EDUCATING LEADERS FOR 800 YEARS SAID … Oxford Masters in Financial Economics in brief 1. A full-time nine-month programme. 2. Provides training in the tools of financial economics

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WHY SAID BUSINESSS SCHOOL?

Oxford in the twenty-first century

1. Many of Oxfordshire’s 1,400 high-tech companies have links to Oxford University.

2. Oxford University has produced over 100 companies with a combined market capitalisation of over £2 billion.

3. The Oxford University society, Oxford Entrepreneurs, is the largest student entrepreneur society in the UK with 1,200 members.

4. Entrepreneurship Saïd provides support for entrepreneurs and runs over 100 entrepreneurship events a year.


Quick facts about Saïd Business School

1. Established in 1996, Saïd Business School is one of Europe’s fastest growing and most prestigious management schools.

2. The School is fully integrated into Oxford University and draws on Oxford’s strengths in economics, law, politics, and other disciplines.

3. Internationalism is a key feature. Our students come from over 50 different countries around the world.

4. Oxford has more academic staff working in world-class research departments than any other UK university.


The Oxford Masters in Financial Economics in brief

1. A full-time nine-month programme.

2. Provides training in the tools of financial economics sought by financial institutions, companies and public organisations.

3. Designed in consultation with leading financial recruiters.

4. Our students are placed with top investment banks, financial consultancies, and government finance ministries.

5. Run jointly by Saïd Business School and the Department of Economics at Oxford University.

6. Covers more than 70 per cent of the study required for all threelevels of the Chartered Financial Analyst programme.


Why study financial economics?

“On-the-job learning, traditional in financial institutions, is giving way to professional training of the sort lawyers or accountants receive; hence the need for a rigorous and bespoke training regime for this sector.”Howard Jones, Programme Director

“All the important ideas in finance - such as how to measure and price risk, the importance of capital structure, option valuation, and estimating the cost of capital - derive from seminal work in financial economics.”Tim Jenkinson, Professor of Finance


Economics underpins key finance activities:

Microeconomics: principal-agent models

Deal/corporate structuring

Economics underpinningFinance activity

Asset pricing; econometricsArbitrage/hedge funds

Microeconomics: auction theoryFinancing techniques

Macro/microeconomicsCompany valuation

Macroeconomics; asset pricing; econometrics

Financial market valuation

Why study financial economics?


1. The Masters in Financial Economics is NOT an MBA in Finance� You will develop a thorough and sophisticated understanding

of the foundations and applications of finance� But classes will be business school style� And you will be given professional training in practical

business skills and careers support.

2. The MFE is NOT a programme in mathematical finance or financial engineering� You will develop exceptional technical skills, but these are

not merely mathematical. � The emphasis throughout is on understanding the economics

of financial markets.

Why the Oxford Masters in Financial Economics?


1. The programme has been designed together with employers.

2. Graduates go into banking, hedge funds, private equity, public sector finance, asset management, law, consultancy and academia.

3. Last year’s class were employed by: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Blackstone Group, ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank, Scadden Arps, McKinsey, Mercer Oliver Wyman (among others).

4. On campus recruiting is the largest source of employment, followed by external advertising and networking.

Why the Oxford MFE? Careers


Speakers in 2006/7 included:� Hector Sants, Managing Director, Financial Services Authority� Mark Precious, Head of Equity Research, UBS� Jamil Baz, Managing Director in Proprietary Trading, Goldman

Sachs� Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Intl.� Darren Walker, Managing Director in the Emerging Markets

Group, Crédit Suisse � Anthony Mason, Director in the Emerging Markets Group,

Crédit Suisse� Keith Jones, CEO, Morley Fund Management

The MFE Senior Finance Practitioner Series provides students with insights into how the financial services sector is being shaped and provides the opportunity to network with key recruiters.

Why the Oxford MFE? Networking


1. Corporate finance� capital raising� dividend policy� pricing and conducting IPOs� structuring debt� how to read and use financial

accounts

2. Microeconomics� price discrimination� principal agent issues, applied to

financial intermediaries� auction theory, applications to

trading systems� game theory� bargaining and negotiation

3. Asset pricing� CAPM and other asset pricing

models� portfolio choice � yield curve modelling� derivatives� market efficiency and arbitrage

4. Financial Econometrics� understanding stochastic

processes � measuring risk and volatility � predictability of asset prices� time-series techniques� event study analysis

Course structure: core courses



� Advanced financial management

� Advanced financial econometrics

� Arbitrage opportunities and hedge funds

� Capital raising techniques� Competition and regulation� Continuous time finance� Corporate governance� Corporate valuation� Derivatives� Economics of industry


Course structure: electives

� Entrepreneurial finance� Fixed income� Lessons from financial history� Macroeconomics� Private equity� Restructuring and

implementation� Risk management� Taxation, finance and business

strategy� Trading and market

microstructure


1. You will be expected to use mathematical techniques, and to learn statistical skills rapidly. There will be pre-course maths classes and maths support classes during the first term.

2. No prior knowledge of economics is required and pre-course reading in economics will be suggested. However, many people in the class will have some economics training.

3. Being able to think conceptually and analytically is key.

4. To apply, you need a good undergraduate degree or equivalent. You are required to take the GMAT or GRE test.

5. Candidates whose first language is not English are also requiredto take either the TOEFL or IELTS tests.

Masters in Financial Economics: Requirements


4%

7%

UK)

42%

9%

Nationalities

UK

Africa

Middle East6%Europe (ex-

23%

AsiaAustralasia

South America

North America9%

Nature of first degree

Engineering9%

Maths/Science21%

Business11%

Accounting3%

Communication3%

Other(politics,law,

telecom)6%

EconomicsFinance

47%

2.1Average work experience (years)

50%Work experience

5:3Male:Female ratio

710 Average GMAT

785 (98%)

Average GRE Quantitative

34Number of countries

20 - 44Age range

24Average age

70Number of students

Masters in Financial Economics: Class of 2006-7


Why Oxford Masters in Financial Economics?

1. The intellectual rigour of a graduate programme with the delivery of a business school.

2. Thorough grounding in economics with practical applications to finance.

3. Quantitative training in finance with sound theoretical principles.

4. A global alumni network and a first-rate careers service.

5. Collegiate structure within one of the world’s great universities.

6. A state-of-the-art business school within an ancient university.


EDUCATING LEADERS FOR 800 YEARS SAID … Oxford Masters in Financial Economics in brief 1. A full-time nine-month programme. 2. Provides training in the tools of financial economics

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