西南财经大学是教育部直属的国家重点大学,也是国家“211工程”重点建设大学。证券与期货学院作为中国全日制高等教育唯一培养证券、期货人才的专业性学院,成立于2008年9月28日。前中国证监会主席周正庆教授担任学院名誉院长。学院实施校企合作共建的办学模式,设有学院理事会。
金融是现代经济的核心,主导着现代经济的发展。西南财经大学金融学科具有悠久的办学历史和辉煌的办学业绩,为证券与期货学院的发展提供了坚实的学科支撑。构建以国家重点学科金融学为核心,以银行、保险、证券期货三大领域为主体,多学科交叉、渗透和支撑的“大金融优势学科群”,决定了证券与期货学院的成立是学校学科建设和发展战略布局的重要举措。
在学校的领导下,在理事单位的合作共建下,学院秉承“经世济民、孜孜以求”的西财精神,遵循“开放包容、竞争创新”的院训,坚持面向国际、面向市场、面向未来的办学理念,坚持开放办学、追求创新、突出特色的建院方针,主要面向证券、期货监管部门,交易所,证券、基金、期货公司以及公司证券事务,开展有针对性的特色人才培养;围绕学科前沿和国家重点需求开展证券期、货领域重大理论和实践问题的研究,努力为中国证券与期货业发展服务,努力把学院建设成为证券与期货业高素质人才培养、高水平科学研究、高品质社会服务的一个重要基地,为学校创建特色鲜明的高水平大学做出重要贡献。
学院下拟设一系三所两中心:即证券与期货系;宏观经济与市场趋势研究所、行业与资产配置研究所、衍生品与资产定价研究所;资本市场模拟与测试中心、行为金融研究中心。现有教师18人,其中:博士生导师4人,教授(含兼职教授)13人,副教授6人。教师队伍中,既有专注于证券市场理论研究的专家,如:冯用富教授;也有长期从事证券与期货行业管理的知名人士,如:前中国证监会主席周正庆教授、前中国证监会副主席屠光绍教授、现中国证监会主席助理姜洋教授等;还有证券与期货业界的知名专家,如:国信证券股份有限公司总裁胡继之教授、中国银河证券股份有限公司副总裁李梅教授等。
School of Securities and Futures—About Us
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) is one of the premier universities specialized in finance and economics in China. It is directly subordinate to the Ministry of Education of China and is also ranked as one of the Top 100 Universities in China’s ‘211’ Project. As the only school in China that is exclusively specialized in securities and futures, the School of Securities and Futures was established in September 28, 2008 to train both full time undergraduate and postgraduate students. The School is structured innovatively on the basis of cooperation between the University and industries, and is directed by the school council. The former CSRC Chairman, Professor Zhengqing Zhou, is the honorable dean of the School.
Finance as the core of modern economy plays a dominating role in economic development nowadays. SWUFE has a long history in developing this discipline and has made prominent achievements, which can be a solid backup to the School of Securities and Futures. One the other hand, the establishment of this new school is one of the most important strategic decisions of SWUFE to construct a ‘Galaxy of Superior Subjects in Finance’, which is built around the national key subject of Finance and supported by three major areas across Banking, Insurance, Securities and Futures.
Leading by the University and cooperating with the members of the School Council, we follow the spirit of SWUFE and keeps to the motto ‘Open and Accommodate, Competitive and Innovative’. Oriented by internationalization, market and the future, we commit to be open minded and innovatively building a school with unique characteristics. Our objectives are: bringing up specialists for the regulation bodies, stock exchanges, institutions, mutual funds, futures companies and other securities related corporations; providing support to the development of China’s financial market with policy oriented researches both theoretically and empirically. We devote ourselves to establish an important base of elite’s education, high level research and high quality social services. Our success will contribute significantly to SWUFE to become one of the outstanding Universities.
The School is organized to be including one department and four research units, which are the Department of Securities and Futures, Macroeconomics and Capital Market Research Unit, Industry and Capital Allocation Research Unit, Derivatives and Asset Pricing Research Unit and Capital Market Simulation and Testing Research Unit. Currently we have 18 academic staff including 13 professors (full time and part time) and 5 full time associate professors. Our team consists of academic researcher that has been long devoted to theoretical and empirical research of security market Professor Yongfu Feng; officials in the regulation bodies such as former CSRC Chairman Professor Zhengqing Zhou, former Deputy CSRC Chairman Professor Guangshao Tu, CSRC Chairman Assistant Professor Yang Jiang; well known specialists in the industries such as the President of Guoxin Securities Co. Ltd. Professor Jizhi Hu and the Vice President of China Galaxy Serurities Co. Ltd. Professor Mei Li.
To achieve the objective of bringing up innovative elites with strong theoretical background, comprehensive professional knowledge and excellent personal quality, our school provides the following degree courses:
Undergraduate Programs: BSc. in Finance (Securities and Futures). Core modules include: Investment, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Behavioral Finance, Fixed Income Securities, Futures Option and other Derivatives, Securities Law and Regulation, International Financial Markets, Topics in China’s Capital Markets etc.
Postgraduate Taught Programs: MSc. in Finance (Operation and Regulation of Securities Markets; Securities and Futures Investment). Core modules include: Asset Pricing, Advanced Topics in Securities Analysis, Risk Management, Principle and Practice of New Investment Tools, International Securities Markets, Regulation and Supervision of Securities Market and etc.
Postgraduate Research Program: PhD in Finance (Capital Market Research). Core modules include: Finance and Research Methods, Securities Simulation and Risk Management, Advanced Research of Capital Market Theory and Practice, Financial Asset and Derivatives Pricing, Capital Market Accounting and Finance etc.