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Why study with the Brighton Business School? This course provides a professionally-relevant and rigorous educational experience, based on the grouped disciplines of economics and finance, quantitative methods and computing, and financial markets? regulation. It develops analytical capability and awareness of professional best practice, equipping you to deal with the challenges of new ideas and problems. Global financial markets are rapidly expanding and, with them, employment prospects for university-educated professionals. This course can help develop a career within the finance sector. The economics and finance pathway through the degree allows you to specialise in subjects that, whilst having a strong theoretical underpinning, still have a practical emphasis and allow you to pursue a wide range of career interests. Benefits of this course ?You will get to use our new real-time trading room, just one of a handful of universities to offer such an innovative facility. The room provides up to the minute data from Reuters and incorporates software that will allow you to become familiar with the products that are widely used in the financial services industry. ?You can enjoy a challenging and supportive learning environment in a business school which is well established, but not too big to treat people as individuals who matter. Who is the course for? The course is designed for graduates in economics or finance or who have a degree with a quantitative component and who wish to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to work effectively as professionals within the financial sector. Today?s financial markets professionals need to be competent with the knowledge and techniques found in the traditional disciplines of economics and finance and who are used to appraising opportunities using quantitative techniques and their associated computer applications. These skills, together with knowledge of the strategic and regulatory implications of financial markets will prepare you for a career in the demanding world of finance. Career Opportunities You will graduate with an academic and professional understanding of the financial markets that enables you to develop a successful career. Previous graduates have become investment advisers or analysts in financial institutions, regulatory agencies or consultancies. Opportunities are also available to progress to MPhil and PhD research degrees. Course Overview The core Capital Markets modules provide a firm grounding in the theory and practice of the operations of capital markets, including the pricing, valuation and risk management of capital market instruments, as well as an economic analysis of the relationships between the institutions that comprise the financial system. The Quantitative Methods in Finance module supports the other modules, and introduces the advanced quantitative techniques that are increasingly being used by practitioners. Specialist elective modules and the dissertation provide further opportunity to explore individual interests. The choice of elective modules includes: ?Advanced Corporate Analysis ?Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis ?Emerging Capital Markets ?Financial Market Regulation ?Financial Derivatives - Mathematical Applications ?Interest Rate and Currency Risk Management ?International Portfolio Management ?Portfolio Modelling and Dealing ?Governance and Ethics ?Current Issues in Financial Accounting ?Current Issues in Management Accounting. The masters concludes with a dissertation requiring individual research on a topic of your choice. Recent dissertation titles include: ?Real Options Approaches in Venture Capital Finance ?Stock Market Development in Emerging Markets ?The Credit Rationing Issue in the Russian Federation ?Basel Accord II and China?s Ranking Supervision Reform ?Stock Market Returns and Macroeconomic Forces: A case study of Thailand.

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