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 Applied VBA
- Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
-
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: 16
- Preschooling Stochastic Calculus Applied to Financial Models
- Amplify Trading Simulation
- Quantitative Portfolio Management
- Employability & Career
- Fixed Income 2: Investment Strategies
- Credit Value Adjustment (CVA)
- Portfolio Management Simulation
- Compliance & Ethics
- VBA2: VBA Quantitative Development
Elective courses (select seven), total credits: 14
- Equity/FX Structured Products
- Quantitative Modeling: Exotic Options
- Commodities & Commodity Trading
- Fixed Income Structured Products
- Option Book Management
- Quantitative Modeling of the Value at Risk
- Traded Credit: CDS, CDO, CVA, Loans
- Python Proramming for Finance
- Fintechs and other Banking Ventures in a Digital World
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.
