When the pandemic hit and giving presentations in-person wasn’t possible, we redesigned the required internship course credit assignment and hired a production studio to deliver a one-day event called Internships Showcase. Based on the three-minute thesis competition, we challenged our grads to present their Winter internship highlights in three minutes using only three slides. Internship...Read More

The cost of attending graduate school in a program like MMF is steep. Tuition alone can be the equivalent of an annual salary (>CA$56,000), along with incidental fees. Add to that the cost of living in a major urban centre like Toronto for a year or more. Many students apply for scholarships in the hope...Read More

Climate change has increasing financial impacts on society in a variety of ways, for example through the large-scale destruction of property and the disruption of supply chains caused by extreme weather events. These impacts are expensive to the individual as well as to financial institutions. Modelling climate risk is one method that financial institutions can...Read More

Internships are steppingstones to kick-starting a career in quantitative finance. Every year, MMF grads work full-time from January through April, giving them hands-on experience using the cutting-edge skills they learned in the program. Employers include big five Canadian banks, top pension funds, asset management firms, big four consulting companies and fintech enterprises. What interns learn...Read More