Master in Banking and Finance / University of St.Gallen
Based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the Master’s Programme in Banking and Finance (MBF) is one of th
19/05/2023
Today we want to share with you a summary of employment statistics of our 2023 Spring MBF Graduates. 🧑🎓
We are very proud to say that the labour market puts a premium on MBF degrees. We are happy to see that our students are successfully developing their careers in the fields that interest them and that they have a chance to work with market leaders. 🧑💼
We once again warmly congratulate this year’s graduating students on their completion of the MBF and their successful start in the professional world, and we wish them all the best for their future. ✨
of Finance (SOF-HSG) Universität St.Gallen
02/05/2023
The last two weekends students completed their Research Seminar course! ✨
The MBF Research Seminar is usually taking place in the second semester and is encouraging students to take their first attempts at writing their own research paper. The subject of the seminar contribution should be on an issue of current academic interest and may be related to the Master's thesis, i.e., students may research a specific aspect of their Master's thesis in greater depth.📖
To foster the exchange of ideas, seminars are concluded by a joint research retreat abroad, which this year took place in Dornbirn. Besides presenting their findings and discussing the researched ideas students also took place in a team-building activity - Outdoor Escape Room. 🤝
Many thanks to our Professors for offering interesting topics to our students and for giving them valuable insights along the way! 🙌
17/04/2023
Besides Europe, our students also had a chance to discover Asia, during their “Asia Compact: Private Equity” course in Singapore!
The course offers a unique opportunity to get exposure not only towards the Private Equity industry in general but in particular with regard to Southeast Asia and its Emerging Markets. Students covered such subjects as investment process, structure and deal dynamics of buyouts, key market trends in Southeast Asia and the investors' perspectives on PE funds. This Asia Compact course took place at the St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia (SGI-HSG), the local institute of the University of St.Gallen in Singapore.
Special thanks go to Prof. Dr. Stefan Morkoetter for teaching the course and sharing his knowledge with our students
17/04/2023
Our students visited London and Frankfurt during the semester break for block seminars.
Students have discussed various quantitative financial modelling case studies and coded their solutions during the course “Quantitative Portfolio Management” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Combined with various student presentations, this course has provided an overview of advanced, state‑of‑the‑art approaches in Quantitative Portfolio Management.
Big thank you to Michael V. for sharing his knowledge with our students!
17/04/2023
Last week participants of the London Insurance Market course visited Aon headquarters and Lloyd's Insurance and Reinsurance Marketplace as part of their studies. The course, offered as part of the MBF curriculum, enables a better understanding of the unique features of insurance processes and practices specific to the London Insurance Market which is one of the leading insurance and reinsurance markets in the world.
Special thanks go to Alexander Alabaster, Joel Pergande, and Adrian Champion for sharing their experiences with our students and Assistant Professor Dr. Despoina Makariou for leading the course!
04/04/2023
Just recently 57 MBF Graduates successfully obtained their M.A. degree at HSG in Banking and Finance! We congratulate all of them and wish them all the best for their future careers! We hope to see you in the future in our Alumni circles! 🧑🎓
Some further congratulations are also in order to Jannis Andrea Braun was awarded the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Prize Award for the best overall Master's Degree result with a 5,79 GPA, and to Rakeesh Karunakaran who was awarded the Zürcher Kantonalbank Prize for the Best Master‘s thesis, which was on "Machine Learning Applications to Predict Mortgage Default”! Congratulations on these two outstanding achievements! 🏆
Last but not least, we want to thank Leonardo Winzap for sharing his reflections about his time at the MBF through his personal graduate speech. 📖
Once again we congratulate our incredible Graduates and remember that your MBF journey has just begun! 🙌
Just before the break, our students participated in an MBF get-together, and this time they went bowling to Säntispark! 🎳
It was a truly fun evening and a great opportunity to relax and meet before spring break. Thank you everyone for coming and we wish you a great break! 🙌
Another thing that makes the MBF programme so unique, is the community that it builds. Each year we see extremely motivated and ambitious people that inspire each other and build connections and friendships for life. 🤝
We are extremely proud to see students like Zachary Matteucci (class 2022), who even after graduation want to come back as our alumni to share their knowledge with the next generation of the MBF. 🧑🎓
If you want to learn what motivates him to be an active alumnus of the MBF programme – watch the video below! 🙌
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03/03/2023
We are taking advantage of the Swiss winter! ❄️
The MBF team organized a guided winter snowshoe hike accompanied by a delicious Swiss cheese fondue. We hope our students enjoyed the well-deserved study break as much as we did. Many thanks to our great guides Natalie and Peter and we hope to repeat this activity next year!🙌
18/02/2023
The Practitioner Seminar has just come to an end!
