Beginning this July, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, together with the Indian School of Business (ISB), will launch a new executive program built around financial engineering. The six-month program, the first of its kind, is designed to help financial experts who manage large assets for individuals and companies better harness financial engineering skills in their work.
“The level of financial and technical savvy required by organizations in today’s global financial markets has accelerated the demand for well-trained financial engineers,” UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian said in a statement announcing the new program. “The ISB-UCLA Anderson partnership presents a valuable opportunity to maximize the strengths and academic prominence of both schools,” she continued.
The Indian finance market continues to grow at a very rapid pace, and with it grows the need for managers trained to anticipate and solve the issues they confront in asset management. The new ISB-UCLA Anderson executive program, which will be quantitatively oriented than traditional MBA programs, will be taught by leading experts and world-renowned finance faculty from both schools. The program’s supervisors, including two former American Finance Association presidents, are all leaders in their field.
The program was borne out of a series of meetings with corporate finance leaders, financial experts and policy makers, who together expressed the need for finance professionals to better understand India’s evolution and its impact on the world economy.
It will consist of four one-week teaching modules delivered once a month and will be held at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, from July through December. The modules are core concepts, quantitative asset management, financial risk management and security research, analysis and valuation.
The first module, which includes understanding the fundamental principles of financial engineering, will be mandatory for all participants. The remaining three modules are options, giving students to choose one or more of the other subjects according to their professional interests. In the last two months of the program, students will work on projects with supervision by ISB and UCLA Anderson faculty members.
“I am delighted with the partnership of the ISB with UCLA Anderson,” said Indian School of Business Dean M Rammohan Rao in a statement. “This program will be extremely beneficial to finance professionals and will equip them with an accurate and precise knowledge of up-to-date financial economics and financial practice,” he added.
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