Postgraduate news
This year's Peston Lecture, given by Dr Richard Lipsey in the College's new Arts 2 building, is now available to watch online at http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c2b327b2-ae02-4fc8-8864-eaad647a44b6
The topic of the lecture is 'Policy Implications of Alternative Economic Paradigms: Some Surprises from Endogenous Technological Changes'.
Richard G. Lipsey, FRSC, OC, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, has held professorial posts at the London School of Economics and Essex University in England, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, as well as visiting professorships at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Manchester, and the University of British Columbia. He was Senior Economic Advisor, C.D. Howe Institute (1983-89) and Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1989-2002).
Post date: 27th March 2012
The School is pleased to announce that Queen Mary will be part of the Russell Group from August 2012. The Russell Group is a group of 20, soon to be 24, research-intensive universities in the UK, committed to maintaining the best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience, and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.
Professor Simon Gaskell, Principal of Queen Mary, said: “We are delighted to accept the invitation to join the Group."
Professor George Kapetanios, Head of the School of Economics and Finance, said: "We are particularly pleased about this as our RAE results and NSS results have been excellent, and being part of the Russell Group further solidifies our excellent standing in both the academic and business worlds."
Post date: 13th March 2012
Don't forget - for outstanding postgraduate students, we offer many scholarships and bursaries.
Post date: 27th February 2012
To give students a head start in working in Finance, we are running extra classes such as Introduction to Electronic Trading, Portfolio Management, Bloomberg Training Programme and C++ for Finance. We also provide support modules in MATLAB/GAUSS, Behavioural and International Finance, Financial Derivatives, Empirical Finance, Risk Management for Banks, Asset Management, Quantitative Techniques, and Eviews. Read more
Post date: 27th February 2012
Congratulations to Raphaela Hyee, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Intrahousehold Distribution. It deals with the distribution of resources between spouses, and the influence the marriage market has on this distribution.
Raphaela was supervised by Paola Manzini and Giulio Fella. She is now working at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.
Post date: 20th February 2012
This semester, the School of Economics & Finance is running a number of ungraded modules with the aim of equipping students with further technical skills.
Below is information on what you can expect from two of the modules, all postgraduate students are welcome to attend:
Practical application of technical analysis in the financial markets - Deborah Owen
Mapping the markets - How cycle theory enables technical analysts to read equity markets
Deborah Owen, Chairperson of the Society of Technical Analysts and Managing Director of Investment Research of Cambridge, the first company in the UK to specialise in technical analysis. Deborah is co-author of 'Mapping the Markets'.
Pattern recognition - Clear patterns of price behaviour occur more often than the laws of chance would allow. Identifying these patterns enables traders to pick up market turning points.
George MacLean, Training Consultant, Linedata. George specialises in futures analysis and sovereign debt yield curve and spread analysis. He was formerly Director of European Technical Analysis at Standard & Poor's MMS.
Elliott Wave Analysis - harnessing the power of Elliott Wave analysis with the discipline of trend following.
Murray Gunn, Head of Technical Analysis, HSBC Bank. Murray is author of 'Trading Regime Analysis'.
Trend and momentum - using trend and momentum to capture market moves. Incorporating short term indicators to these trends can determine whether they are oversold or overbought.
George MacLean, Training Consultant, Linedata.
The power of technical analysis to predict collective behaviour in financial markets - The importance of crowd behaviour and mental discipline to successful trading.
Tony Plummer is the director of Helmsman Economics Ltd, a company that is dedicated to the analysis of economic and financial market behaviour from the perspective of history. He is a former director of Hambros Bank Ltd, of Hambros Fund Management Plc, and of Rhombus Research Ltd. Tony is the author of 'Forecasting Financial Markets', which is regarded as a seminal work on the influence of crowd psychology in financial markets. The book was first published in 1989, is now in its sixth edition, and has been translated into a number of languages.
