AIFMRM is a postgraduate institute in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town. It was
launched in January 2014 and is wholly funded by corporate partners in the insurance and banking industry.
The institute conducts research and delivers postgraduate education and training in financial markets, risk
management and quantitative finance, aligned to the needs of the financial services sector.
AIFMRM:
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Promotes the diversity of the body of financial
and risk managers in Africa, and opens
the fields of quantitative finance and risk
management of financial markets to people from
a range of backgrounds, especially the historically
disadvantaged.
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Builds appropriate capacity in new talent, and
deepens the skills and capabilities of the currently
employed risk management workforce.
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Creates the next generation of African academics
dedicated to rigorous financial market and risk
management scholarship. Each generation will
enrich the production of graduates with qualifications
that are relevant and locally applicable.
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Drives research, discussion and enquiry in the
African financial industry, and provides new
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perspectives on the maintenance, monitoring
and resilience of the financial system.
Advances the theory and application of modern
quantitative, statistical and mathematical techniques
to the modelling and risk management of financial
products and markets.
Delivers specialised education programmes,
specifically tailored to meet the sector’s skills
shortages and to ensure that training is relevant,
intensive and effective.
Designs and delivers courses that provide a
qualitative and quantitative understanding of
risk management methodologies, governance
structures for the management of risk, and the
distinct regulatory principles governing banking
and insurance supervision.
The institute plans to launch a new Master’s degree in Risk Management of Financial Markets for enrolment
in the 2016 academic year.
Financial markets | Risk management | Quantitative finance
For more information, please contact the Director, Professor David Taylor
[email protected]
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