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Master of Science in Finance
Position Yourself for Success
Understand the role of finance in business. This full-time program is based in downtown Vancouver and teaches you the fundamentals of finance, asset pricing, data analytics, investment banking, and private equity. But it鈥檚 not all theory. You鈥檒l also be able to manage the Student Investment Advisory Service Fund, an investment portfolio with a market value of over $30 million CAD.
Academics
Gain a professional edge with 911吃瓜 Beedie鈥檚 MSc Finance program, built on a foundation of academic excellence and practical application. Our rigorous curriculum is designed to deepen your expertise in financial theory, quantitative methods, and investment analysis鈥攕kills essential for navigating today鈥檚 fast-paced financial markets. Learn alongside a diverse cohort of aspiring finance professionals, and benefit from faculty who bring a wealth of industry experience and research excellence into the classroom. Whether your goal is to launch or accelerate your career in finance, our program prepares you to thrive in a competitive global landscape.
Curriculum
Our MSc Finance program is a full-time, 16-month program delivered in-person over four terms. It offers a wide selection of courses based on a foundation of financial theory and real-world experience. All students take core finance courses in the first two semesters and are exposed to fundamental finance theory and practice, as well as learning practical programming skills in a language such as Python before moving into the Investment Management stream. The program also includes a highly competitive optional internship program, allowing students to enhance career readiness.
Core courses
- Principles of Finance
Principles of Finance offers a general introduction to corporate financial management, covering key topics such as time value of money, discounted cash flow techniques, financial securities, capital budgeting, risk-return trade-offs, capital market efficiency, and cost of capital. It serves as a foundation of subsequent courses and aims to equip participants with problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills. - Principles of Investments
The course provides a fundamental understanding of the principles of asset management with the primary focus on the North American markets. Topics include fundamentals of bond valuation and the term structure of interest rates, stock valuation, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, efficient markets and portfolio performance. - Financial Data Analytics
Financial Data Analytics combines key notions from financial econometrics with essential data analytics that are at the intersection of statistics, probability theory and Finance. It provides a set of tools that are useful for testing theoretical models in Finance, modeling financial data, and predicting future price trends. Tools such as regression analysis and hypothesis testing are covered in detail and explored with the help of Python problems. - Principles of Fund Management
This course provides an introduction to managing stock and bond portfolios from a practitioner鈥檚 point of view. This course is a pre-requisite to working on the SIAS Endowment Fund. The course will cover investment policy, allocation of assets to different asset classes, selecting specific securities, managing portfolio risk, an introduction to fixed income investing, and reporting to clients. - Corporate Finance
This is an encompassing, graduate level, corporate finance course. It is broad in scope and covers basic valuation concepts, portfolio theory, the CAPM, financing decisions and market efficiency. Students learn why corporate finance is fundamental for understanding economic growth and for achieving optimal decision making. - Derivative Securities
This course covers the fundamentals of derivatives 鈥� securities whose value is derived from underlying assets or securities. The course focuses mostly on options though we will also touch upon the other three primary derivative securities: forward contracts, swaps, and futures contracts. You'll learn about the organization of the markets in which these securities are traded, the mechanics of trading them, and effective trading strategies. One of the key goals is to explore the practical applications of derivatives, including risk management strategies and paper trading exercises. Finally, we'll delve into tools available from a leading online broker. By the end of the course, you'll have a good understanding of the exciting world of derivatives and the role they play in modern finance. - Fixed Income Analysis
The goal of the course is to develop a conceptual framework for fixed income valuation and risk management. The course will introduce you to valuation of fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives including bonds, mortgage- and asset-based securities. You will learn analytic tools used in bond portfolio and interest rate risk management including yield curve construction, duration and convexity, and term structure models. - Managerial Communication
This course is designed to assist you improve your written and verbal communication skills in business settings. You will gain confidence in navigating important communication events. These skills will strengthen interpersonal and business relationships. Topics include analysis of personal development in your communications using various mediums, writing, speaking persuasively, and collaborating with a team. Exercises will include individual and group communication, along with presentations. - Business Strategy & Ethics
Strategy is all around you; it defines you as a manager and separates the bad from the good or great organizations. The overall objective of this course is to train you to think strategically so that you can look at a multitude of factors and forces swirling around a company and make sense of them, in order to recognize certain patterns, to identify emerging new ones, and make good decisions with far reaching impact on the long-term performance of your organizations, and the organizations you may invest in. - Negotiations
Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more parties who are interdependent and who are seeking to maximize their outcomes. The central issues of this course deal with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of mixed-motive (competitive and cooperative) situations. The course is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers, professionals and business owners. - Professional Development
Through experiential and applied learning opportunities, students will understand and experience the fundamental components of job-search and career progression skills for securing employment and achieving career objectives. Co-curricular opportunities will complement and build upon the learning experience, and contribute to overall development and personal branding.
