Accounting & Finance Investment Management

The programme aims to: 

1. impart financial and investment management knowledge and skills to students to enhance their financial decision making;
2. facilitate students to understand and analyze contemporary issues as well as the latest development in the financial world;
3. prepare students to sit for the CFA examinations based on the Candidate Body of Knowledge;
4. equip students with the latest technologies on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for financial industry;
5. stimulate students to apply financial intelligence to perform investment management.

The target student groups for this programme are financial services practitioners who need to understand treasury from the customer’s perspective and would like to pursue in-depth knowledge of banking and corporate treasury function in global financial markets. Practitioners such as front office dealers, specialists in treasury banking operations, corporate treasury specialists, treasury risk analysts, treasury management product analysts, treasury and pension officers, corporate treasury back office specialists, internal auditors in treasury operations, or consultants are suitable to attend the programme.

TMA will offer the TMA Level 2 (Full Member) membership to graduates who have successfully completed this programme.

 

This Postgraduate Diploma is one of the most comprehensive courses offered by HKU SPACE in Investment Management. It is designed to follow the CFA syllabus and to focus on the current market trends and regulatory progression. This programme attracts a diverse group of students with background from finance, engineering, technology, business, management, government. Tutors are all market practitioners. 

This degree programme allows students to achieve the knowledge of 'effective management' to understand the operation of organisations by exploring different disciplines; economics, finance, organisation theory, mathematics and statistics. The programme is also suitable for people who are interested in general management, further studies in management or related disciplines, as it provides an in-depth study of the both economics and general management options.
 

This degree provides students with a significant insight of the financial role in industrialised economies by exploring the financial markets, interaction between financial intermediations and all other financial institutes. Not only students will learn about the pricing of financial assets and why and how corporations issue various types of assets, but they will also look at the operation of domestic and international intermediations.

** The former BSc Banking and Finance award title is now only available to students who registered in 2022-23 or earlier. The NEW BSc Finance will follow the same curriculum as the former BSc Banking and Finance.
 

The programme is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire merger and acquisition process, with particular focus on important issues related to accounting and taxation such as consolidation issues and fair value measurement. Students will also be introduced to different aspects of due diligence in the M&A process, such as red flags, due diligence programme structure and parties involved, so that they can prepare the due diligence report at the end of the programme.

The programme aims to prepare students for taking the Financial Risk Manager Part I examination and provide them with a sound theoretical grounding in financial risk management. The programme covers various risk measure techniques to perform financial analysis and investment management. It imparts financial and investment knowledge and skills to students to enhance their financial decision making.

課程旨在教授學員認識另類投資，比較另類投資產品與傳統投資產品的分別，了解另類投資產品如名錶、葡萄酒及烈酒、非同質化代幣(NFT)、環球房地產、可交易配額、與另類投資相關的上市交易所買賣基金(ETF)等，從而將另類投資產品加入投資組合。此外，本課程亦會指導學員就有關另類投資產品進行投資分析，選擇適合自己的平衡投資策略。
 

近年金融市場瞬息萬變，環球經濟充斥很多不穩定因素，投資者要於日趨複雜的投資市場獲利，便須進一步了解各種投資產品，運用各種交易策略以增加投資回報及避險。 本課程包含股票、外匯、衍生產品及對冲基金的投資理論，引用實例講解複雜的交易策略，讓學員掌握不同市况的投資策略。

課程旨在教授學員如何運用基本分析方法研究上市公司股票的內在價值，應用股票價值評估方法以選擇公司股票。此外，也會指導學員對作為投資目標的上市公司進行分析及作出財務預測，並討論價值投資方法及股票投資策略。