Finance is the linchpin of taught-skills necessary for both navigating enterprises successfully, and ensuring stable economic activity nationally and globally. It is composed of several important facets and thus requires its practitioners to acquire a dedicated, focused and comprehensive set of training, in order to be appropriately qualified. The Master of Management in the field of Finance & Investment Management at Wits Business School (WBS) is designed to fill this training need.

In fact, a specialization in graduate Finance is a hallmark of most renowned Business Schools globally. The reasons for this phenomenon are: (1) Finance is an indispensable unifying knowledge-area for success in both enterprise and the macro-economy. (2) Finance experts require a program-based training to garner the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge for its effective understanding and application.

Importantly, the WBS Master of Management in the field of Finance & Investment programme  design is motivated by the special need for Finance in the emerging market context. Gone are the days when Finance was most relevant in the developed market context, due to the fact that financial innovations emanated from this environment, with international finance transactions being essentially an “intra-developed markets” affair. With globalization, emerging markets have become inexorably connected to the dynamism of financial markets and their breathtakingly paced innovations. The contagion of the sub-prime mortgage market (developed markets) originated a global financial crisis which makes the case for why emerging markets must acquire the requisite capacity needed to understand the workings of financial markets, how to leverage their opportunities, and how to anticipate and mitigate their systemic threats.