MASTER IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT & ISLAMIC FINANCE “Islamic Finance: the biggest worldwide area of financial growth”
ESCUELA DE FINANZAS CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR SECURITIES & INVESTMENT
CAMPUS DE EXCELENCIA
Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance
ESCUELA DE FINANZAS GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
CAMPUS DE EXCELENCIA
ESCUELA DE FINANZAS has successfully developed an educative project during more than one decade. More than 600 professionals of the banking and business sector from Spain and Latin America have studied in our school. Within this time, the quality of our teaching lead the school to reach important goals, such as being considered the best finance school in the ranking of the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) (Ministry of Science and Research) during two consecutive years. Some the school´s most significant achievements are: 2005 and 2006. As an initiative of the multinational ENCE, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS spreads the Spanish process of financial release to several economic and financial institutions from Uruguay. 2007. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is created in Uruguay. 2007. Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza and Bolsa de España (Spanish Stock Exchange) become its educational partners. 2007. The academic headquarters of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS are settled in the Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation. 2008. As an initiative of the Government of the Autonomic Region of Galicia, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS teaches business to Uruguayan executives which belong to the Galician community in Uruguay. 2008. University of Reykjavitz (Iceland) decides that its international business students must course educational stages in ESCUELA DE FINANZAS. 2009. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BERD) and Instituto de Formación de la Bolsa Española (Spanish Stock Exchange Institute) select the school as a specialist to train technicians from the Zagreb Stock Exchange (Croatia). ESCUELA DE FINANZAS develops this task during 2009 and 2010. 2010. In collaboration with Bolsa de Madrid, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS starts to develop financial training for professionals of the stock market. Investors from London, New York, Paris, Rome, Los Angeles , or
Mexico daily receive and read the financial bulletin generated by ESCUELA DE FINANZAS, downloading more than half a million financial information documents. 2010. The first Annual MAB Meeting takes place, all these companies quote in the Alternative Equity Market. 2010. In the CSIC ranking for business schools, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS was the best positioned. 2011. The Campus of Excellence is opened in Oleiros, A Coruña. 2011. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS starts offering postgraduate degrees in High Financial Management in Colombia, which are coursed by more than sixty students and a semi-attendance based Master in Finance is inaugurated in Montevideo. 2011. A regional representation office is opened in Bogota. 2012. Almost two hundred professionals from Colombia and Uruguay take postgraduate degrees in ESCUELA DE FINANZAS in Bogota and Montevideo and more than five hundred businesspeople attend conferences and scientific conventions. 2012. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS opens the Centro de Estudios Superiores en Administración y Finanzas, centre which is approved by the Ministry of Education. 2012. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS creates a proper language division: LANGUAGE SCHOOL, being aware of the importance of the knowledge of different languages to obtain professional growth. It prepares students to 2
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successfully complete the language certifications provided by the University of Cambridge. During the course 2012 approximately fifty professionals, economists and engineers, are enrolled in these linguistic immersion programmes. 2013. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS becomes an Accredited Trainer Provider of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI). CISI is the main association of financial professionals of the United Kingdom. It is recognized by the Financial Services Authority to accredit the necessary processes for being a professional in the sector. The most demanding financial markets recognized the FSA accreditations, which means, having
CISI certifications will enable professionals to develop their career in the main financial markets. 2013. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS teaches the International Certificate in Wealth Management (ICWM) and the Risk in Financial Service certification (RFS) in all of its offices. 2013. In collaboration with CISI, three Masters are created to provide the highest grade of financial certification in the City of London and in every market that works or recognizes British certificates. The Master programme is the only one in Spain, Colombia and Uruguay that authorizes an international level in finance.
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ESCUELA DE Higher Studies in Finance & Administration
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Master in Risk & Finance
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Master in Wealth Management
Master in Human Resources Management
Higher Technician in Finance & Administration
Financial Advisor Diploma
Master in Wealth Management
Risk in Financial Services
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Programme in Financial Management
Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance
Learning Wealth Management & Islamic Finance in Europe.
Students from Five Pillars, who have previously coursed the IFQ, will not have to examinate themselves from this part of the Master, for which enrolment fees will be lower. Those students who succesfully pass the whole programme will obtain the following accreditations:
ESCUELA DE FINANZAS and Five Pillars are Accre-
dited Training Providers of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) from the United Kingdom. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is ATP for Spain and
• Spanish Language Certificates.
Latin America and Five Pillars for Singapore. ESCUELA DE FINANZAS offers students from Five Pillars the possibility of obtaining the maximum financial accreditation level in wealth management as well as studying the Spanish language, by coursing the Master in Wealth Management and one of our business or financial Spanish inmersion programmes.
