Stanford University will run a six-month, part-time training programme in Hong Kong for professionals in the application of engineering methodologies and quantitative methods in finance, offering them the chance to put theory into practise.
Taught by Stanford faculty, the programme will include seminars by industry practitioners, who will also be involved in the curriculum and programme structure.
Introduced by executive training provider China Education Group, the Financial Engineering Programme is run in partnership with Stanford University's management science and engineering department, and the Stanford Center for Professional Development.
It will prepare participants for technically sophisticated jobs with organisations that require comprehensive technical knowledge of arbitrage, hedging, futures and options pricing, portfolio management, trading, and dynamic investment strategies in bond, currency, options and other financial markets.
Students will learn to employ theoretical finance and computer modelling skills to make pricing, hedging, trading and portfolio management decisions.
Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, and tools of mathematics and programming.
China Education Group programme director Tony Hui Tsan-hing said the group's advisory council board was made up of senior investment bankers and business leaders. 'We have been in talks with several senior investment bankers from banks such as Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley,' he said.