Indian Institute of Quantitative Finance

Certificate Program in Financial Engineering

Modern Investment Finance is hugely dependent on the implementations of the theories and techniques of financial engineering. Financial Engineering, or Quantitative Finance as it is alternately known, is a multidisciplinary field involving the application of theories from financial economics, physics, mathematics, probability, statistics, operations research and econometrics using the methods and tools of engineering and the practice of computer programming to solve the problems of Investment Finance.

Financial Engineering has emerged as a great career prospect for people with a strong mathematical foundation like those coming from engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics or econometrics backgrounds.

The Certificate Program in Financial Engineering (CP-FE) prepares students for technically sophisticated jobs with financial institutions, financial service providers, financial consulting services and financial software companies. The program is intended for students seeking comprehensive technical knowledge of vanilla and exotic derivatives pricing, hedging, trading and investment strategies and portfolio management in equity, currency, interest rates, credit and mortgages.

This is a short-term course that requires seven months of study for the core modules, which makes it attractive to students with strong quantitative skills who are willing to make a quick head start in the investment finance industry. The applied nature of the program implies the fact that there is great emphasis in it to impart the practical implementation skills and techniques that are actually used by practitioners in top financial institutions in the industry, so a considerable part of the course time is devoted to teaching implementation skills along with rigorous theoretical discourse.

This course is designed specifically to meet these exact needs. This is a course on modelling and applications of mathematics, statistics and econometrics in investment finance. The program covers the all the technical and quantitative aspects of investment finance used in top financial institutions.

The combination of skills imparted through this program viz. understanding of complex financial theories, rigorous exposure to the underlying mathematical and statistical theories, practical financial modeling ability and computer implementation proficiency, is in high demand in the industry, and which the employers do not generally find in graduates of standard MBA or engineering programs.