Corporate Finance (Michaelmas term)
Provides a comprehensive overview of firms’ financial decision-making.

Asset Markets (Michaelmas term)
Familiarises you with the workings of financial markets, and equips you with the fundamental tools of asset valuation. 

Private Equity* (Lent term)
Provides a thorough grounding in the theory and recent developments in the field of private equity.

Courses to the value of one and a half units from a range of options


Optional courses
Dedicated Courses

Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets*
Provides a thorough grounding in recent developments in fixed income securities pricing, hedging and portfolio management.

Topics in Portfolio Management*
Provides analytical and statistical tools for the management of investment portfolios.

Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings*
Covers advanced topics in Corporate Finance and Valuation and introduces students to valuation techniques for both securities and projects.

Financial Engineering* 
Covers the basics in derivatives theory, and to apply them to a multitude of financial securities and structured products.

Risk Management in Financial Markets*
Gives an overview of risk management in the context of portfolios of mixed income securities and derivatives, as well as dealing with credit risk.

Corporate Investment and Financial Policy*
Examines how to apply corporate finance concepts in a wide variety of business situations via the use of case studies.

International Finance for MSc Finance & Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity*
Covers advanced topics in international macroeconomics and introduces students to international corporate finance, financial management, risk exposure and FX hedging.

Non-Dedicated Courses

Quantitative Security Analysis*
Using information in financial statements and macro-economic variables to come up with the inputs into Merton-type models of viewing corporate securities as contingent claims on a firm’s assets.

Entrepreneurial Finance*
Evaluates business plans, growth opportunities and Venture Capital (VC) financing, covering a broad set of instruments used by entrepreneurial firms. 

In exceptional cases it may be possible to take an unlisted Finance Department optional course with the approval of the Programme Director.