Applied Portfolio Management – Jesse McDougall
(Evenings, 2 hour sessions)
The course will give a detailed look at how portfolio managers take finance theory and apply it in a real world setting. We look at Traditional equity portfolio management, fixed income portfolio management, hedging with derivatives, as well as how hedge funds operate. Particular emphasis will be spent on Alternative Asset Management portfolios and techniques, i.e., how hedge fund strategies work in practice. Practitioner taught by a Portfolio Manager of a Quantitative, Statistically-Driven strategy at a mid-sized Hedge Fund in the City.
Post date: 1st February 2012
This term has brought with it a variety of well-attended Careers events.
October boasted the QM Careers ‘Focus on Finance fortnight’, where a team from SEF won the ‘XING’ competition, and there were employer and alumni led events about working in risk, consultancy, financial planning and banking. Throughout the term there has been a high demand for Careers drop-in sessions, where students bring their queries for a short 1-2-1, reflecting how first years through to post-graduates are aware of the need to be securing relevant work experience and skills-building part-time work.
A highlight of the Careers events programme was the ‘Insight weeks and Internships forum’. At this, students who gained work experience last summer through family networks, speculative applications and the formal internship application channels shared their insights with others. This showed just how many ways there are to find work experience. Another great success was ‘Linked Up’, where nine-students each met 2 alumni working in finance for a 1-2-1, and learnt about the reality of working in different areas of finance.
On a personal note, I’ve been delighted to see some of the students who have used the Careers support succeed in gaining competitive insight weeks and internships at financial firms. I look forward in 2012 to seeing even more events and successes!
Post date: 1st February 2012
The computer lab in W307 now hosts 10 Bloomberg terminals for exclusive use by the School’s students. Bloomberg is one of the market leaders in providing business, economics and financial data to decision makers and the terminals give you access to the full Bloomberg set of financial and economics data.
In collaboration with Bloomberg, the School will organise a number of training sessions aimed at explaining the software’s functionalities to all students. One training session has already taken place in the first semester and more are planned for the new semester. Details of the training sessions will be circulated by email and posted on the School’s website.
Post date: 1st February 2012
Professor Martin Weale, prominent member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and Visiting Professor within the School has delivered two very interesting talks on the UK monetary policy and on quantitative easing to all our postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Students will have the opportunity of engaging again with Martin in the second semester when he will be moderating a students-led debate on the Euro crisis. More details of the event will be circulated soon. Keep checking your email!
Post date: 1st February 2012
This year the QUMMIF Postgraduate Investment Club will be arranging various internal and external events. Some of the events planned for this year are;
- Portfolio Manager Day Event taught on campus on various aspects of portfolio/ risk management by our very own professors; Jessie McDougall and Patrick Boyle.
- Bloomberg and VBA Automatic Trading Integration Workshop with Training Traders Partnership. This will be a great opportunity to learn about the Bloomberg terminal.
- Anton Kreil - Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management Be A Professional Trader 1 Day Workshop. (Ex Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Trader)
- Bloomberg Live Market News / Rumour Trading
- Etiquette Event; where associate members of the club will have the opportunity to learn the code of behaviour expected within the confines of business and society
- Ball Event at Rocket Restaurant. An end of the year event for all associates, sponsors, recruiters, members and staff of the University.
- Queen Mary as a CISI Centre of Excellence
More information on these events will be available closer to the time, please look out for emails! This academic year's QUMMIF team are as follows;
- Tomasz Mlynowski- President
- Muyang Chen - Deputy President
- Adnan Khan Jan - Vice President
- Anton Truhhan - Vice President Training and Development.
- Alexandr Shrestha- Vice President Sales
- Hirija Sugandiran - Vice President Events Management and Logistics
- Lan Hsuan Tseng- Vice President Treasury
If you have any queries regarding the above events, please contact Hirija Sugandiran: h.sugandiran@qummif.org for further information.
Post date: 1st February 2012