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Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. MSc International Business – Finance. Dr. Stefanie Kleimeier May 21st, 2008. Why a MSc in Finance in Maastricht?. Stimulating program Internationally recognized faculty Job-oriented Real world business know-how
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MSc International Business – Finance Dr. Stefanie Kleimeier May 21st, 2008
Why a MSc in Finance in Maastricht? Stimulating program Internationally recognized faculty Job-oriented Real world business know-how Seamless transition from Bachelor’s to Master’s Demanding, rigorous, and fun!
Relation to other UM Masters MSc IB Finance Corporate Finance, Financial Management MSc Financial Economics Financial Markets and Prices, More Quantitative Mphil EFR Preparation for PhD Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Why Finance in Maastricht? Strong reputation of Finance Department Around 40 faculty members in the department Many faculty members have business experience sell- & buy-side investors, consultants, bankers… and tight links with key financial players!
Why Finance in Maastricht? This year FEBA participated in the Financial Times’ rankings (among top 40 European institutions) In the category ‘value for money’ education, FEBA has a staggering 3rd place. UM alumni are ranked an amazing 2nd position in the category ’top salaries in industry’, and 8th in the category ’top salaries in finance’!
Network examples ABP / APG (NL) Robeco (NL) KPMG (NL) De LageLanden (NL) Fortis (NL) AXA IM (Fr) SocieteGenerale AM (FR) Morgan Stanley AM (UK/NL) • Many faculty members have business experience • sell- & buy-side investors, consultants, bankers… • and tight links with key financial players! • UBS (UK) • Barclays Global Investors (UK) • MLP A.G. (Ger) • Oppenheim (Ger) • Deutsche Bank • Nomura (JP) • Schroders AM (UK)
What do we offer? 4 concentration courses 5 electives to choose from Skills to write a thesis Master’s Thesis
Term 1 Block 1: Corporate Governance and Restructuring Stake/Share holders, Privatization, LBO Prof. Keuleneer (UM and KPMG) Dr. Kleimeier (UM)
Term 1 Block 2: Corporate and Venture Finance Advanced financial decision-making in firms Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Venture Capital Dr. Bodnaruk (UM)
Term 2 Block 3: Behavioural Finance “Non-financial” explanations (e.g. Investor psychology) Irrational Investors? Dr. A. Hoffmann (UM)
Investor Psychology Example: Do Women Outperform Men? Male investors earning lower returns, higher risk? Investor psychology? - Males too overconfident, aggressive, investors? - Women more conservative, reserved traders, make fewer costly transactions? - Our research team provided some answers: link
Term 2 Block 4: Risk Management How to manage risk in financial institutions Market, credit and operational risk Regulatory framework Prof. dr. Donders (UM and Robeco)
Why risk management? Think about recent mortgage crisis negligent risk-management at banks? Bad government supervision? Long-term capital management Famous hedge fund collapse Failure of orange country High-school dropout becomes responsible for losing $1.7 billion of taxpayers’ money due to risky investments and bad risk management RM tools also applicable to corporate risk: governance scandals, credit risk, tax exposure
Electives Block 2 Institutional Investors Prof. Dr. Bauer (UM and formerly ABP Investments) Block 3 Fixed Income Management Dr. Bams AAG (UM and De Lage Landen) Block 4 Real Estate Finance Prof. Dr. Eichholtz (UM and Finance Ideas) Empirical Analysis of Financial markets Prof. Dr. Schotman (UM) Global Banking Dr. Straetmans (UM)
To sum up:Why a MSc in Finance in Maastricht? Stimulating program Internationally recognized faculty Job-oriented Real world business know-how Seamless transition from Bachelor’s to Master’s Demanding, rigorous, and fun!
We look forward to welcome you to our finance courses !! If you have any further questions: J.Derwall@finance.unimaas.nl Room B1.14 Faculty of Economics and Business Administration