Four years full-time (including one year work placement) or three years full-time What you study Prepare for a career in fund management, investment management and stockbroking on a course designed in consultation with industry practitioners and professional bodies. This course gives you an in-depth knowledge of finance and investment, and covers key areas such as • derivatives • portfolio management • principles of investment • mergers and acquisitions • strategic issues in financial services. In the first year, you get a broad grounding in finance and related topics to ensure that you have a sound platform on which to build. Starting in the first year, and throughout your course, we regularly provide you with opportunities to develop your IT and numerical skills. Your second and final years focus primarily on finance and financial markets, in line with your specialism. This develops the key skills required of you by employers, and offers you a greater understanding of the different financial roles within organisations.
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The course is designed to help you gain employment in fund management, stockbroking, investment management and financial markets. Common areas in which graduates find jobs include wealth management, fund management, financial advising, trading, investment banking and financial risk management. As a graduate of this course you can follow in the footsteps of former students, who have found well paid employment in the banking and financial services industries with organisations such as Investec, Bartlett, Lloyds Bank, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Redmayne Bentley. Graduates are likely to go on to further professional study with common routes being via the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), Chartered Financial Analysts Institute (CFA), and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).