The Practitioner Seminar is a long-standing MBF tradition. During this seminar, students worked in small teams on a real work project, provided and supported by Credit Suisse, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), UBS, Zürcher Kantonalbank and Fidelity International. The seminar culminated in a final presentation to the company representatives at the SQUARE (HSG).
We congratulate students on their impressive research and presentations, and we are sure they benefited greatly from the seminar.
We also wanted to thank our corporate partners for supporting students during their projects and additionally thank Raoul Casellini, Paolo Muzzarelli, Phil Gschwend, CAIA, Silvio Sulser and Cyril Scherzinger-Gehrer, CAIA for their participation in the final presentations.
In the MBF we encourage our students to be open-minded and learn about finance from new perspectives. Through different courses, they gain unique skills and broaden their horizons, which in the end allows them to find their path in the finance industry.
A great example of how this proves successful is the story of Richard Papp, co-founder of FLIT Invest and our MBF alumni (class 2017).
Do you want to know how our Master’s programme helped him to find his path? Do you want to discover what makes MBF special and what should our students keep in mind? Then watch the video below!
19/01/2023
Our MBF Ambassador programme is a perfect opportunity for our students to contribute to our MBF community's growth. 🤝
We are pleased to introduce to you our 2023 Ambassadors! This semester they will be sharing with their network all our potential students need to know about the programme. 🧑🏫
Helga Molnar, Federica Tilocca, Alessandro Fornaroli, Fabio Ramsperger, Felix Böltz, Nico Gmuender, Yiwen Jin, Julien Sheppard - fingers crossed for drawing new talent to our Master's programme! ⭐️
08/11/2022
Just last week our students had a chance to participate in a Commodities course in London! 🇬🇧
The course focuses on commodity finance and economics and is taught by Zeno Adams, an academic, and Bernd Brommundt, a practitioner at bp in London. Students are therefore offered a balanced mix of the theoretically and practically relevant aspects of commodity markets. 🛢
During the first sessions at the University of St.Gallen students learnt more about hedging and speculation, commodity pricing, and the impact of commodity index speculation on food and energy prices. In London on the other hand they shifted towards practically relevant topics such as the structure of a crude oil options book, physical commodity trading, and the structuring of commodity contracts. 📊
24/10/2022
During HSG Banking Days, together with the MBF Women Club, we had the pleasure to host the event “MBF Alumna Share their Stories”, where we were joined by four MBF Women Alumna.👩🎓
Our female guests at the event – all connected to the Master in Banking and Finance programme – shared personal stories of how the MBF has influenced their careers. . We looked at successful careers in every stage beyond degrees and titles to understand how manifold careers can develop after one and the same master’s degree. 🤝
A special thanks to our MBF Alumna; Jana Messmer, Valérie Grossrieder, Viola Rutar, Claudia Tunno and all the students who joined. 🙌
19/10/2022
As promised we come back to you with more information on our Autumn’22 Graduation! 🧑🎓
Just recently 40 MBF Graduates successfully obtained their M.A. degree at HSG in Banking and Finance. We congratulate all of them on this milestone and wish them all the best for their future careers! Thank you for the trust you put in us, and we hope to see you in the future in our Alumni circles! 🙌
Some further congratulations are also in order. Patrick Ackermann was awarded the Credit Suisse Prize for the best overall Master's Degree result and Nadia Balemi was awarded the Fidelity International Prize for the Best Master‘s thesis entitled! Congratulations on these two outstanding achievements! 🌟
