Certified Financial Engineer

Certified Financial Engineer is a title that is awarded by various institutes.

The Financial Engineering is an interdisciplinary field of study in which it comes to the combination of financial theory, technology, math and IT programming. Financial engineering is essentially about developing new financial solutions. These can be both credit solutions and investment solutions. Customized financial solutions and products are structured and provided using derivatives and combinations of derivatives.

Certified Financial Engineer (EIFD)

The title Certified Financial Engineer is awarded by the European Institute for Financial Engineering and Derivatives Research (EIFD) in cooperation with Deutsche Börse and Eurex . The EIFD is an independent affiliated institute of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment . The EIFD is responsible for the content. The test is accepted or carried out by Deutsche Börse AG on behalf of the EIFD. The EIFD has the authority to examine.

The Certified Financial Engineer exam can be taken at Deutsche Börse's domestic and foreign locations. The exam can be taken in German or English.

Exam content

The Certified Financial Engineer exam is currently divided into three parts:

Part 1: This is about basic exchange traded futures. On the product side, these are essentially options and futures. The focus is on strategies with exchange-traded futures transactions, risk controlling and the establishment and handling of futures transactions and their evaluation. If a participant has already passed a successfully completed examination to become a "certified exchange trader EUREX" at Deutsche Börse, this will be credited towards the first part of the examination.

Part 2: This is about complex futures. On the product side, it is essentially structured derivatives such as B. Credit derivatives, weather derivatives, insurance derivatives and real options.

Part 3: This is an independent work from the field of financial engineering. The aim is to scientifically develop a self-contained topic.

brand

The registered word and image trademark

An attempt by the EIFD to have the title “Certified Financial Engineer (CFE)” registered as a trademark in Germany was rejected due to its lack of distinctive character , while the registration as a word / figurative mark (illustration) was successful. An attempt to register as a European figurative mark has so far failed due to a contradiction due to the risk of confusion and an unfair competitive advantage.

literature

• Michael Bloss, Dietmar Ernst, Joachim Häcker, Daniel Sörensen: Financial Engineering: Certified Financial Engineer , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , 2014, 2nd edition ISBN 978-3110353037

Web links

• http://www.certifiedfinancialengineer.de
• http://www.eifd.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jünemanns Börse: Investment strategy - "Financial engineering strengthens substance" ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German investor television , December 2, 2010 
2. ↑ Certified Financial Engineer (CFE) Deutsche Börse
3. ↑ File number: 3020080201908 of the German Patent and Trademark Office, accessed on July 5, 2014.
4. ↑ Register number: 302008020191 at the German Patent and Trademark Office, accessed on July 5, 2014.
5. ↑ Community trademark No. 009569765 at the German Patent and Trademark Office, accessed on July 5, 2014.