Investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, corporate treasuries and regulatory agencies apply the methods of Financial Engineering.

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Global Demand for Financial Engineers

Two decades ago, only a handful of Wall Street specialists needed the mathematical knowledge to create pricing algorithms and risk curves. Today's global financial transactions and rapid advances in technology have led to a critical demand for professionals who can quantify, assess, price and forecast increasingly complex financial outcomes. This has led to the development of an important new field - Financial Engineering.

Placement Opportunities for Financial Engineering Graduates

Risk Manager

Investment Bankers

Asset Managers

Proprietary Trading

Derivative Product Development

 

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Career
categories


Risk Manager
Generally speaking, a Risk Manager is in charge of the process of measuring or assessing risk and developing strategies to manage it by using traded financial instruments. Strategies include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting partial or all of a particular risk.

Associated positions:
Risk Analyst; Risk Administrator; Risk Associate; Credit Analyst; Quantitative Risk Management; Credit Risk Specialist; Credit Quantitative Specialist; Risk Modeler; Associate Risk Controller



Investment Bankers
Investment Bankers raise money for a company, through a stock or bond offering and handle larger sums that need investing especially via special investments such as derivatives (swaps, etc); also it includes mergers, divestitures and other restructuring of companies.

Associated positions:
Investment Banking Analyst; Investment Banking Associates; M & A Analyst; Operation Manager



Asset Managers
Asset Managers are responsible for the process of money managing for individuals, typically via stocks, bonds and/or cash equivalents according to specific stated objectives or investments styles.

Associated positions:
Portfolio Manager; Compliance Officer; Compliance Analyst; Portfolio Analyst; Equity Analyst; Portfolio Administrator; Product Advisor



Proprietary Trading

Proprietary Trading is trading the firm's own funds. Stocks, bonds, options, commodities, or other items are some typical instruments. It makes a market in the stocks and bonds and provides liquidity to the markets.

Associated positions:
Proprietary Trading Analyst; Trading Desk Support; Trading Business Analyst; Algorithmic Trading



Derivative Product Development
Derivative Product Development includes creating, pricing, marketing, delivering structured product solutions and OTC derivatives solutions to clients, and positioning the above structured and OTC product solutions with a wider portfolio context.

Associated positions:
Derivative Product Specialist; Structured Product Specialist; Derivatives Processing Analyst; Equity Derivatives Analyst; Structures Product Manager; Structurer; Derivatives Product Sales; Solution Manager

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Program Alumni
have been employed by:


AIG-Huatai Fund Management Co., Ltd
Shanghai, China

CITIC Securities
Beijing, China

Credit Suisse
New York, NY

Duke Energy (formerly Cinergy)
Cincinnati, OH

Eurex
Chicago, IL

First Energy
Akron, OH

FirstMerit
Akron, OH

Geneva Trading
Chicago, IL

Group One
Philadelphia, PA

Infinium Capital Management
Chicago, IL

Key Bank
Cleveland, OH (12)

Kingstree Trading
Chicago, IL (2)

LaSalle Bank
Chicago, IL

Merrill Lynch
New York, NY

National City
Cleveland, OH (2)

SS&C Technologies
Windsor, CT

SUEZ Energy Marketing NA, Inc.
Houston, TX

Teradata, a division of NCR
Beijing, China

TransMarket Group
Chicago, IL

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MSFE program
provides a premier
education for future
financial and
commodity traders,
analysts, and
managers.”

 

Charles Snider
Reuters Training Houston