Once again we congratulate our incredible Graduates and remember that your MBF journey has just begun! 🏆
The very first glimpse into our Autumn'22 Graduation Ceremony...🧑🎓
It was a heartwarming conclusion to a memorable time that our Autumn'22 Graduates had during their MBF adventure. We congratulate you all and we know you will now start a path full of successes! 🌟
The below video will give a first impression of the Ceremony we held! Enjoy and stay tuned for more information coming soon! 🤗
10/10/2022
Last week, with Boston Consulting Group, MBF Women Club hosted a Skills Workshop and Apéro at the University! 🏫
Our students had a chance to improve their negotiation and group work skills and an opportunity to network with the Boston Consulting Group consultants. 🤝
Thank you to all the ladies from MBF Women Club that joined and organised the event, and special thanks go Leonora Cottiati, Anna Bailach Adsuara, Daniel Mahrle, Sarah Keuser and Jonas Hetterich, who lead the workshop. 🧑💼
We are looking forward to more events like that! 🙌
07/10/2022
Career Power Days have recently come to an end! 🙌
SIM and MBF students once again reunited for a 1.5-day event, offering students the opportunity to practice leadership and teamwork, by simulating a real-life corporate case study with challenging tasks! 📊
We thoroughly enjoyed listening to all of the interesting case presentations and speaking with the participants from the Master of Arts in SIM (M.A. HSG), University of St.Gallen and the Master in Banking and Finance (MBF) at the University of St.Gallen! 📝
Congratulation to all the students and we hope it was a valuable experience for you!
Thank you to the Career & Corporate Service of the University of St.Gallen (CSC-HSG), in particular Gerd Winandi-Martin, Carpe Viam GmbH, especially Dr. Anja Henke and our workshop trainer Catherine Tenger for supporting us during this event!🧑💼
29/09/2022
Just two days ago our students took part in a long standing MBF tradition - Running Dinner. MBF students prepared meals for each other and through a fun activity got a chance to know each other better! 🍲
27/09/2022
As part of this year's MBF-CSC Career Workshop Series, the MBF Team and the Career & Corporate Service of the University of St.Gallen (CSC-HSG) organised two career workshops exclusively designed for MBF students.
The first workshop was held with McKinsey & Company and aimed to provide tips on how to tackle a Consulting Case. We would like to thank Annette Kick, Christina Jackisch, Thomas Dörig and Carolyn Höchle for sharing many useful insights!
The second workshop, organised with UBS, gave the students interesting insights into Investment Banking interview training. Many thanks to Lucien Matthieu, Rahel Peter, Alessandro Caramanica, Dominik Iseli and Jean-Michel Roten for joining this event!
23/09/2022
During the first week of the semester, the MBF Boat Cruise took place for the new 2022 intake. The students enjoyed a tour of Lake Konstanz, the award ceremony for the MBF Fellowship and MBF-HSG Alumni Fellowship holders, as well as a delicious meal on board. What a way to start a semester!
22/09/2022
We would like to congratulate our MBF Fellowship holders for their excellent academic performance and professional achievements: Céline Bilgischer, Lena Bodenmann, Lukas Böttcher, Leonard Bremkamp, Edwin Diewold, Felix Hofmann, Laura Lupi, Lukas Marscheck, Alina Schmidt, Marvin Strunk! 🏆
Last week during a fine dinner at the Walhalla St. Gallen, the Fellowship holders had the chance to get to know our Corporate Partners and exchange ideas. Many thanks to Brankic a Milosavljevic (Credit Suisse), Andrea Müller (Credit Suisse), Eike Dreusike (BCG), Til Buender (BCG), Jürg Rimle (Fidelity), Moritz Burckhardt (UBS), Claudia Brunner-Kemke (UBS), Sabrina Bächler (UBS), Martin Knechtle (ZKB), Dr. Roger Rüegg (ZKB) for attending the dinner and sharing interesting insights with our students.
