Pre-

Welcome class 2015pre-master MSc Finance

Studying finance in today’s world

• Program and time line• Communication• Feedback: program evaluation panel

Managing expectations:(2014: 14 started, 1 dropped out early)

• Investments: technical perspective, academic perspective (13 passed)

• Corporate Financial Mgt: more familiar, but parts are very different from what you are used to (14 passed)

• Math (10 passed) and Stats (10 passed): biggest stumbling stones, but needed for master

• Academic paper (13 passed)

• 77% = 10/13

Time line pre-masterInvestments

(dr Teodor Dyakov)

Corporate Financial Management

(dr Andre Dorsman)

Mathematics(dr Kazim Azam)

Academic Paper(dr Victoria Atanasov)

Feb-Mar Apr-May June

Statistics(dr Reinout Heijungs)

Managing expectations:

• Mathematrics, Statistics: prepare …

• Academic paper: start in advance to think about the topic, try to link with StatisticsBeware of pitfalls: no clear research question, too broad, no data or literature …

rooster.vu.nl

Keep track of your VU mail: webmail.vu.nlBlackboard: bb.vu.nlVU Net: vunet.login.vu.nl

No plagiarism

• No clue? See for example plagiarism.org• Cooperative learning is fine.

Cooperative writing (of individual work) is not. Neither is non-source quoting copying.

• We check for plagiarism• Plagiarism found:

sent to examination board + sanctions!!

Monitoring panel:we listen to you to further improve the program

Interested: mail Mrs. Tielman

mrs. Tielman(d.s.tielman@vu.nl)

dr. M. van GelderenCoordinator pre-master programs

(m.w.van.gelderen@vu.nl)

prof. dr. A. LucasProgram director

MSc Finance (a.lucas@vu.nl)

Time line FinanceAsset PricingAdv. Corp Fin

Empirical FinElective 1:Adv ValuationDerivatives…

ResearchProject

Fin Markets & InstitElective 2:Behavioral CFInst Investments

& FIBank Management

Thesis

…

Sep-Oct Nov-Dec Jan Feb-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Aug

XL + VBA:online

training + tests

Electives:Real EstateQFRM…

Welcome !

GOOD LUCK!