Economics And Financial Engineering - Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio Finanziario

Master: Economics and financial engineering - Valutazione e gestione del rischio finanziario

* Master di I Livello

* Directors: Maria Ida Bertocchi

* Master's staff: Allevi Elisabetta, Bertocchi Maria Ida, Consigli Giorgio, Consiglio Andrea, D'Ecclesia Rita, Giacometti Rosella, Moriggia Vittorio, Ortobelli Sergio.

* Educational objectives and employment opportunities: The Master is directed at those who operate, or would like to operate, in the following positions: -As financial risk manager in financial institutions, in insurance and in the financial unit of medium-large companies -As traders, dealers, and asset and fund managers -As property advisors -As financial advisors in credit companies or in financial intermediary companies -As personnel attached to inspection positions (internal auditors, inspectors, internal inspectors) -As personnel employed in the positions of surveying, monitoring and reporting upon market, credit and operational risk. The Course is also aimed at the demands of business consulting and information technology enterprises involved in projects which are aimed at providing methodologies and solutions to the measurement and management of business risk. The objectives of the programme are: -To provide the participants with an advanced knowledge of recent developments in financial theory; -To develop in the participants the capacity to use derivatives to control risk in funds, stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies as well as in other active and passive strategies; -To develop in the participants the capability of understanding institutional aspects, organizations, and the regulations of financial management; -To provide the participants with an ability to apply a quantitative understanding to modern financial theory; -To supply the participants with a knowledge of information technology that can be applied in the starting and realisation of financial projects.
The Master has been designed in conjunction with the Universities of Palermo, Roma La Sapienza and Cyprus, all of which have signed an agreement so that the Master is recognised as international. There will be a study period abroad of between 6 months and a year to be spent at the Master of Finance of the University of Cyprus, with the possibility of taking exams which will count towards the Master in Bergamo, being involved in a work experience/project work, or work upon the Master thesis under the supervision of a Cypriot professor