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Our vision is to be recognized as a major finance department in the Asia-Australasia region in both research and teaching. We are one of the largest divisions within the Nanyang Business School with a full-time faculty of 31 (including 4 senior fellows and lecturers). Because the division also offers degrees in actuarial science and financial engineering, our faculty members are diverse. We have 22 faculty members with qualifications in Finance and Financial Economics, and another 9 in Actuarial Science, Insurance and Statistics.

Based on a recent survey of 170 finance departments in the Asia-Pacific region, we are ranked third in terms of number of publications in 21 finance journals during the period 2000 to 2004. Our faculty members hail from more than 10 different countries including China, India, U.S. and Germany. The Division sponsors regular faculty seminars and quality research is strongly supported. We subscribe to a comprehensive range of financial databases and information services. Our faculty members are active in a variety of research issues of corporate finance, investments, financial engineering and risk management, market microstructure, Asian financial markets, and others.

The Division offers the following programmes: