Financial Math Programming: A new course is born

A new course is born…

Financial Math Programming is a brand new course within MIF (Master in Finance) and MIAF (Master in Advanced Finance). Similar to the financial engineering computer-based ones in Carnegie Mellon and MIT.

The course introduces numerical methodologies and computer programming in order to solve complex financial problems.

At the end of this course, students will be proficient in Financial Excel, Visual Basic (Excel) and Octave-MatLab software.

Students will be able to include the knowledge of three software packages in their CVs which, as a result, will be very useful in order to show quantitative/programming skills to potencial financial employers: Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, etc.

All double sessions will take place in a computer laboratory.

Specific areas like Random number generation, MonteCarlo simulation, Matrices, Correlation calculations, Efficient portfolio theory or derivatives programming will be covered.

This knowledge will be greatly applied in many other courses like: Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Fixed Income Derivatives, Hedge Funds, Value At Risk and many others.

In Spain many financial advisory firms like use MATLAB in order to value structured products and derivatives.