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Welcome class 2015pre-master MSc Finance
Studying finance in today’s world
• Program and time line• Communication• Feedback: program evaluation panel
Managing expectations:(2014: 14 started, 1 dropped out early)
• Investments: technical perspective, academic perspective (13 passed)
• Corporate Financial Mgt: more familiar, but parts are very different from what you are used to (14 passed)
• Math (10 passed) and Stats (10 passed): biggest stumbling stones, but needed for master
• Academic paper (13 passed)
• 77% = 10/13
Time line pre-masterInvestments
(dr Teodor Dyakov)
Corporate Financial Management
(dr Andre Dorsman)
Mathematics(dr Kazim Azam)
Academic Paper(dr Victoria Atanasov)
Feb-Mar Apr-May June
Statistics(dr Reinout Heijungs)
Managing expectations:
• Mathematrics, Statistics: prepare …
• Academic paper: start in advance to think about the topic, try to link with StatisticsBeware of pitfalls: no clear research question, too broad, no data or literature …
rooster.vu.nl
Keep track of your VU mail: webmail.vu.nlBlackboard: bb.vu.nlVU Net: vunet.login.vu.nl
No plagiarism
• No clue? See for example plagiarism.org• Cooperative learning is fine.
Cooperative writing (of individual work) is not. Neither is non-source quoting copying.
• We check for plagiarism• Plagiarism found:
sent to examination board + sanctions!!
Monitoring panel:we listen to you to further improve the program
Interested: mail Mrs. Tielman
mrs. Tielman([email protected])
dr. M. van GelderenCoordinator pre-master programs
prof. dr. A. LucasProgram director
MSc Finance ([email protected])
Time line FinanceAsset PricingAdv. Corp Fin
Empirical FinElective 1:Adv ValuationDerivatives…
ResearchProject
Fin Markets & InstitElective 2:Behavioral CFInst Investments
& FIBank Management
Thesis
…
Sep-Oct Nov-Dec Jan Feb-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Aug
XL + VBA:online
training + tests
Electives:Real EstateQFRM…
Welcome !
GOOD LUCK!