This specialist course enables you to develop quantitative skills in finance, providing training in programming, numerical methods and statistics. It provides a thorough grounding in pricing and risk management techniques. It allows you to develop the power of inquiry, critical analysis and logical thinking and to apply theory to current issues of policy. You will gain a good understanding of: asset pricing and investment pricing financial securities (equities, bonds, and derivatives) the main theories of finance, the CAPM and the Black-Scholes model interest rate models and interest rate derivatives the development of a research enquiry research issues and methodologies