如果您对数学和定量金融充满热情，并想用它来建立金融研究领域的丰厚事业，那么这是您的理想课程。该课程以您在经济学，会计或工程学等定量学科上的本科学习为基础，提供了一种以研究为导向的金融和投资方法。您将研究诸如计量经济学和预测，金融市场和机构以及投资和风险管理等专业领域，并发展高级分析和评估技能。您将广泛使用我们的彭博交易套件，通过我们的彭博终端，您可以宝贵地访问全球金融市场的实时数据。您将使用它与我们的先进计量经济学工具包相结合，构建先进的计量经济学模型，以进行预测，制定交易策略和检查对金融市场的政策影响。
If you have a passion for mathematics and quantitative finance, and want to use it to build a lucrative career within financial research, then this is the course for you. Building on your undergraduate studies in a quantitative subject such as economics, accounting or engineering, this course provides a research-orientated approach to finance and investment. You will delve into specialist areas such as econometric's & forecasting, financial markets & institutions, and investments & risk management, and develop advanced analytical and evaluative skills. You will make extensive use of our Bloomberg trading suite, where our Bloomberg terminals will give you invaluable access to live data from financial markets across the globe. You will use this, combined with our advance econometric packages, to build advance econometric models for the purposes of forecasting, developing trading strategies and examining policy implications for financial markets. The course is regularly refreshed to keep pace with advances in the financial sector, and is bench marked against the syllabus of the CFA Institute. The knowledge and experience that you will gain on this course will allow you to forge a successful research career. You can either progress within academia by continuing onto a PhD, or seek a position within the international financial sector as quantitative research analyst, where they are in high demand. You will leave Newcastle Business School highly knowledgeable about the theory and practice of international finance and investment. You will also have the ability to act and think strategically, meaning you will be well equipped to begin the next stage of your career.