School of Economics and Finance

Welcome to the

M.Sc. Business FinanceSchool of Economics and FinanceQueen Mary University of London

London, 25th of September 2015

About the School…

About the School…

City Professionals- Visiting Professors

Gerry Perez

Director

Interactive Brokers (IB)

Sir Nicholas MacphersonPermanent Secretary to the Treasury

Bring practical insights and experience into the classroom.

Dr Martin WealeMember of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England

Dr Ibrahim StevensSenior Economist in the Monetary Analysis area of the Bank of England

Dr Giles Spungin

Global Head of Model Risk Audit, Senior Manager

HSBC

City Professionals- Visiting Professors

Jesse McDougall Co-FounderPalomar (Hedge Fund)

Konstantinos MaratosDirectorUBP (Union Bancaire Privée)

Nick BaltasDirector of Quantitative Equity Research Group UBS AG, London

…and many more!

Postgraduate Taught

LAWLAW

INVESTMENT BANKINGINVESTMENT BANKING

ACCOUNTINGACCOUNTING

FINANCEFINANCE

CORPORATE FINANCECORPORATE FINANCE

LOW LEVEL OF MATHEMATICS

REQUIRED

HIGH LEVEL OF MATHEMATICS

REQUIRED

Banking MSc

Banking and Finance MSc

Business Finance MSc

Law and Finance MSc

Finance MSc

Finance and Econometrics MSc

ECONOMICSECONOMICS

Economics MSc

Wealth Management MSc

Mathematical Finance MSc

Accounting and Finance MSc

Investment and Finance MSc

Law and Economics LLM

TRADINGTRADING

RESEARCHRESEARCH

People

Academic Staff: Luigi Ventimiglia (Director of the Programme)

Teaching Assistant:Fadime Sahin (Teaching Assistant)

Admin Staff: Stanley Babukutty (Postgraduate Student Support Manager) Sarah Riley (Finance MScs Programme Manager)

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Our programmes

Claudio VallarClaudio VallarMSc Banking and Finance

Giovanni Giovanni NappiNappi

MSc Banking and Finance

Tiziana MaidaTiziana MaidaMSc Banking and

FinanceMonika Monika

SchüllerováSchüllerováMSc Banking   

Raffaella Raffaella EspositoEsposito

MSc Finance

Nunzia Nunzia RiccioRiccio

MSc MSc Investment Investment

and Financeand Finance

Alfonsina Alfonsina IonaIona

MSc Banking and Finance

Luigi Luigi VentimigliaVentimiglia

MSc Business Finance

Francis Francis BreedonBreedon

MSc Finance(CFA Path)

Alfonsina Alfonsina IonaIonaMSc MSc

Investment Investment and Financeand Finance

Yioryos Yioryos MakedonisMakedonis

MSc Banking / Wealth

Management

You will find your assigned Teaching Assistant Advisor on your Personal details page on MySis. Please check on QMPLUS Postgraduate shared area for your TA Advisor’s office hour.

Examples of academic advice are: advising on module selection, concerns and questions about a specific module, guidance with planning academic life.

You will find your assigned Teaching Assistant Advisor on your Personal details page on MySis. Please check on QMPLUS Postgraduate shared area for your TA Advisor’s office hour.

Examples of academic advice are: advising on module selection, concerns and questions about a specific module, guidance with planning academic life.

MSc Advisory Flowchart

Fadime Fadime SahinSahin

MSc Business Finance

Anish Anish AugustineAugustine Behavioural

Finance/Wealth Management

Asen Asen IvanovIvanov

MSc Behavioural

Finance

Term Dates• First Semester: 21 September-18 December 2015

5 October 2015: Teaching starts

Reading week 09-13 November

• Second Semester: 11 January-1 April 2016

Reading week 22-26 February 2016

Bank holidays: 25 and 28 March 2016

• Revision Week: 25 April-29 April 2016 Unless stated otherwise by individual lecturers

• Exams: 3 May-10 June 2016

• Dissertation: 13th June to 5th August 2016 (TBC)

