financial engineering v/s mba

[silversurfer]

hi ,

Does anyone has knowledge of financial engineering courses ...how can they help you if you wanna be in stock market/hedge funds/financial institution or be a fund manager??

does the regular 2 year mba course include financial engineering in depth ???

i am quite keen on knowing about this field and future prospects. I am a chartered accountant and working for the big4...

wht should i do to gain insight and later on expertise in this field ??


regards

silversurfer

[htowner]

Willmott forums are a great source to get started on your question. They have some awesome contributors there.

I only have this to share about FE in USA. I understand that if you turn out to be any good at it, *Financial Engineering is big time money on Wall Street (atleast). But you really have to be very very good at Math and from what i understand, FE is very sophisticated math. You will be what they call a "Quant" on Wall Street. *I am sorry i only have info about US schools, but Haas at UC-Berkeley is one school you might want to strongly consider for FE. I know a student there if you need specific help.

Schools strong in finance may offer more electives in the financial engineering area as part of MBA coursework, but i could be wrong.

Again, willmott will be a good place to get detailed info.

Hope this helps
Htown

[silversurfer]

hi htowner,

nice to know tht someone has some info abt this. will check on tht forum. i surfed d net & happened 2 come across a correspondence course at indian institute of chartered financial analyst of india(ICFAI)...

donno how much it will help as i have no statistics knowledge .....lost touch of maths... i guess then i should look out for full time courses....will check out the website u wrote abt & the college website too.



will get back dude....

thanx

[sunnybhaji]

hey folks ,
can anyone throw some light on the title.
MBA Vs. Financial Engg. Vs. MiF..
i tried to search..i got MBA Vs. MiF....
what about MiF Vs. Financial Engg...
if anyone has any knowl. can anyone tell what are the course details involved in Financial Engg.
what are the placement scenarios in various fields (except MBA ) in both the Mif and Financial Engg.

[Routhmanz]

dear vibhore,
hi,i am sanajay,a newbie PaGaL.i want to tell you that financial enigneering course is available in India.i t's offered by Indian Institute of Capital Markets(Formerly known as UTI Institute of Capital Markets). it's offerd at IICM through securities institute of australia.you can check the site utiicm.com and securities.edu.au.
securities institute of australia is a very reputed institute.you can do this course directly from securities institute through distance learning. you will get all the support like e-learning and tutorials etc.there'a shortage of these kind of institute,very soon National Institute of Securities Market will come into operation.it's being set up by SEBI.SEBI got this idea of this institute from securities institute.and now go through the websites and let me know.
Wishing you all the best
sanjay

[Routhmanz]

dear vibhore,
hi,i am sanajay,a newbie PaGaL.i want to tell you that financial enigneering course is available in India.i t's offered by Indian Institute of Capital Markets(Formerly known as UTI Institute of Capital Markets). it's offerd at IICM through securities institute of australia.you can check the site utiicm.com and securities.edu.au.
securities institute of australia is a very reputed institute.you can do this course directly from securities institute through distance learning. you will get all the support like e-learning and tutorials etc.there'a shortage of these kind of institute,very soon National Institute of Securities Market will come into operation.it's being set up by SEBI.SEBI got this idea of this institute from securities institute.and now go through the websites and let me know.
Wishing you all the best
sanjay

[sameer_kapadia]

hello u guys
finacial engineerig is a very though but i fee it has grt career porspectus
u could check out www.global-derivatives.com they have a forum where u can get started
and they also have a ranking of institutions providing masters in financial egineering.
but the problme is u nedd to be a wiz kid to get into the course(atleast in maths and c++
programming.dont worry abt pay
u can get around 100000$ (atleat this is what university of berckley has on its website)
but the problem is i myself also does not have a grt holding in maths
good can one guide me as to how to masters mathemathics?
suggestions welcomed and cousrse or degreee which could give u a respectable knowledge in maths?
thanks bye any thing else plz post