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Financial Modelling and Optimization (Taught)

Course details
  • 2 Study options
  • Postgraduate
Course location
Central area campus

Course summary

This programme gives you a flexible syllabus to suit the demands of employers that use modern financial tools and optimization techniques in areas such as the financial sector and energy markets.

We will give you sound knowledge in financial derivative pricing, portfolio optimization and financial risk management.

We will also provide you with the skills to solve some of today’s financial problems, which have themselves been caused by modern financial instruments. This expertise includes:

  • modern probability theory

  • applied statistics

  • stochastic analysis

  • optimization

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The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

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