A Programme Tailored to Professional Needs

Programme Audience

The Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management offered by EDHEC-Risk Institute helps professionals to embrace and lead the major changes that will reshape investment management. It trains participants to appreciate recent and forthcoming paradigm shifts and equips them with the conceptual and practical tools required to improve the organisation of the investment process; optimise portfolio construction, risk management, and performance measurement; and design novel investment management approaches and solutions for institutional, private and retail investment management.

The programme is targeted at experienced investment professionals. It appeals to chief investment officers, heads of asset allocation/investment strategy/asset-liability management, heads of investment solutions/financial services, portfolio and risk managers, investment and risk analysts and officers, advisers and consultants. It is also of interest to professionals who have hitherto specialised in supporting roles such as financial modelling or programming, and wish to make lateral moves. It is relevant to a wide cross-section of institutions including third-party asset managers, private banks and wealth managers, investment banks, institutional investors (pension funds, endowments, foundations; insurance companies; sovereign investment vehicles), family offices, consultancies, and financial software companies.

Structure Tailored to Professional Needs

This specialist master’s programme is delivered over seventeen months of part-time study and formatted to be compatible with professional schedules. It is offered in Asia—from Singapore —and in Europe—from London and Nice.

The core and elective course requirements of the programme represent fifty full days. In Asia, they are delivered over three residential weeks and ten three-day blocks (from Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning in Asia, and from Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon in Europe). Some of the blocks may be taken as distance-learning sessions. This eases management of the demands of work, programme, and personal life and allows participation not only of London- and Singapore-based practitioners, but also of professionals who regularly travel to these cities.

Core courses are given every year in Europe and Asia so that missed modules requiring attendance may be made up, and the portfolio of electives offered in London and Singapore allows Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management candidates to select seminars that fit their professional objectives and constraints.

All core courses and electives take place in state-of-the- art e-learning classrooms to allow remote participation as well as asynchronous access to all class sessions attended.

Programme Timeline

Timely completion of this challenging and rewarding programme demands that participants commit an average of fifteen hours per week to readings, assignments, and class attendance.

Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management Timeline: Asia

S: Session taking place at the Singapore executive learning centre

Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management Timeline: Europe

N: Session taking place at the Nice campus
L: Session taking place at the London executive learning centre

Key Learning Benefits

• Appreciate paradigm shifts in investment management and their strategic and operational impact.

• Understand the recent advances in financial theory with respect to asset pricing and portfolio models and acquire the empirical finance tools to implement them.

• Review the fundamentals of strategic asset allocation and asset-liability management, explore their latest advances, and apply them to the needs of institutional, high-net worth and mass-affluent investors.

• Understand the specific characteristics of alternative investments and learn to integrate alternative asset classes into asset allocation.

• Bridge the gap between modern portfolio theory and portfolio construction.

• Understand the models, techniques, and applications of tactical asset allocation, learn to design and implement tactical models and to package them into investment solutions.

• Review portfolio insurance techniques and learn to blend active asset allocation and risk management to design risk-controlled dynamic asset allocation strategies for asset management and asset-liability management.

• Acquire state-of-the-art methods for the measurement and management of market, credit, operational, and liquidity risks.

• Understand how structured products are designed, priced, and hedged, learn to analyse their performance and risks, and assess their role in asset allocation and risk management.

• Use advanced tools for performance measurement and analysis to measure the performance attributable to each step in the portfolio management process and to individual portfolio managers.

• Optimise the contribution of specific asset classes and investment vehicles, and analyse current industry issues and investment themes.

• Obtain advance exposure to forthcoming developments in investment management theory and practices.

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