Asset management MSc courses lure students
Earlier this month, London-based Cass Business School announced the launch of a new one-year full-time MSc course in pensions. Now Investment & Pensions Europe reports that Fachhochschule des bfi, a technical college in Vienna, Austria, is launching a new two-year part-time MSc for quantitative asset management.
Costing 13,500 and €17,900 respectively, both are less costly than an MBA, but neither are exactly cheap.
Richard Barry, head of graduate recruitment at fund manager Baillie Gifford, says they may also be superfluous: "There is a misconception in the student community that you have to have studied economics to get a job in investment management. We want people with a broad spread of degree disciplines. We'd rather have someone we can train in our own way of doing things."
For more information on the respective MSc degrees, visit Cass Business School or Fachhochschule des bfi.