Investment Management Stream
- Investment Banking & Private Equity
This course mixes financial theory with concrete applications in investment banking and private equity settings. The main areas of study are around Corporate Finance, Equity Valuation and Investments that are of importance to investment bankers and private equity professionals. - Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing
This course covers the theory and empirical evidence relevant for investing, particularly in the context of portfolio management. (i.e., Markowitz optimal allocation, CAPM, Index and multi-factor models). It stresses issues of portfolio strategy, asset allocation and performance evaluation. The course is geared towards the understanding and implementation of 鈥渕odern portfolio theory,鈥� which is a general approach for maximizing the expected return of a portfolio given a certain amount of risk. This approach is the basis of virtually all quant investing strategies and is widely used by traditional portfolio managers. - Strategic Asset Allocation
Aiming to equip students with a solid understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects related to investment policy establishment, this course delves into factors such as return objectives, risk tolerance, investment horizon, tax considerations, and liquidity needs. The course starts by examining the standard mean-variance framework and the impact of capital market expectations on asset allocation. Subsequently, the framework is expanded to address non-standard preferences, alternative investments, and the effects of taxes and investment horizons. Behavioral models from current literature provide a foundation for investor risk assessment and profiling while readings from practitioner-oriented sources, demonstrate the real-world applicability of theoretical models. - Special Topic: FinTech
Disintermediation, Blockchains, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contracts鈥攚hat do all these terms mean and what is the momentous impact they have on finance and the economy? These questions are addressed in this cutting-edge course on the latest developments in fintech. - Special Topic: Machine Learning
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the application of machine learning techniques in finance and is designed to provide hands-on experience in using machine learning models for algorithmic trading. The course covers topics such as data preprocessing, feature engineering, supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the basic concepts and techniques of machine learning and their application in finance, design and implement machine learning models, and critically evaluate their performance. The course will be highly interactive, involving a combination of lectures and hands-on projects. - Special Topic: CSR & Impact Investing
This course offers an interdisciplinary view of sustainable finance, encompassing historical, political, scientific, and economic perspectives. It explores the potential contradictions between maximizing firm value and sustainability while examining the role of externalities. Key topics include the Coase Theorem, implicit and explicit contracts, and the influence of human behavior on corporate decision-making and sustainability. The course also investigates human capital mismanagement, income inequality, and climate change, delving into the challenges of finding solutions based on scientific knowledge and economic principles.
In the MSc Finance program, your cohort includes smart, critical thinkers from all over the world. Our class sizes are small and offer countless opportunities to work in teams and engage with your cohort. This experience will help you build relationships that could last throughout your entire career.
NATIONALITIES REPRESENTED IN THE MSC FINANCE
Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, USA and Vietnam.
MSc Finance Class of 2026
Class make-up
- 37 students
- Average age: 25
- 49% women
- Regions represented: 13
- Average years of work experience: 3
- Average GMAT (10th Edition): 640 (range: 550 鈥� 710)
- Average GMAT (Focus Edition): 575 (range: 515 鈥� 655)
- Average GRE: 324
Educational background
Industry
911吃瓜 Beedie's faculty comprises distinguished scholars and educators renowned for their contributions to business research and education.
"AI is transforming finance. While many traditional roles will disappear, a great number of new opportunities will arise for those prepared. Our MSc in Finance equips you with the skills to thrive in this new era."
Frederick Willeboordse, PhD
Academic Director
PhD (Tsukuba), MA (Amsterdam)
"The Principles of Investments course builds foundational knowledge in financial markets, risk-return analysis, portfolio construction, valuation, and ethical investing鈥攅quipping students with essential knowledge and skills to make informed investment decisions."
Ying Duan
Associate Professor, Finance
PhD (Boston College)
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