Master of Science - Computational Finance (Dissertation)

University of Essex offers research supervision for the MSD Computational Finance in the following fields: • agent-based modelling of financial markets; • computational risk management; high-frequency finance; • and the use of computational-intelligence methods for investment decision making.

University of Essex provides a vibrant research environment so the MSD students publish papers in prestigious international conferences and often attract the attention of industry and government; one of the PhD students was recently invited to present their research on term structure models to the Bank of England and many others get the opportunity to directly apply their research through internships at investment banks and hedge funds. University of Essex graduates have gone on to become quantitative analysts, portfolio managers and software engineers at various institutions, including major investment banks like HSBC and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities.