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金融工程概要

(2014-11-25 17:49:09) 下一個

金融工程概要

金融工程英文為Financial Engineering or FE in short。金融工程進二十年在美國發展迅速,雖然近幾年有滑落趨勢,但市場仍然極為廣泛。各大院校推出不同名稱的金融工程,如計算金融 (computational finance),金融數學(Mathematics of Finance, financial Mathematics),金融碩士(master in Finance),計量金融(quantitative Finance),數學金融(mathematical Finance),金融中的數學(Mathematics in Finance),等等。其實,不同稱謂下,內容大同小異。

從大的方麵講,FE包含三個主要方麵:數學(包括概率統計隨機過程),計算機,和核心金融。下麵從每一方麵在展開來。

數 學主要有數學分析、實分析、微分方程、數值計算、概率、統計、隨機過程。當然,每個學科都隻是其中極小一部分被用到。所以,當你熟悉這些內容之後,就會發 現,並不那麽可怕。這個方麵的集大成者,是隨機微積分(Stochastic Calculus)。如果隨機微積分掌握好了,那數學方麵就基本上過關了。

計 算機包含兩個方向,一是應用程序開發,另一是算法設計。應用程序又分兩個子方向,寫程序和使用相關軟件和軟件包。算法包括部分傳統的算法內容和個別人工智 能、模式識別內容,但最主要的是運用算法原理來設計和實現FE裏的數學模型。常用的軟件和語言包括微軟的Excel/VBA, C++, SAS, R, MatLab, Java,但幾乎熟練其中一種,能完成作業和課程項目即可。

金融方麵則在基本的金融市場和簡單定價基礎上,主要需要的有:經濟計量學(Econometrics),金融衍生品(Financial Derivatives),投資組合管理(Portfolio Management),和投資風險管理。

當 然,不同的FE Program會有不同的側重點,如技術分析、程式化交易(algorithmic tradeing), 高頻交易(high frequency trading),風險管理,甚至數據淘金(data mining)等。從下麵的這些FE Program細則中,你將了解到它們的共同和不同之處。

最後,附一個由QuantNet給出的2013-2014的FE Program排名,跟我所了解的沒有明顯的衝突:
 

RANK UNIVERSITY PROGRAM TUITION
1
100
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Computational Finance
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$77,100
2
99
Columbia University
New York, NY
Financial Engineering
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$56,808
2
99
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Master in Finance
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$84,140
4
98
Baruch College, City University of New York
New York, NY
Financial Engineering
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$35,040
$24,315
4
98
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Financial Engineering
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$58,895
6
97
New York University
New York, NY
Mathematics in Finance
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$62,000
7
92
Columbia University
New York, NY
Mathematics of Finance
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$54,720
8
90
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Master of Finance
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$74,900
9
88
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
MEng, FE concentration
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$69,000
10
82
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
Quantitative and Computational Finance
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$54,144
$20,772
10
82
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Financial Engineering
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$55,600
12
79
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Mathematical Finance
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$47,250
$28,539
12
79
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Mathematical Finance
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CAD 42,000
14
78
Boston University
Boston, MA
Mathematical Finance
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$65,955
14
78
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Financial Mathematics
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$51,012
16
75
NYU-Poly
Brooklyn, NY
Financial Engineering
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$44,979
16
75
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ
Quantitative Finance
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$58,317
$35,445
18
74
Fordham University
New York, NY
Quantitative Finance
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$50,875
19
73
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Financial Mathematics
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$60,000
20
70
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Financial Engineering
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$51,000
$25,500
20
70
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Financial Engineering
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$63,184
$33,671
20
70
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Financial Mathematics
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$40,470
$32,870
20
70
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Computational Finance & Risk Management
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$37,800
20
70
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA
Financial Engineering
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$64,896
25
62
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL
Mathematical Finance
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$49,104


 

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