• Master in Wealth Management, by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. • Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance, by ESCUELA DE FINANZAS.
Programme Structure Inmersion Pogramme (August) A four week inmersion programme, designed for students with bare knowledge of the Spanish language. By the end of the course students will have aquired a low-middle level of the Spanish language.
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Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance Wealth Management Part (October-May)
Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance IFQ Part (May-June)
The programme will be impelled in Spanish, but all the academic material will be in English, as well as the test type exams. Tutors are bilingual, and will personally asses students.
Validated for Five Pillar Student with IFQ.
Master Master in in Wealth Wealth Management Management & & Islamic Islamic Finance Finance
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MASTER IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT & ISLAMIC FINANCE
The only Master in Islamic Finance accomplished in Spain Worldwide Accreditation.
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Escuela de Finanzas Accredited Trainer Provider of Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
professionals in the financial markets determined by the British legislation RDR).The important number of countries to which the Anglo-Saxon influence is extended to, is the main reason for which the CISI international certifications are accredited worldwide. It is essential to possess a CISI certification in order to develop a professional career in the international financial area. Amid the more than 90 countries in which CISI is present in, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is the only Accredited Training Provider for CISI in different Latin-American countries and the only provider in the Spanish market for the Master in Wealth Management (maximum level accreditation), Risk in Financial Services Certificate and the Islamic Finance Qualification.
The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is a professional body evolved from executives of the London Stock Exchange, which issues several international certifications which accredit the professionals´ knowledge in the financial sector (wealth management, investments, financial risks, finance…) It is composed by 45.000 professional members from more than 89 countries (Switzerland, Luxemburg, Ireland, India, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Canada, USA…). These different certifications include the knowledge required by the FSA (Financial Services Authority, the Regulator Authority of the United Kingdom) to
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“Islamic Finance: the biggest area of growth in the financial area� In the current international context, Islamic finances are growing at a significant level, becoming one of the most dynamic sectors, even competing with the conventional financial industry, which is currently deteriorated due to the contemporary economic crisis. The explanation to this growth is quite simple: the existence of growing fortunes of the Middle East, as well as the financial needs of the Muslim community in their emigration to other non-Islamic countries, which are unable to find an appropriate financial advisor to manage their heritage and financial investments.
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The Master in Wealth Management and Islamic Finance enables professionals to acquire the specific knowledge, regulation rules and concepts that characterize this financial community. The completion of the Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance involves obtaining the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) issued by CISI. This certification proves the technical required knowledge, which is based on the Sharia financial and Islamic banking foundations, has been obtained. Today, there are few professionals which have this expertise, and therefore, it becomes a new professional area with real prospects of professional development in the international area.
The Master in Wealth Management & Islamic Finance of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS has been designed in three main blocks:
• Master in Wealth Management. • Islamic Financial Qualification. • Skill Management.
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Islamic Financial Qualificaction. This qualification provides an understanding of the Muslim financial management, as a result of applying the technical principles of the Sharia law (legislation principles that govern the Muslim religion); and enables to hold key positions in the takaful (Islamic insurance) industries. It is a CISI certificate which recognizes the basic knowledge of the Sharia principles in the financial industry. This accreditation was initially created by the Central Bank of Lebanon and the ESA (School of Business in the Middle East, managed by the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and associated with the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris affaires-École Européenne des (ESCP-EAP)). This accreditation is regulated as a level 4 qualification in the European Qualification Framework, equivalent to level 3 in the UK.
Master in Wealth Management. The Master in Wealth Management of CISI is directed to wealth managers, IFAs, private client managers, discretionary portfolio managers and private bankers. The Master in Wealth Management of CISI is recognized as a level 7 qualification in the European Qualification Framework (EFQ)*. *The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is an overarching qualifications reference framework that links the qualifications of different countries together. It acts as device to make qualifications easier to understand across different countries and systems in Europe. The qualification levels go from 1 to 8. Level 8 is the maximum level which can be acquired.
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Skill Management. This module is specifically designed by ESCUELA DE FINANZAS for the Master in Wealth Management and Islamic Finance. The aim of this module is to enable our students to be professional leaders in the financial area. A bicycle needs two pumped wheels in order to advance properly. A professional who wishes to reach success must have acquired the corresponding knowledge and posses the appropriate directive skills in order to obtain a successful professional career. If the professional only dominates one of these fields, he/she will end up with one of his/her wheels half pumped, for which the professional will be able to advance in the sector, but not to reach the peak of success during his/her professional career.