We are extremely thankful for our ongoing partnerships and we are excited for upcoming projects together! 🙌
20/09/2022
Going back to the integration days with our new MBF intake...😏
They did not only have a chance to take part in the event organized by Credit Suisse in Zurich, where they learnt more about building their carrier path in the banking industry but also take part in the workshop conducted by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kernbach “Design your future”. 📚
We want to thank both Credit Suisse and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kernbach for their contribution to the integration days!
Congratulation to the new students for their work on the integration days’ case studies and we hope that the first week of the semester is going well for all of you! 🥳
19/09/2022
It is officially the start of an Autumn semester! 🍁
We are very excited about our curriculum and the events that we already have planned for our students.
A warm welcome goes to our new MBF intake, we hope your first semester of the programme will be a great experience! 🏆
We wish you all a successful semester! 🥳
29/08/2022
We are not slowing down the tempo and we come to you with another great success of HSG and MBF students! ✨
MBF student Kilian Gerding and Rasmus Schraut made first place in this year’s Southeastern Hedge Fund Competition and received a scholarship award of US$ 10,000! 🏆
Kilian and Rasmus proposed a trading strategy that systematically harvests volatility risk premia in commodity markets. Both convinced a jury of U.S. hedge fund professionals with their innovative approach, high risk-adjusted performance, and their sound risk mitigation. With their strategy, they surpassed other teams from Yale School of Management, Duke University, and the University of Texas. 🎓
27/08/2022
Weiqi (Loraine) Liu, an MBF student, received this year’s STARR fellowship. 🎓
Starr International Foundation Scholarship Fund is aimed at highly talented, foreign-language students with a recognized, foreign Bachelor's degree who are pursuing a Master's degree in the English-language programmes. ✨
The grant in the amount of CHF 20 000 is awarded each year to students with outstanding academic performance. Our warmest congratulations go to Weiqi and we wish her further success! 🏆
23/08/2022
In this year’s Financial Times Master in Finance pre-experience ranking the MBF was ranked in 14th place, just after the Bocconi University’s programme!
Even though this time we didn't hold to our long-standing 6th place, we congratulate all the Universities on their work and we hope that their devotion to education was appropriately rewarded 🎓
We continue to work hard to reflect our economic fundamentals: well-educated graduates receiving top job placements, earning attractive salaries in the financial industry, and enjoying an excellent reputation among employers and colleagues. We hope to see the results of that in the 2023 Financial Times Ranking! 📚
21/08/2022
MBF students among the top in prestigious M&A competition! 🏆
Patrick Aoun, Karol Ciesluk, Henrik Larsen and Michael Sakowski (the “Excel-erators”) achieve 2nd place out of over 150 teams in this year’s Harvard case competition! Congratulations! 🥈
The Global Case Competition at Harvard (GCCH) is the most renowned and largest global M&A case competition.
In this year’s edition, teams took the role of buy-side advisors for Japanese video game producer Bandai Namco on whether they should acquire Games Workshop, the leading British hobby miniatures and tabletop battle games player. The “Excel-erators” from HSG recommended that the producer goes forward with the acquisition, arguing with a strong strategic fit, attractive standalone valuation and potential for synergy realization. 📊
They attribute their success in the Harvard case competition to the rigorous curriculum of the MBF programme, as well as their practical learnings from internships in consulting, private equity and investment banking.
We congratulate you and wish you the best of luck with your future plans! 👏
19/08/2022
With the Autumn semester starting soon we look back at some of our students' achievements. 🏆
An example of such is the fact that an MBF student team was chosen as one of 16 out of 77 best teams who made it to the final round of the 2022 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge! 🌳
We are very proud that our students are influencing the world of Sustainable Finance. Congratulations to Samuele Tamanza, Severin Koch, David Matern and Elias Hegner on your work on "Black Soldier Flies Convertible Minibonds"! 🪰
We would also like to thank Dr. Martin Nerlinger for supporting the team during their journey.
You can learn more about the students' idea here: https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/kellogg-morgan-stanley-sustainable-investing-challenge-2022-finalists
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