Projects

What is the purpose of the team project?
As part of the Masters in Finance, participants are required to complete a substantial team project - in pairs - which is equivalent to one course unit. The project allows participants to apply concepts from the core courses to a selected real-life case study. This typically involves the analysis of an event, transaction or situation, and provides an excellent opportunity for participants to demonstrate that they can produce a significant piece of analysis that puts into practice the ideas, concepts and techniques that they have learned on the programme.

Those participants wishing to specialise or be awarded a concentration in a particular area of finance can use their project, together with their elective choices, to explore their chosen area in even greater depth.

Some MiF individual project titles
The following is a small selection of the projects undertaken by MiF students during 2007, but it gives a good indication of the breadth of topics that have been tackled.

• Are We Witnessing a Bubble 2.0?  Evidence From Recent Technology Transactions
• Foreign Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance and Stock Performances in Korea
• Stop-loss Setting in Trading Strategies
• Empirical Asset Pricing on Real Estate
• The Success Factors in International Corporate Governance
• An Analysis of Capital Structure Arbitrage in Emerging Market Companies
• Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk in Cross Border Acquisitions
• Can Behavioural Finance be Applied to Poker?
• A Study of Private Equity in Africa
• Structured Credit Engineering: CPPI, CDO and  CPDO
• Carbon Trading: A Study of European and (Proposed) Australasian Carbon Trading Systems
• Analysis of the Acquisition of Arcelor by Mittal Steel
• Beyond the Momentum Factor: CAPM and Behavioural and Social Anomalies on Stock and Portfolio Performance
• How did the Private Equity Owners of Debenhams Add Value?
• Practical Alpha Extraction from Learning Based Portfolio Selection Algorithms
• Are Illiquid Stocks Necessarily More Risky?