Investment and Financial Risk Management (with Professional Placement)

BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management is ideal if you're fascinated by how investment decisions are made, and the risks behind them. Whether you're aiming to become a portfolio manager, investment analyst, corporate treasurer or trader, this course gives you the tools to understand financial markets, assess and manage risk, and make confident, data-driven decisions.

At Bayes, you'll learn from industry experts, gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools, and graduate ready to make your mark in finance.

Our three degrees in finance (Finance, Banking and International Finance, and Investment and Financial Risk Management) provide detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing and acquisition decisions and how modern banks operate.

If your goal is a career in the international investment and risk management world, consider this course your jumping off point. You’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of how modern investment analysts and risk managers operate. As you move through the degree you’ll prepare for your career in investment management, trading or analysis in any area of finance.

You’ll study every aspect of the discipline, from managing global investment portfolios to asset trading. All within a broad sweep of rigorous academic learning encompassing equity markets, bond trading, risk management, derivatives, hedging, investment banking and many other broad areas of risk and investments. As a result, you will gain a good understanding of financial markets, its activities and its products.

The jobs in this field are both exciting and well paid. They demand intellectual rigour and commercial acumen, and by selecting this course, you too can prepare yourself with the skills and competencies these jobs require.

• Appreciate the usefulness of quantitative finance in today’s financial markets

• Formulate, examine and test hypotheses using all scientific risk management/investment tool

• Learn how to apply academic and vocational skills to investment and risk management problems

• Comprehend the role and functions of modern financial intermediaries and investment markets

• Understand the practice of applied investment and risk analysis

• Fully grasp the risk management process and the associated tools

• Appreciate the importance of hedging and the role of derivatives/spot trading.

Course Modules

You can find extensive information about the modules you can expect to study on this course on our website:
https://www.bayes.citystgeorges.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/investment-and-financial-risk-management

Our teaching style is based on encouraging you to think independently, to form your own opinions and critique relevant theory. We underpin your learning with the pertinent theories in your field embed with real life practices so you understand the way modern markets and businesses operate. Our courses offer numerous practical applications (or have a strong vocational element) without compromising their academic rigour. We use case studies, thought provoking scenarios and group work to give you a head start in the real world.

Percentage of the course assessed by coursework

Each module will be a mix of lectures, seminars and group work. Most modules are assessed by a combination of exams and coursework. The first year of your programme contributes 10% to your final degree classification, the second year 30% and the final year 60%.

The approximate percentage of the course assessment, is as follows:

Year 1

70% written, 0% practical, 30% coursework

Year 2

70% written, 4% practical, 26% coursework

Year 3

61% written, 0% practical, 39% coursework.