non-assessed computer course.