Global Master in Finance | IE Business School

Global Master in Finance

Study part-time, work full-time. Discover interactive, blended learning.

  • Length:
    14 months
  • Label:
    Masters in Finance
  • Profile:
    Executive
  • Language:
    In English
  • Format:
    Blended
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At a Glance

A combination of face-to-face sessions with online interactive learning


The Global Master in Finance is the newest addition to IE’s portfolio of Finance programs. This intensive, 14-month blended program combines face-to-face sessions in Madrid and London with online, interactive learning. It has been designed for executive professionals wishing to develop their careers in the finance industry.

The Global Master in Finance offers an international vision of financial markets, a better understanding of the economy and the markets post-credit crunch, knowledge on new routes of financing such as Islamic finance and the technical knowledge in state of the art financial fields such as equity and credit derivatives.

The program's innovative blended format allows continued learning and connection between classmates for the duration of the program. Participants are able to follow the program regardless of their geographic location, travel schedules and work commitments.

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Pre- Program
1 week
Pre-program (optional)

Introduction to General Program

Intake 1:
OCT - DEC

Optional, introductory courses in Financial Accounting and Quantitative Methods are available to students on enrollment to the program. They are aimed at students wishing to refresh their basic technical skills in these areas. This courses are in a self-study format and are overseen virtually by an expert tutor.

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Face to Face
Face-to-face periods

Methodology

Intake 1:
OCT - DEC

The Global Master in Finance combines 3 residential periods in Madrid and London with online, interactive learning. The success of the program's blended format requires that courses commence and conclude face-to-face, allowing ample time for important community-building and networking between classmates and also with faculty, before the courses transition online.  

The London face-to-face period is an intensive week of company visits, interaction with top industry professionals and classes.

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Online
Online, interactive periods

Methodology

Intake 1:
OCT - DEC

Online periods emphasize interaction. The Global Master in Finance revolves around IE's Virtual Campus, a learning platform that has been customized over time to build learning communities across the globe. Through a careful blend of virtual team work, live videoconference and asynchronous discussion forum, students stay connected and learn together across timezones and locations.

This combination ensures the same quality and excellence shared by all IE Business School master programs.

Courses
  • Individual preparation Students prepare individually for team-work, videoconference classes and discussion forums by reading cases, technical notes and/or assigned chapters, or conducting reasearch as designated by each professor.
  • Virtual team work Students are divided into groups by profile and background so they may benefit from their classmates' experience and knowledge. Students use an array of virtual tools to maximize team interaction across geographies.
  • Live videoconferences Videoconference sessions enable students to see and hear professors and classmates. Students participate from home, the office or while traveling. Sessions last 90 minutes and commence at 15:30 (Madrid time) every Saturday.
  • Asynchrous discussion forum Class forums enable the class to analyze case studies together. From Tuesday to Friday, each discussion forum is guided by a professor, allowing students the flexibility to participate at their own convenience.
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Core Courses
GMIF Core Courses

These courses make up the Core component of the Global Master in Finance.

Intake 1:
OCT - DEC

Topics are analyzed through participants’ discussion of real business cases and simulations under the guidance of the professor, who leads and focuses the debate.

Courses
  • Quantitative Finance A methodology and solid knowledge base for the use of statistical and econometrical tools in finance. Students are provided with common statistical and econometric techniques in the industry.
  • Foreign Exchange Markets Focusing on the problems encountered by a multinational CFO, this course is the international sequel to corporate finance, exploring the financing & investment questions within a multi-currency setting, with attention on risk management.
  • Behavioral Finance Psychology plays a pivotal role in the pricing of assets. How human psychology affects these variables will be covered in this course, which will run though the most up to date literature on these issues.
  • Employability in Finance Run by independent experts from the industry, this course will cover topics such as personal branding, job-offer negotiation and successful interviewing techniques.
  • Valuation and Equity Research The course explains the foundations of the sell side process within the equities world by focusing on how analysts look at listed companies and build their valuation models interacting with the buy side.
  • Fixed Income Derivatives: Structured products FI Structured products are not well understood by most financiers and regulators. This course covers not only the plain vanilla products (flow), but the most exotic too, plus hybrid instruments and securitizations.
  • Advanced Corporate Finance A critical analysis of the different equity valuation methodologies, with their advantages and disadvantages in different scenarios and contexts within the capital markets.
  • Islamic Finance Islamic finance is an increasingly important field of investment. A deep understanding of the mechanisms used to issue Sharia-compliant products will be a big asset for any future financier.
  • Commodities Participants learn about the main types of the increasingly important commodities. The course will also explore the main options used to trade commodities or to hedge commodities risk.
  • Advanced Issues in World Economy Focusing on the economic environment, this course enables students to have an informed opinion on different positions in the current economic debate, and their implications for businesses and financial markets.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions This course applies the knowledge acquired in corporate finance and valuation courses and will explore how deal-making is structured from the point of view of the companies and from that of corporate financiers.
  • Economics for Markets Key macro information for financial markets, including how macro data should be read in order to have an informed opinion of where to invest, and recent macro developments that will shape the world in this century.
  • Asset Allocation We examine the challenges faced by CIOs when allocating savings in global portfolios, as well as the big global flows based on top-down investment.
  • Risk Governance This course focuses on the identification of risk. The objective is to lead students to discuss the different types of risk generally accepted.
  • Financial Inclusion An important part of the future of the financial industry, this course covers socially responsible investments, investing in climate change, corporate governance, financial reporting.
  • Financial Accounting Analysis Accounting analysis skills which any financier should master to excel in his/her function. These courses will be biased towards international accounting, creative accounting detection and financial analysis.
  • Corporate Finance This course explores the foundations of financial theory through of the analysis of the financial situation of a business and drivers of the cost of capital, the evaluation of capital investment decisions.
  • Derivatives The foundations of risk control in the different underlying asset classes: fixed income, equities, credits, commodities and foreign exchange (FX).
  • Financial Modelling The course will deal with the effective use of the spreadsheet as a basic tool for financial analysis, data modeling, construction of financial models and specific tools oriented to financial analysis.
  • Investing in Emerging Markets Focusing on the BRICs, this course encompasses EM profiles (consumer-based countries, commodity producers etc), the tools to invest (from ETF to ADR), how to edge, risks & barriers, investment trends and the increasing weight of consumers, housing, energy, etc.
  • Portfolio Management (Investment Game) In this counrse, student will have to build equity, bonds and currency portfolios simulating real life experiences and using live market data.
  • Fixed Income Fundamentals This course is a practical analysis of how bonds are traded in financial markets and the key determining factors of their performance and valuation. The course will also cover key aspects of hybrid markets.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition and Private E

Entrepreneurship through Acquisitions

Intake 1:
OCT - DEC

The course “entrepreneurship through acquisitions” will show students how acquiring an established business through a management buyout supported by private equity and a well structured financing, is a viable tool to become an entrepreneur. In this course students will seek for potential investments suitable for a private equity and select these opportunities together with the financing to a selected audience of private equity professionals.

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