Swiss Finance Academy

Swiss Finance Academy was founded in 2004 as an international summer school for corporate finance and business. The Academy held its first programs in Switzerland and then expanded to various locations such as Lugano, Verbier, London, Boston and New York City.

Swiss Finance Academy has attracts students from more than 25 countries and 50 top-tier universities including all US Ivy League schools. The Academy’s graduates have been reportedly hired by banks such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase. The student and alumni base of Swiss Finance Academy now exceeds 500. Admission officials from global business schools such as Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and INSEAD also visit Swiss Finance Academy to represent their MBA programs.

Training covers financial modeling, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, fixed income securities, private equity, comparables based analysis, hedge funds, Swiss banking and derivatives, as well as case studies, team projects, presentations, and interview training.

A large number of training hours spent inside as well as outside of the classroom are intended to offer students a real-world perspective of the demands of the banking industry.
Students include university undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates and working professionals. Swiss Finance Academy is selective in its admission.

Academics

Valuation is one of the core responsibilities of an investment banker and therefore Swiss Finance Academy focuses on corporate and securities valuation. Students learn about adjusted firm value, valuation discounts and premia (such as control premia and minority discounts), Sum-of-the-Parts valuation, mechanics of private equity, exit value considerations, leveraged buyouts including LBO debt market characteristics, Hybrid IDS, etc. This capital markets segment introduces capital markets and investment banking activities, and sets the stage for understanding Wall Street, the financial City of London and the Swiss banking industry. Students are offered perspectives on global macro events and economic development from an investment banker’s point of view. Students later learn about proprietary trading methods, technical and fundamental analysis of markets as well as securities. The class discusses hedge fund strategies such as macro, risk arbitrage, fixed income arbitrage, managed futures, equity hedge, statistical trading and convertible arbitrage.

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