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How many musicians and film producers are studying a Master in Finance? This is what we mean when we say we have the most diverse students in every classroom. Meet the Master in Finance class at IE Business School!

There are many ways to use your lunch break. Forbes recently published a list about it and I would like to benchmark it with the upcoming IE lunch events:

1. Make a plan – definitely!
2. Take a real break – yes!
3. Get up from your desk or work space – no doubt about it
4. Eat – food provided!
5. Enjoy your food – how do you best enjoy your food? In company…
6. Do what you can’t do in the morning or evening – you have to be at the office at a certain time, but don’t know when to leave. So, lunch is your only ‘secure’ time for off-office activities
7. Use the time to connect with someone new – promised!
8. Catch up with old friends – you can bring your friends!
9. Engage in activities that will help you re-energize – we will show you something that will motivate you for a long time
10. Network – up to you…
11. Don’t get stuck in a routine – sure you won’t
12.  Avoid all screens – re-edit: avoid almost all screens
13. Don’t take too long or too short of a break – one hour is just right

So, as long as you’re interested and keen to further your career you have 13 reasons to join our upcoming IE Lunch & Learn events. All events are held at The Executive Centre, Ocean Financial Centre (Level 40), Raffles Place in Singapore from 12noon to 1pm.

Global MBA+ / Executive MBA+
October 23, 2012
Registration

Global Executive MBA / IE Brown Executive MBA
October 31, 2012
Registration

Masters in Finance
November 6, 2012
Registration

Hope to see you there!

IE Business School has further consolidated its position as No. 2 school worldwide in finance according to the latest ranking of Masters in Finance published by Financial Times.

IE achieved this result for the second year running in the pre-experience category with its full-time English-taught Master in Finance, aimed at young professionals with an international profile. The student body of IE’s Master in Finance comprises 95% international students from 26 countries, with an average GMAT score of 680. They will complete the program at the end of this month to start work in international companies that include Morgan Stanley, Merril Lynch, Jefferies, Barclays Capital and Rothschild. The Master is the first program in Spain to be made a CFA (Chartered Financial Advisor) program partner, the leading international endorsement for financial analysts.

“The financial sector needs specialized profiles with an international focus,” says Ignacio de la Torre, Director of Masters in Finance at IE Business School. “IE’s finance programs equips students with this type of education, and our graduates go on to work in firms like Goldman Sachs, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Nomura, and in emerging economies that offer enormous potential given the accelerated development of their capital markets”. Read more…

What do the fields of Psychology and Finance have in common? If you were thinking “besides the fact that they are spelled without using any of the other word’s letters” than here is an opportunity to come up with a better answer to this question. Take out your agenda and block the following date to join our virtual master class

Date: May 30, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 15.00 (Madrid time), 21.00 (Singapore time)
Registration: IE Event Page

The Psychology of Finance  

Psychology plays a pivotal role in the pricing of assets. On average, during rainy days the stock market underperforms in comparison with sunny days. How human psychology affects these variables will be briefly viewed in this master class:

• Define behavioral finance and review the role of human behaviors in decision making
• Explain key behavioral biases
• Identify how biases may result in less than rational investment and corporate decisions 

The session will be spearheaded by Dr. Kevin Spellman who describes himself as a pracademic – he has academic and professional experiences. He is a Professor and Director of the Investment Game at IE Business School, and the Director of the Investment Management Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his PhD in behavioral finance from Durham University (UK), and has an MS in finance from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in finance from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. He is a member of the Financial Management Association, the CFA Institute, and has been a member of various CFA societies and a board member of the CFA Society of Madison. Dr. Spellman is a CFA charter holder.

Spellman’s academic pursuits (since 2000) have been in investments, including security analysis through portfolio management. His research focuses on issues related to behavioral finance, investment strategy, and asset pricing. He has taught various courses in financial management, investments, CFA review, and forensic accounting and has worked at various firms on the buy-side and sell-side of Wall Street. His experience crosses most asset classes (private equity, international equity, domestic equity, real estate, etc.), investment styles (contrarian, value, growth, momentum), and types of analysis (quantitative, fundamental, economic/strategic, behavioral)

We all hear this word at least a few times during the day. It’s a short one, starts with “c” and ends in “risis.”

It’s a word that has the power to change the world and can be found throughout history. This time, everything started with the collapse of the debt crises in the US, which led to financial problems for the rest of the world and a tremendous collapse of the global growth. Will the euro break up? Will the US dollar keep its reserve currency role during the upcoming decade? Why is the Japanese Yen weak after the last Bank of Japan intervention?

