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On 10 January 2020 RMI hosted its annual on campus information session for the MFE Program’s August 2020 admission exercise. The information session, one of the last in person events held at RMI this year, presented to the participants the program’s curriculum, faculty, students’ profile, and job placement, among others.
When the safety measures were announced by the government to stop the spread of COVID-19, all MFE classes were moved online as pre-recorded sessions initially. To enhance students’ learning experience, all teaching modules were then made available ‘live’ to the students. Student’s feedback on virtual learning has been positive, allowing some new incoming international students joining the August 2020 cohort to take the classes virtually from their home countries and avoiding travel. Exam formats were also adjusted to accommodate the safety measures in place.
RMI also conducted a virtual career development talk for its MFE students on “Factor investing for the ‘information age’” hosted by Sanne de Boer, Director of Quantitative Equity Research at Voya Investment Management. He discussed how recent developments such as the increasing availability of alternative (i.e., non-financial) "big" data and advances in Machine Intelligence and Natural Language Processing will not fundamentally change the philosophy behind factor investing, but rather further its scope. Additionally, he also touched upon portfolio construction for active equity strategies.
The Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MFE) is a multi-disciplinary program that combines finance, mathematics, and computing with a practical orientation to solve problems in finance. The MFE was launched in 1999 by the Centre for Financial Engineering at NUS, the predecessor to RMI. It aims to equip finance and banking industry professionals and fresh graduates with current knowledge and skills in financial innovations and technology.
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