The Certified Financial Engineer  Programme involves self-study with the possibility to separately book additional seminars. The following key aspects are covered by the Certified Financial Engineer:

• Methodological foundations of financial engineering
• What is a derivative? What is the functioning of a derivatives exchange?
• Derivative instruments
  • Exchange listed derivatives
  • OTC derivatives
  • Exotic Derivatives

• Valuation and pricing
  • Black-Scholes model
  • Binomial model
  • Monte Carlo simulation etc.

• Derivatives strategies
  • Basic strategies, expansion strategies, strategies for every market environment
  • Position management of wealth management portfolios, institutional portfolios

• Trading strategies
  • Practical implementation
  • Assessment with regard to chances and risks

• Financial engineering products    
  • Legal structure of an issue etc.
  • Structure, valuation and implementation of products
  • Instruments used
  • Implementation, structuring, modeling and valuation of new products in financial engineering

• Risk controlling and margining
• Currency derivatives, commodity derivatives
• Structured derivatives
  • Swaps, Swaptions, FRA
  • Caps, Floors, Caplets
  • Credit derivatives, weather derivatives, insurance derivatives, real options

• Portfolio management using derivatives
• Implementation, structuring, modeling and valuation of new products in financial engineering
• Use of derivatives by hedge funds