Financial Engineering -- The Only Way to the Ivory Tower
Professional highlights and characteristics
• New majors bred by the undergraduate, master and doctoral integration of financial disciplines in Hehai University
• Applied economics as a supporting discipline ranked among the top 30 in East Asia
• Supported by 7 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, including World Water Valley and Water Ecological Civilization, Jiangsu Coastal Resources and Economy Research Center, and East Resources and Environment and Sustainable Development Research Center
• Based in Changzhou, Nanjing, radiating the Yangtze River Delta and facing the whole country, strive to build a discipline development plan of Jiangsu brand specialty or provincial first-class specialty within 5 years.
Professional introduction
Financial engineering is a cutting-edge discipline emerging in the financial field of western developed countries in the mid-1980s. It takes modern financial activities as the research object, financial innovation as the core, economics, finance, financial engineering and financial management theories and knowledge as the basis, and comprehensively uses engineering and computing technologies and methods to study fixed income securities and develop financial derivatives and risk management technologies, A new financial discipline to solve complex financial problems has strong creativity, application and technology. The professional content includes not only financial product design, but also financial product pricing, trading strategy design, financial risk management and other aspects.
The major of financial engineering has broad prospects for development and potential market demand. This major adapts to the needs of financial innovation and financial competition under the open conditions, cultivates the basic ability to design, develop and comprehensively use various financial instruments to creatively solve financial practical problems, and conducts financial risk management, corporate finance, investment strategy planning and financial product pricing research Large enterprises and government departments cultivate high-quality and complex modern financial talents. Financial engineering graduates are mainly employed in the investment management departments of Chinese and foreign commercial banks, securities investment companies, trust investment companies, insurance companies, other financial institutions, enterprises and institutions, and government agencies. Mainly engaged in investment and financing analysis, quantitative investment, financial services, establishment and application of derivative pricing models, model validation, model research, program development and risk management.
The direction of this major is derivative financial instruments. By taking the courses of this major, you can not only master the knowledge and skills of financial engineering, but also get the training of derivative financial instruments, have the ability to engage in securities investment, quantitative investment, hedge management and operation, and more adapt to the needs of society and the times. In addition, this major trains students to apply the theory and methods of financial engineering to solve the problems with characteristics of the water conservancy industry, and have the ability to engage in the design of water finance products and investment, financing and risk management of infrastructure such as water conservancy.
