MSc in Finance and Private Equity
Programme codes: TMFIPE
TMFIPEW (Work Placement Pathway)
Academic-year (10 month) programme (TMFIPE). Students must take three compulsory courses (FM410 Private Equity includes a dissertation) and optional courses to the value of 1.5 units. Admitted students are required to attend the Quantitative Methods September course. The dissertation must be submitted by the third week in June.
Students who choose to transfer to the Work Placement Pathway must undertake a work placement and assessment in addition to the courses listed above. Transferring to the Work Placement Pathway extends the duration of the programme to 12 months. Students have the option to transfer to the Work Placement Pathway upon receipt of an offer to undertake an internship placement, which must be approved by the Department. Students on this pathway are required to undertake a full-time internship or work placement during the summer and to submit an essay of 2000 words following the placement (see FM411 for details). The essay will be assessed on a pass/fail basis and students must pass the essay to graduate from the programme.
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Corporate Finance | |||
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Asset Markets | |||
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Private Equity (H) | |||
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Three of the following half unit courses (students must select at least two courses from the list of dedicated options marked (*). Students on the Work Placement Pathway must also select FM411 Finance Work Placement and Assessment: | |||
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Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) + | |||
Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (H)* | ||||
Topics in Portfolio Management (H)* | ||||
Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (H)* | ||||
Financial Engineering (H)* | ||||
Risk Management in Financial Markets (H)* | ||||
Corporate Investment and Financial Policy (H)* | ||||
Corporate Finance Theory (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||||
Applied Computational Finance** | ||||
International Finance (H) | ||||
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In exceptional circumstances it may be possible to take an unlisted optional course with the approval of the programme Director. | |||
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Work Placement Pathway | ||||
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Students are required to write a 6,000 word dissertation in FM410 and must sit examinations in all other courses. | |||
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+ with the approval of the course leader. | |||
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** This course is not for credit and can be taken in addition to courses to the value of three half units selected from Paper 4. | |||
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*** This element is not for credit, but is a requirement for students on the Work Placement Pathway and must be taken in addition to courses to the value of two full units selected from Papers 3 & 4. Successful completion of FM411 is a requirement for students to be eligible for the award of the degree. | |||
The Bologna Process in relation to taught master's programmes of nine or ten months duration.
