1. Financial product design and innovation: The research contents in this direction mainly involve the design and innovation of financial products, financial innovation and research and development of financial instruments. Students need to master the skills of financial product review and evaluation, financial market risk management and financial instrument pricing.
2. Quantitative investment and risk management: Students need to master the knowledge of investment strategy, portfolio management, quantitative analysis, risk management and financial derivatives in financial markets, and be able to solve financial problems by using mathematics, computers and other methods.
3. Financial data analysis and decision-making: This direction mainly involves data analysis and decision-making in financial markets. Students need to master basic statistical and econometric methods, data mining techniques and financial risk management models. And can solve the decision-making problems in the financial market.
4. Financial technology and digital finance: This direction mainly studies the application of financial technology and the research of digital financial operation mode. Students need to master the application of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and other technologies in the financial field, and understand the development trend and experience of digital finance at home and abroad.
In a word, financial engineering, as an interdisciplinary subject covering finance, mathematics, statistics, computer and other disciplines, has a wide range of postgraduate entrance examination directions, which requires candidates to choose the appropriate direction in combination with their own interests and specialties for in-depth research.
Its core lies in developing and designing new financial products or services, and its essence lies in improving efficiency, including:
1, the creation of new financial instruments, such as the creation of the first zero-coupon bond and the first swap contract;
2. Development and application of existing tools, such as applying futures trading to new fields and developing a large number of options and swaps;
3. Combine the existing financial tools and means with combinatorial decomposition technology to compound new financial products, such as forward swaps and futures options, and build a new financial structure.