These are only a few questions on which we will focus during this Virtual Master Class, as its topic will be the foreign exchange market.

Virtual Master Class: Foreign Exchange Market
Date: April 18, 2012
Time: 3pm Madrid time, 9pm Singapore time
Registration: IE Event Page 

About the speaker

The session will be spearheaded by Carlos Gallo, Associate Professor at IE Business School and Head of Head of Total Return & R&D at Invercaixa Gestión S.G.I.I. Professor Gallo’s areas of interest include the evaluation and analysis of risk return relationships, optimal and efficient portfolios construction, fundamental analysis and valuation of companies and other kind of investable assets. He started his career at the Spanish Market for Futures and Options followed by his incorporation as a derivatives expert at HSBC Investment Bank in Madrid. Some years later he joined Invercaixa Gestión, SGIIC, and the financial management firm in which he handled specialist investments in global equity markets as the Japanese, British, Swiss and the euro zone. At present, he manages the total return funds as the Fund Manager, Asset Allocation Team.

The global financial system is providing us with more challenges than ever before. As a response, the financial sector is increasingly looking for individuals who not only have a deep understanding of financial markets, new financial products, risk control and the new financial structures emerging from the credit crisis, but also a competent knowledge in business management. However, young professionals with this kind of expertise are still hard to find.

In response to this, IE has launched its Dual Degree Master in International Management + Master in Finance. This Dual Degree will combine IE’s prestigious Master in International Management program with the sophisticated and deep financial education provided by the Master in Finance, ranked No.2 worldwide by Financial Times in June 2011. Our Master in International Management covers all the core fields of business such as entrepreneurship, strategy and accounting, whereas our Master in Finance looks at cutting edge fields such as corporate social investment, securitization, leveraged buyouts, behavioral finance and Islamic finance. All this is led by our dedicated faculty, 93% of whom are leading practitioners.

Dual Degree students will graduate in 17 months and start the Master in International Management from February to July and then, instead of taking the specialization course of Sales & Marketing, International Business or Digital Business in their 3th period (September – December), they will join the complete Master in Finance program from September to June of the following year.

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.

A group of students from the IE Masters in Finance progams assesed the development of microfinance institutions in Ghana.

The microfinance initiative “Financieros Sin Fronteras” (FSF) created by an IE fellow in collaboration with IE provides consultancy services to microfinance institutions internationally.

Eight students from the Master in Finance and the Executive Master in Financial Management, together with Maria Luque from IE, visited Ghana in order to team up with two microfinance institutions, Kraban Support Foundation and Calvary Enterprise Development Foundation, assessing them over their future plans. During the 4 day field trip, different managers of microfinance organizations and clients were interviewed by students in order to get a better picture of the microfinance sector in Ghana.

As one student puts it: “We helped the organizations to analyze the state of the sector and to set up a list of challenges which will be tackled by the organizations with the help of IE’s students.” A real life learning experience, created by students for students.

[First published on IE Learning Experiences Blog]

Luis Isasi, President of Morgan Stanley in Spain and Vice President of Morgan Stanley Europe took part in the IE Finance day held at IE Business School on September 22, where he examined the role of education in the finance sector.

Participants in the event included Ignacio de la Torre, Director of IE Business School Masters in Finance, who gave an address on The World in Crisis: what can we learn from Financial History? and Carlos García de Juana, Senior Advisor for Masters in Finance at IE Business School. IE Finance Day is a workshop where candidates, students and alumni of IE’s finance master programs can gain insights from leaders in the field as well as build networks.

IE Business School has an extensive portfolio of finance master programs, comprising its Master in Finance, Master in Advanced Finance, Executive Master in Financial Management, Executive Master in Finance Bi-weekly, and the new Global Master in Finance, a blended program that includes residential periods in Madrid and London.

IE Business School’s Masters in Finance portfolio is unique in the market, offering a total of 200 courses in fields that include non-banking finance, Islamic finance, and micro finance. The programs use an eminently practical approach, including education tools like investment competitions; simulations of portfolio management in real time using the Bloomberg platform; Zoologic, to learn how to use investment banking applications; or MatLab, software for programming fixed revenues. IE Business School holds the No. 2 position in the Financial Times ranking of Masters in Finance (June 2011).