Year 1: Covers fundamental disciplines including economics; financial accounting; law; quantitative methods; and an introduction to financial markets and institutions; business courses and French, German or Spanish for business are available as electives. Year 2: Specialised compulsory subjects include: corporate risk management; and mathematical finance; other compulsory modules include: investment markets; security analysis; principles of finance and business statistics; the wide range of electives includes: company valuation; risk analysis and modelling; personal finance; decision analysis; life assurance and pensions; real estate valuation and forecasting. Year 3: Optional placement. Final year: Covers equity investment; fixed income portfolio management; derivative trading and hedging; financial engineering and asset-liability management; electives include: forecasting; advanced corporate finance; advanced financial economics; continuous stochastic modelling; and corporate finance; students also undertake a 10,000 word dissertation.