Investment and Financial Risk Management

City, University of London

United Kingdom, London

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City, University of London

United Kingdom , London

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

N390, N319

Campuses

Northampton Square

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2026

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 28,000 / year

Next Intake September-2026

Investment and Financial Risk Management

About

Overview

Investment and Financial Risk Management BSc (Hons) Who is it for?

Our finance courses are for students who want to progress with the knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the increasingly competitive world of global finance and banking.

The BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management is for students who want to work in a wide variety of finance and investment fields. Maybe portfolio management or investment analysis. Maybe corporate treasury or financial trading. You want to understand the role risk plays in investment decision-making and how to manage it.

*Gain your accounting qualification from a business school ranked 10th in Europe for Finance

*Shanghai Ranking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021

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The BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management provides exemption from some of the professional examinations of the following professional bodies:

Course objectives

Our three degrees in finance (Finance, Banking and International Finance, and Investment and Financial Risk Management) provide detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing and acquisition decisions and how modern banks operate.

If your goal is a career in the international investment and risk management world, consider this course your jumping off point. You’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of how modern investment analysts and risk managers operate. As you move through the degree you’ll prepare for your career in investment management, trading or analysis in any area of finance.

You’ll study every aspect of the discipline, from managing global investment portfolios to asset trading. All within a broad sweep of rigorous academic learning encompassing equity markets, bond trading, risk management, derivatives, hedging, investment banking and many other broad areas of risk and investments. As a result, you will gain a good understanding of financial markets, its activities and its products.

The jobs in this field are both exciting and well paid. They demand intellectual rigour and commercial acumen, and by selecting this course, you too can prepare yourself with the skills and competencies these jobs require.

Teaching staff

Malvina is a lecturer in Finance at the Faculty of Finance and the Academic Director of the Finance Cluster degrees at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London since August 2019.

Dr Malvina Marchese

Senior Lecturer

Accreditation details

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)

Knowledge

F1 Accountant in Business (AB)
F2 Management Accounting (MA)
F3 Financial Accounting (FA).

Skills

F5 Performance Management (PM)
F7 Financial Reporting (FR).

CII (Chartered Insurance Institute)

CII Insurance students: 530 Business and Economics (worth 30 credits at Advanced Diploma level), 25 non-unit specific credits at Diploma level
CII Financial Planning students: 30 non unit specific credits at Advanced Diploma level, 25 non unit-specific credits at Diploma level.

CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)

Certificate Level

BA1 Business Economics
BA2 Management Accounting
BA3 Financial Accounting
BA4 Ethics, Corporate Governance & Business Law
C01 Fundamentals of Management Accounting
C02 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
C03 Fundamentals of Business Mathematics
C04 Fundamentals of Business Economics
C05 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law.

Operational Level

E1 Managing Finance in a Digital world
P1 Management Accounting
F1 Financial Reporting and Taxation.

Management Level

P2 Advanced Management Accounting.

CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy)

Professional Certificate

Financial Accounting
Management Accounting.

Professional Diploma

Financial Management.

ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)

Accounting
Business and Finance
Management Information
Financial Management.

ICAS (The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)

Test of Competence

Financial Accounting
Finance.

The London Institute of Banking & Finance

Direct entry into Stage 2 (second year; FHEQ level 5) of the BSc Banking Practice & Management degree.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Standard home offer

A Level

AAA

Grade 4 (C) in GCSE English Language and grade 7 (A) in GCSE Maths
International Baccalaureate (IB)

35 points

overall with HL4/SL 5 in Mathematics and English
BTEC

DDD

Grade 4 (C) in GCSE English Language and grade 7 (A) in GCSE Maths

English Program Requirements

Information for international and EU applicants

For international applicants requiring a Student Route visa we accept any of the below English language proficiency qualifications at the grades listed.

Please note, the Official Certificate must be awarded OR the qualification must be verifiable online. Statement of Results will not be accepted.

The English Language qualification or test needs to have been taken no longer than two years from the date that the CAS is generated.

English Language Tests:

IELTS (Academic, UKVI or IELTS Indicator): 6.5 overall with no less than 6.0 in any sub test
IELTS One Skill Retake: Must be taken within six weeks of previous IELTS test. Accepted for one sub test where all other components and the overall score have been met.
Language Cert International ESOL: Language Cert B2 Communicator High Pass
TOEFL (Test centre or iBT Special Home Edition): 92 overall (24 Writing, 23 Reading, 22 Speaking, 21 Listening)
Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: 59 overall with minimum of 59 in each sub test
Cambridge English Advanced (also known as Certificate in Advanced English): Grade C (180 overall) at CEFR Level C1 with minimum 170 in each sub test
Cambridge English Proficiency (also known as Certificate of Proficiency in English): Pass qualification (all grades accepted)
Oxford Test of English 130 overall with minimum 120 in each sub test.

English Language Qualifications:

IGCSE: English as a First Language (Syllabus 0500 & 0522) or English as Second Language (Syllabus 0510 & 0511) at Grade B or above
International Baccalaureate: Grade 5 at Standard level or Grade 4 at Higher level
Trinity College (Integrated Skills): ISE III – pass in each area
INTO City Pre-sessional English: 6.5 overall with no less than 6.0 in any sub test (NB. Must be the 6 or 8 week Bayes-specific course)
Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE): English Language Examination grade 4 or above
GCSE English Language Grade C/5 or above but 1) Qualifications must be issued by Ofqual, SQA, Qualifications Wales or CCEA regulated body in the UK; 2) Education must be undertaken in a UK school
A Level English Language Grade C or above but 1) Qualifications must be issued by Ofqual, SQA, Qualifications Wales or CCEA regulated body in the UK; 2) Education must be undertaken in a UK school
Vitnemal English grade 5
French Baccalaureat: 14/20 in English
Malaysian GCE O Level (SPM-1119 syllabus only): grade A.

An exception to the above criteria applies to Student Route visa applicants from the below majority English-speaking countries for whom we can accept a wider range of English qualifications:

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Ireland
Jamaica
Malta
New Zealand
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom
United States of America.

Don’t meet the English language requirements? INTO City, University of London offers English language programmes to help prepare you for study at university.

These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for entry to degree courses:

Information for home applicants

In addition to the above English language proficiency qualifications accepted for International applicants, as a Home or EU applicant we can also accept any of the below English qualifications:

GCSE: Grade C or 4
O-Level: Grade C
A-Level: Grade C
Cambridge English First (also known as Certificate of First in English): Grade A (180-190) at CEFR Level C1.

Career

Careers

The majority of graduates from the Investment and Financial Risk Management course enter challenging and rewarding careers in the investment and risk management field as well as in the fund management industry.

Graduates keen to transfer their specialist quantitative modelling techniques take up front-office roles such as trading, bonds and stocks, while others are employed in market risk management and fund management or with regulators such as the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Find out the types of positions our graduates have gone on to here.

Graduate Outcomes survey 2020-21

80.0% of graduates in employment or further study six months after completing the course, with a median salary of £28,600

82.35%

Employed

11.76%

Further study

5.88%

Oher

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