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The Master in Advanced Finance class 2012 has already started! This year the class welcomes students from 13 countries of 5 continents, with an average age of 29, ranging from 24 to 36 years old, 23% women, and an average full time working experience of 5 years. The countries represented are: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India,  Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA.

19% of these students are CFA level II or level III holders, 42% of them have worked overseas and 31% studied their undergraduate degrees overseas before IE. 15% of the class are Dual Degree students (International MBA and Master in Advanced Finance).

The students started the course with two days of orientation where they attended several World Awareness Seminars, followed by official classes of the first semester.

If you wish to get more information on the Master in Advanced Finance, please join our events or visit the program website.

This week IE has inaugurated its Trading Room to better address market related assignments such as Portfolio Management, Investment Game, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Equity/Asset Valuation, Financial Programming, Equity Research, FX Markets.

Equipped with Bloomberg, FactSet, WONDA, EVA Dimensions, Thompson, Matlab, Reuteurs, TTR & Zoologic and other technologies, this facility has one of the top collection of analytical tools for a university/business school´s  investment lab in the world.

The Trading Room will be as well  the home to many finance classes of MBA programs which require to do analytical research on security pricing, brokerage, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and other analytics such as stocks, bonds, commodities, options and futures, and currencies.

The IE Masters in Finance portfolio is expanding adding the Executive Master in Finance bi-weekly and the Global Master in Finance. Both programs enable the possibility to combine the professional development with the educational experience. As a immediate benefit, the learning can be applied on a daily basis in the job. The Master in Finance and Master in Advanced Finance provide a full academic experience conducted within 1 year in Madrid.

Here are some more details and the links:

• Master in Advanced Finance- starting in January 2012- 12 months duration
• Master in Finance – starting in September 2012 -  10 months duration
• Global Master in Finance- starting in October 2012 -  14 months duration
• Executive Master in Finance Bi-weekly  – starting in February 2012 – 13 months duration

Despite the differences in the student profile and program delivery, all Master in Finance program share the following common features:

• Ranked #2 in first ever FT Masters in Finance ranking
• IE Business School – CFA Partnership (Finance full-time programs – CFA program partners)
• Faculty – 93% practitioners
• Well-rounded academic content: 120 core classes and 80 electives
• Technology Savvy – Trading Room, Bloomberg, Factset, Matlab, Zoologic
• Entrepreneurial focus – VC, Finance start ups, PE

Besides the information on the web, IE encourage interested candidates to join the upcoming virtual session dedicated to these Masters. Please register here. Please also see our blogs Blog Masters in Finance blog and see Mr. Ignacio de la Torre, Academic Director of the Masters in Finance at IE talking about our Master in Finance. Please click here.