MSc in Finance and Private Equity

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Programme Code: TMFIPE

Department: Finance

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.


Paper	Course number, title (unit value)
Paper 1	FM422 Corporate Finance (1.0) ^#
Paper 2	FM423 Asset Markets (1.0) ^#
Paper 3	FM410 Private Equity (0.5)
Paper 4	Courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following. Students must select at least two courses from the list of dedicated options in List 1 and can select the third course from either List 1 or List 2:
	List 1
	FM405 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (0.5) ^#
	FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management (0.5) ^#
	FM407 Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) ^#
	FM408 Financial Engineering (0.5) ^# (not available 2021/22)
	FM408E Financial Engineering (0.5) ^#
	FM409 Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) ^#
	FM414 Corporate Investment and Financial Policy (0.5) ^#
	FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) ^#
	FM477 International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity (0.5) ^#
	List 2
	FM404 Forecasting Financial time Series (0.5) ^# ^* ^A (not available 2021/22)
	FM412 Quantitative Security Analysis (0.5) ^#
	FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) ^#
	FM478 International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity - Dissertation (0.5) ^# (not available 2021/22)
Additional course	The following course is not for credit and can be taken in addition to courses to the value of 1.5 units selected from Paper 4:
	FM457 Applied Computational Finance (0.0) (not available 2021/22)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

* means available with permission

Footnotes

A : FM404 requires approval from the Course Leader.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Students are required to write a 6,000 word dissertation (replacing the exam) in one of the half unit courses. Students will be required to attend teaching for the course which they choose to write their dissertation on.

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