“This qualification supports the professional development of our staff helping them to provide the service that gains them trusted adviser status within our clients´ financial affairs”, Keith Edwards, Director, Church House Private Bankers.
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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE OF THE MASTER IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT & ISLAMIC FINANCE
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METHODOLOGY & PROFESSIONAL TEACHING • PROFESSIONAL TEACHING. The diffe-
rent modules are taught by professionals with an important professional career in the national and international markets, in different financial areas. Each of these profiles has been approved by the CISI institute in order to provide the different academic modules. Lessons provided by ESCUELA DE FINANZAS are carefully orientated to combine the explanation of each module with its practical application, which the student will have to apply during his professional career. Case studies will be analyzed in the classroom, to enable students to identify all the available alternatives or instruments and how these may be used in the professional field.
• NETWORKING. One of the added-values which ESCUELA DE FINANZAS offers students is that docents will be able to transmit the knowledge they have gained throughout their own professional experience in the financial and business environment. Furthermore students will have acquired the necessary technical knowledge related to this field.
• SKILL DEVELOPMENT. The worldwide
recognition of the corresponding professional knowledge is not the only factor which will differentiate students of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS. Throughout their professional career, it is very important for them to be able to develop their competences and skills, in order to be able to 16
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identify appropriate solutions among different situations. In ESCUELA DE FINANZAS the student will be tutored in the skill management area, and will be familiar with the typical daily real life situations that a manager might have to face and deal with.
• METHODOLGY. Lessons will take place in Spanish.
The academic material and the CISI official exam will be in English.
• BILINGUAL TRAINING. For this reason it is necessary to test the English level, of those students willing to course this educational programme. Once the Master has been completed, ESCUELA DE FINANZAS recommends students to continue with English language immersion programmes in order to complete their professional profile.
Duration
9 months from October to June
Timetable
Friday afternoons and Saturdays mornings
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ADVICE FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT The main aim of the Advice for Professional Careers Department of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is for students to reach the highest professional recognition. The best success of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is that students are recognized within the specialty that they course in our school. This Department makes a constant effort and works very close to the Human Resources Management Department of different banks, financial companies, and national businesses. We try to understand the competences and attitudes that are demanded in the profile that they are looking for. The Advice for Professional Careers Department personally evaluates each of our students in order to identify what attitudes, competences and skills they must improve and which specific profiles employers will demand from them. Nowadays ESCUELA DE FINANZAS is linked with more than 40 entities which headquarters are settled in Barcelona, Galicia, Frankfurt, London, and Madrid. “ ESCUELA DE FINANZAS helps you build and develop your personal and professional career, our employment department has always been a leader in the sector, and the goal is to remain in the same way� . Venancio Salcines, President of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS. 18
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The Path to Personal and Profe
HIGHLY QUALIFIED INSTRUCTORS TRANSMISSION OF FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE
CONNECTION WITH THE FINANCIAL WORLD DETECTION OF THE HR PROFILES DEMANDED BY COMPANIES
APPROPRIATE SELECTION OF STUDENTS
PER AB PRO
PERMANENT CONTACT OF THE PROFESSIONAL CAR WITH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COM
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essional Development
S U C C E S S
APPROPRIATE FACILITIES CAMPUS OF EXCELENCE
RSONAL TUTOR: GUIDANCE, SKILLS & BILITIES; TRAINING, PERSONAL AND OFESSIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT
REER DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS
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CAMPUS OF EXCELLENCE (A CORUÑA) The Campus of Excellence is the main headquarters of ESCUELA DE FINANZAS, which is based in Spain. It is located in Salvador de Madariaga Avenue, 50, in Oleiros, a council adjacent to the city of A Coruña (9 km from the city centre, 7 minutes away by car). Campus of Excellence is a space of 10,000 square meters of gardens and leisure facilities. It offers an ideal space for learning and having a unique experience. It has sports facilities (tennis courts and swimming pool), as well as several classrooms (with laptops, WIFI and projectors), library (with more than 5,000 books, available for use for the more than hundred students that study at the centre every year), and also study and conference rooms. The school also has a canteen with dining options for students. It´s privileged location enables the Campus to be perfectly communicated with the city centre and is only 2 km away from the airport.
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PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO HELP YOU PLAN YOUR STAY In order to make your stay as easy as possible, a personal assistant from ESCUELA DE FINANZAS will provide the necessary information of the different available accommodation options, to those students interested in coursing the Master programme: • Travelling to Coruña from other cities or countries. • Accommodation in student apartments or residences. • Booking dining facilities in the Campus of Excellence. • Others.
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