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Bangor Business School - London Centre

Finance MSc

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What Will I Study?

Issues you will tackle as part of your MSc Finance degree programme include:

  • What are the relationships between risk and return governing investment in company shares and other derivative instruments?
  • Can market risk be priced accurately?
  • Can credit risk be priced accurately?
  • Which factors are most likely to influence the evaluation and implementation of international investment projects?
  • How can we calculate a suitable cost of capital to appraise the capital investment decision?
  • How should institutional investors go about constructing a portfolio of assets to maximise returns on behalf of investors?
  • How can we assess the investment performance of pension funds, insurance companies and unit trusts?
  • How are futures, options, derivatives and swaps used to manage balance sheet and off-balance sheet risks?
  • What are the key principles of international portfolio management in a world of fast and unpredictable movements in exchange rates?
  • How can spreadsheets be used to develop financial models, and what techniques are required to obtain computational solutions to finance problems?
  • What are the main features of financial engineering, and how can one asset be transformed into another?
  • What are the design features of synthetic assets, and how do they help us to develop strategies for hedging risks?
  • How can financial forecasts be used in business valuation, and what techniques should be used to improve trend analysis and interfirm comparison?

With these needs in mind, the MSc Finance programme is designed to develop participants' existing skills through a scheme of specialist advanced study. An important objective is to provide participants with relevant analytical training so that they are familiar with the latest theoretical and practical developments relating to corporate finance and the capital markets. This programme provides a coherent theoretical framework for the various subject areas, but the emphasis throughout is on advanced practical application of financial techniques in a real-world setting.

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