Responding to the Government’s desire to create a more front-office oriented international financial services sector, the University of Limerick has created a masters programme aimed at equipping graduates with the necessary technical skills for specialised fund-management, hedge-fund and proprietary trading / capital markets operations, Bernard Murphy writes.
Dr. Bernard Murphy holds a PhD in Finance from the Financial Option Research Centre at Warwick Business School and lectures in both financial engineering and in financial econometrics on the MSc in Financial Services programme.
This article appeared in the March 2004 edition of Finance Magazine.