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Only nine planets were known before 1992, the ones orbiting our star, the Sun, which then included Pluto. Twenty-five years later, we have...

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In this module student will undertake a challenging extended open-ended project in a small group. The technical skills exercised in the collective...

Clinical placements form an essential and integral part of the degree programme by allowing students to develop and apply theoretical knowledge learnt in lectures and from their own further reading. These placements encourage students to apply their academic knowledge to clinical Orthoptics and general ophthalmology. Students will rotate to different accredited clinical placements sites over the 2-year programme to ensure a good balance and breadth of clinical experience is achieved. Within the clinical placement an opportunity to visit other sub-specialty areas directly relevant to the course will be included i.e. theatre, stroke wards, screening, imaging departments.

This module will enable students to consolidate clinical skills from theoretical knowledge gained from the entire first year of the programme.

The objective of Hedge Fund Strategies (HFS) is to expose students to the world of hedge funds by focusing on some of the most commonly used strategies...

The objective of Hedge Fund Strategies (HFS) is to expose students to the world of hedge funds by focusing on some of the most commonly used strategies employed in the industry.
It lays the groundwork for the understanding of some strategies by going over the fundamentals of fixed income and options. The module covers different hedge fund strategies, like long/short equity, dedicated short bias, merger arbitrage, fixed income arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, and global macro by going over the specifics and drivers of each strategy, the underlying bet, and the historical performance of each strategy.
Beyond the lectures, the class is divided into groups that form individual funds that are tasked with managing a portfolio of paper money in real-time using some of the concepts developed in class. Every class will include a discussion of market conditions as well as how funds are performing. This discussion mimics morning meetings are real hedge funds. In so doing, the module helps students replicate the decisions made by some hedge fund managers in real-time, introducing the element of investment decisions in uncertainty to the module’s curriculum, and navigating risk.