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Bloomberg fixed income training sessions

Tibor Szigeti from Bloomberg has given two training sessions on specialized Fixed Income topics to postgraduate students on Master’s Finance suite in Kent Business School. Students and Finance staff jointly participated to the state-of-the art presentations and engaged in lively … Continue reading

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Kent Business School academic elected to the board of Methods in International Finance Network

Kent Business School’s Dr. Ekaterini Panopoulou has been elected on the board of Methods in International Finance Network. The Methods in International Finance Network (MIFN) aims at promoting research in the domain of international finance. It provides a platform for researchers and … Continue reading

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KBS paper makes SSRN TOP 10 DOWNLOADS list within days

A recent research paper co-authored by Dr Silvia Stanescu and Prof Radu Tunaru, entitled ‘Investment Strategies with VIX and VSTOXX Futures’ has ranked among the TOP 10 most downloaded papers in its category within days of it being uploaded onto the Social Science … Continue reading

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Bloomberg training for Kent Business School students

Richard Hong from Bloomberg provided an excellent training session to students in MSc Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking at the end of last month. Students engaged in lively discussions and were happy to see how the finance … Continue reading

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28th October paper to be published in the Journal of Bayesian Analysis

The paper ‘Objective Prior for the Number of Degrees of Freedom of a t Distribution’ jointly authored by Professor Stephen Walker and Cristiano Villa is to be published in the Journal of Bayesian Analysis.

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30th October Bloomberg Training session

Students on the MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk programme took part in a session in the School of Mathematics Finance Lab to explore further the functionality and analytics offered by Bloomberg platform. The session led by Bloomberg analysis and … Continue reading

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KBS trip to Bloomberg

Kent Business School has organised a trip to Bloomberg for the new cohort of students. Thus, students from MSc Financial Markets will visit Bloomberg on Nov 8th and students from MSc Financial Services in Banking will visit Bloomberg on Nov … Continue reading

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Plenary talk on the future of bank risk management: strategic ALM

On Friday 25th October Dr. Moorad Choudhry, RBS treasurer, will give a plenary talk on THE FUTURE OF BANK RISK MANAGEMENT: STRATEGIC ALM in Kent Business School. Students from MSc Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking will have … Continue reading

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Richard Hong from Bloomberg talk

On 3rd October Richard Hong from Bloomberg gave a plenary talk to students from MSc Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking. Students found the talk very interesting given that their curriculum includes real-world applications using data from Bloomberg. … Continue reading

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Students of MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk awarded CFA Scholarships

Jhaneshi Jugessur and Nainam Seedoyal who successfully completed the Masters in Finance, Investment and Risk in 2013-2013 and gained Distinction in the final classification, have been awarded scholarships by the CFA Institute for the CFA examinations. Each year the CFA … Continue reading

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