• Resits: 1st August to 10th August 2016 (TBC)

• Graduation Ceremony: December 2016

First Semester Modules:

ECOM049 Commercial and Investment Banking (Y. Makedonis)

ECOM050 Investment Management (A. Iona)

ECOM051 Business Finance (G. Spungin)

ECOM053 Quantitative Methods in FinanceECOM094 Eviews (starts on 12th of October)

(L. Leonida) (D. Maimone)

Second Semester Two compulsory modules:ECOM094 Data Analysis for Research ECOM070 Cases in Business FinanceThree options to be chosen from the following list: ECOM026 Financial DerivativesECOM035 International FinanceECOM038 Behavioural FinanceECOM042 Empirical FinanceECOM055 Risk Management for BankingECOM057 Asset ManagementECOM058 Principles of AccountingECOM059 Applied Risk ManagementECOM064 Applied Futures and OptionsECOM069 Banking RegulationsECOM071  Topics in Financial EconometricsECOM074 Bond Market StrategiesECOM076 Alternative InvestmentsECOM077 Valuation and Private EquityECOM078 Topics in Actuarial Finance and InsuranceECOM091 Credit RatingsECOM095 Mergers and AcquisitionsECOM098 Islamic Finance in PracticeECOM100 Strategic Asset AllocationECOM097 Portfolio Construction Theory

Optional Elements (Semesters A & B)• We offer an unparalleled set of optional courses.

– Designed to equip students with further practical training and key technical skills.

• These include:

– Risk Management and Investments

– VBA for Finance

– C++ for Finance

– Matlab

– Applied Portfolio Management

– Finance Trading

– Data Analysis for Research and City CV.

Outside the classroom

• QUMMIF– Student managed investment fund- currently £30,000 to invest!

• The Economics Society

• Trading and Investment Society

…..and much more

Professional accreditations and exemptions

ModulesGraded modules are typically taught via the weekly lecture and the support class for 10 weeks. The grade for each module come from the exam, typically worth 80% of the mark and the coursework component, typically worth 20% of the mark (to be held during the module). There is a prize for best coursework for each module (£500).

Lectures For each lecture one handout and some exercises can be found and downloaded from the QMPLUS one day prior to the scheduled lecture.

Classes You are allocated to a weekly one hour support class where you

will have the opportunity to work through exercises with the Teaching Assistant.

Books We provide you with e-books for all compulsory modules.

Revision

Revision lectures for all modules Exams Held centrally, can be in consecutive days!

Dissertation (13/6/2016 – 5/8/2016, TBC)You have to write a dissertation that consists of a paper on applied finance or a literature review. How to use data, structure and requirements are discussed in Data Analysis for Research at the beginning of the Second Semester.

Resits (August TBC 1/8/2016- 10/8/2016)The exam period is done again for students failing modules. !Can happen in the same day!

What to do next?

A. Modules registration

B. Download e-books (you will receive an email)

C. Always use institutional email

Registration of modulesIn the postgraduate shared area you will also be able to find the module syllabus for semester A and B modules. There are also a number of module presentations.

Teaching Assistant Academic Advisor: their office hours are advertised on the postgraduate shared area in the ‘study support and academic advisors’ section.

1.Go to: https://mysis.qmul.ac.uk2. Log in using college username and password;3.Choose the modules (3 options);4.Choose on the basis of your tastes only. I will let you change at the beginning of semester 2 after the first introductory lectures.5.“Enter” your diet. Once you have “entered” it, I will check and confirm your selection.6. Deadline to enter your selections: 9th October 2016

e-book CollectionAs part of a innovative project and with the intention to become “greener”, the School of Economics and Finance provides you with e-books for compulsory modules.The e-books run on the same platform (Kortex) and have the same functionalities (you will be able to read them on and off-line, take notes, print parts of them).

Details will be given to you during the *second week of October* when you will be able to access them. You will receive an email with the instructions to access them. You will also have a dedicated customer care.

Thank you for choosing our School

We wish you an exciting, challenging and rewarding experience with us.

good luck

School of Economics and Finance