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Investment and Wealth Management at University of Essex - UCAS

Course options

2024 - 20252025 - 2026
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Open days

21Jun
University of Essex Open Day - Colchester Campus
Undergraduate
20Sep
University of Essex Open Day - Colchester Campus
Undergraduate
11Oct
University of Essex Open Day - Southend Campus
Undergraduate

Course summary

Investment and Wealth Management are two sides of the same coin for portfolio managers who need to diversify and manage their exposure to risk to accurately value their assets. You will explore how psychological factors affect the financial behaviours of investors and finance practitioners on this specialist Masters degree. Our professionally recognised MSc Investment and Wealth Management builds on your existing knowledge of finance, economics or business to prepare you for a challenging and rewarding career in portfolio management and corporate finance. You’ll explore how corporations deal with funding sources, capital structuring and investment decisions. You’ll investigate behavioural finance, financial planning strategies and fixed income markets and instruments. You develop knowledge and skills in:

  • portfolio theory
  • fixed-income securities
  • behavioural finance
  • corporate finance
Our aim is to give you the best foundation for a career in investment or elsewhere in the finance sector. We want to help you understand the theory and put it into practice. You’ll learn to use our Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab, which gives you access to the data and analytical tools found in financial institutions across the City of London and throughout the world. This will allow you to develop the skills needed in industry and gain an advantage in the graduate recruitment market. The University of Essex is a member of the CFA® Institute University Affiliation Program and our MSc Investment and Wealth Management covers more than 70% of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program Candidate Body of Knowledge. Upon completing this course, you are well positioned to sit for the CFA exams, which are among the most widely recognised and established qualifications in the UK. This course is taught at Essex Business School. Our students and staff join us from all over the world and our teaching is grounded in contemporary issues and professional practice Essex has one of the largest groups of finance academics in the UK, providing a wide range of courses in banking, finance, investment, risk management and financial econometrics. This means you’ll also be able to choose from a huge range of optional modules to tailor your course to your interests and aspirations.

Modules

You can tailor your learning experience with a choice of optional modules. More information about these can be found on the University of Essex website

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for this course can be found on the University of Essex website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £15000 Year 1
Northern Ireland £15000 Year 1
Scotland £15000 Year 1
Wales £15000 Year 1
Channel Islands £15000 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £15000 Year 1
EU £23500 Year 1
International £23500 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Fees displayed are for 2025-26 entry. Fees for part-time courses are calculated pro-rata to the relevant full-time fee. Tuition fees may be subject to annual increases in each year of study in line with inflation.
Investment and Wealth Management at University of Essex - UCAS