Finance: Quantitative Risk Management

The Duisenberg Honours Programme in Quantitative Risk Management is a challenging 84-credit programme that lasts 12 months. It fully prepares you to apply modern scientific methodology to the challenges faced by the modern financial world. It does so by offering you an integrated curriculum for the three core disciplines in this field: finance, econometrics and mathematics. You will learn the financial theories behind financial markets and price formation, and how to map this knowledge into profitable investment strategies. You will become conversant with the various ways to assess risks and the methods and products that can mitigate those risks. You will also build an extensive, advanced toolkit for applying existing models or for building and applying your own models to financial data. You will also gain practical skills by setting up a research project, gathering and processing the relevant data, conducting the research and testing research hypotheses, and by presenting a solid and credible research product verbally and in writing. Finally, throughout the curriculum you participate in a number of career services workshops to help you fully prepare for the job market.