On the Sophia Antipolis campus, the MSc Financial Markets has a Trading, Structuring & Portfolio Management track
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SEMESTER 1
Mandatory courses, total credits: 30
Preschooling:
Stochastic Calculus Applied to Financial Models
Tackling Country Risk Challenges in the Age of Globalisation
Employability & Career
Financial Research & Modelling with R
Financial Econometrics with R
Fixed Income 1: Pricing & Valuation
Equity Valuation & Financial Analysis
Derivative Valuation & Strategies
MS Excel VBA Programming
VBA 1: Pricing Techniques
SQL Programming
SEMESTER 2
Mandatory courses, total credits: 14
Amplify Trading Simulation
Quantitative Portfolio Management
Employability & Career
Fixed Income 2: Investment Strategies
Credit Value Adjustment (CVA)
Portfolio Management Simulation
Compliance & Ethics
Elective courses (select eight), total credits: 16
Equity/FX Structured Products
Quantitative Modelling: Exotic Options
Commodities and Commodity Trading
Fixed Income Structured Products
Current Economic and Geopolitical Issues
Option Book Management
Quantitative Modeling of the Value at Risk
Traded Credit: CDS, CDO, CVA, Loans
VBA 2: VBA Quantitative Development
Python 1 Programming for Finance
Python 2 Applied to Finance
Fintechs and other Banking Ventures in a Digital World
Artificial Intellingence Tools for Market Finance (MSFT Power Platform)
Courses in the second semester emphasise technical and quantitative issues so that students are ready for their first job interviews in February/March.
Total credits = 30 (semester 1), 30 semester 2), 30 dissertation = 90
These details are for information only and may be changed by the school without prior notice.
