Master's Degree in Financial Risk Management
UNIR
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Campus location
Logroño, Spain
Languages
Spanish
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
1 year
Pace
Part time
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Introduction
Learn to evaluate and mitigate the risks associated with any financial product. The Master covers the contents of the GARP FRM™ title.
Do you dream of being able to face the financial risks of a black swan?
Then the Master in Risk Management at UNIR is for you.
The UNIR Official Master's Degree in Financial Risk Management prepares you to face the challenges of internationalization and digitization of financial markets to assess and mitigate the financial and non-financial risks of your company, financial institution, insurance company, or investment fund. Learn a solid quantitative foundation by applying Business Analytics techniques to make financial decisions.
Participate in practical workshops on Market Risk, Credit Risk and Investment Risk, and analyze real cases of globalized banks and insurers, investment funds, IBEX-35 companies and cases of digital transformation.
Acquire the essential knowledge to respond to new demands:
- Basic principles of portfolio theories (Arrow Debreu assets, martingales)
- Simple non-arbitrage valuations (forward contracts, currency swaps)
- Credit Risks (Merton and KMV, CreditRisk+)
- Market risk (stop-loss, exposure, stress testing)
Goals
The profile of the graduate at the end of the Master's Degree in Financial Risk Management will be a professional capable of developing his professional activity in an area of maximum relevance such as financial risk management in both financial and non-financial entities, prepared to assume the following responsibilities , by virtue of the acquired competences:
- Being able to apply the main models of valuation and management of financial risks
- Being able to identify and analyze the different financial products knowing the intrinsic risks of complex structures and derivative products
- Being able to manage different risks: credit, market, operational and technological
- Being able to draw conclusions about economic news and foresee the possible impact of these on the financial structure of the company
General information
- Duration: 1 academic year
- Face-to-face exams: at the end of each semester
- ECTS credits: 60
- Methodology: 100% online teaching
- Live Online Classes
- personal tutor
Methodology
Live online classes
We offer students the possibility of attending live online classes every day. During these sessions, students will be able to interact with the teacher and resolve their queries in real time, sharing knowledge and experiences. The training pace is adapted, as far as possible, to the needs of each group of students. Not attending a live class does not imply missing it. All sessions can be viewed on a delayed basis, as many times as you like. Thus, students who cannot follow the class live are not harmed.
Didactic resources
The UNIR Virtual Campus provides a wide variety of content with which to prepare each subject. These materials are organized in such a way as to facilitate fast and effective learning. In this way, you can access the topics that develop the contents of the program, key ideas of each topic (prepared by the subject's teachers), complementary audiovisual material, activities, readings and evaluation tests.
In addition, you will have access to master classes on specific topics and you will be able to participate in forums, chats and blogs in which you interact with professors and classmates, broadening your knowledge and solving possible doubts.
personal tutor
At UNIR, each student has a personal tutor from day one, always available by phone or email. The role of the tutor is fundamental in the trajectory of each student since it is the greatest link with the university and its point of reference during the training process.
Tutors offer personalized attention by constantly monitoring each student.
- Solve doubts about academic procedures, procedures or specific doubts about subjects.
- It helps to plan the study so that time is used better.
- It recommends which didactic resources of the platform to use in each case.
- He gets involved with the students' studies to help them pass each subject.
Evaluation system
To assess the level of achievement of the objectives obtained in the Master, it is necessary to evaluate the skills acquired during the study. The final evaluation of learning is carried out taking into account the qualification obtained in the following points.
- Continuous evaluation (resolution of practical cases, participation in forums, debates and other collaborative means and evaluation test).
- Final face-to-face exam.
- Master's Final Project.
Curriculum
Curriculum
First quarter
- Fundamentals of Risk Management (6 ECTS)
- Advanced Quantitative Analysis (6 ECTS)
- Financial Markets and Financial Products (6 ECTS)
- Assessment and Risk Models (6 ECTS)
- Management and Measurement of Market Risk (6 ECTS)
Second term
- Credit Risk Management and Measurement (6 ECTS)
- Integrated Management and Operational Risk (6 ECTS)
- Risk Management in Investments (6 ECTS)
- Final Master's Thesis (12 ECTS)
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Career Opportunities
Professional outings
UNIR Master's Degree in Financial Risk Management offers students numerous professional possibilities in qualified and responsible positions. Among others, it trains you to work as:
- Risk manager of financial entities
- Chief Risk Officer
- Senior Risk Analyst
- Head of Operational Risk
- Director of Investment Risk Management
- Consultant or risk analyst
- Professional in the risk area of large globalized non-financial companies