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MFI candidates 2020 - 2021 What our industry Contents Message from Program Director ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 partners say about Outline of Program ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Foundation of Program ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 MFI students: Hiring a Work Term Student ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 Partners and Supporters from Industry ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������7 Ways to Get Involved �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 What Industry Partners Have To Say ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������9 Student Profiles �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10 “Very impressed by “It has been a great the superb technical pleasure working with the Sirui Bai ��������������������������������������������������������� 12 Huasi (Iris) Ou ���������������������������������������26 Qiandan (Tanya) Deng ������������������������������������ 13 Shiya (Sophie) Ou ����������������������������������27 skill, creativity, and MFI students. They are Tunan (Kris) Jia ���������������������������������������������� 14 Jingyao (Joyce) Qiao�������������������������������28 professionalism shown by enthusiastic and engaged Rong (Belle) Jiang ������������������������������������������ 15 Kevin Wang �������������������������������������������29 the MFI student we hired for learners, which makes me Zhichun (Michelle) Kang �������������������������������� 16 Qiwen (Wendy) Wang �����������������������������30 Chi Fung (Leo) Leung ������������������������������������� 17 Yuling (Tim) Wang ���������������������������������31 the summer internship..... feel more motivated about Fengjiao (Betty) Li ������������������������������������������ 18 Hanzhi (Jessie) Wu ��������������������������������32 The work exceeded my my teaching.” Qianqian (Lydia) Li ����������������������������������������� 19 Hongda (William) Wu�����������������������������33 expectations.” Ling Luo, Manulife Zixuan (Leo) Lin���������������������������������������������� 20 Yaru Yang ����������������������������������������������34 Emile Elefteriadis, Swiss Re “I have found the Yangshan (Lance) Liu������������������������������������� 21 Chenming (Ming) Ye ������������������������������35 Yuhui (Rika) Liu ��������������������������������������������� 22 Ruolin Yuan �������������������������������������������37 MFI students to be Yuzhou Liu ������������������������������������������������������ 23 Yuxuan (Gina) Zhang ����������������������������38 hardworking, curious and Tianyu (Erin) Ma ��������������������������������������������� 24 Sichao (Michael) Zhu ����������������������������39 intelligent.” Meet our Alumni ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 40 Chen Muthukumaraswamy, WTW Our 2020 MFI Award Recipients ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 42 Program Contact Information ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 50 Message from Program Director Outline of Program First off, Sarah, Shari and I wish that you are all healthy and staying safe in these very challenging The Department of Statistical Sciences offers the Master of Financial Insurance times. We are all treading uncharted and murky waters with currents that pull us in a myriad of Program (MFI), a full-time professional program focused on producing students SEPTEMBER directions. Yet, society and individuals are soldiering onwards and there is no doubt that we will who will become leaders in the global finance, fintech, and insurance industry. TO come out of this stronger. The program stands on three pillars: data science, financial mathematics, and DECEMBER insurance modeling. It provides students with education at the interface of these The Masters of Financial Insurance (MFI) professional program was launched in September domains with sufficient depth and breadth so that 2016 to address the growing need for skilled professionals with the unique blend of data science, students can provide both detailed analysis of finance mathematical finance and insurance. Staying adaptable, this year the MFI Program moved courses and insurance risks, as well as provide a bird’s-eye JANUARY online, as part of the University’s overall response to stop the spread of COVID-19. It has its perspective on how the embedded risks affect the firm TO challenges, but there are also opportunities – e.g., students can now re-watch lectures, practitioners enterprise wide. APRIL from Europe can easily participate in our seminars, and there is even more project-based content. The program is particularly appropriate for students Since 2016, the MFI program has developed and grown rapidly and demand from students and with backgrounds in statistics, actuarial science, employers has been beyond expectations - now in our fifth year we have grown to 26 students economics, and mathematics, or students with a quantitative background (such MAY (over 60% women) and boast many partnerships ranging over all areas of finance, fintech, as those in physics and engineering). While students have different backgrounds TO insurance, pensions, and consulting. Partner firms not only employ our highly qualified candidates, coming into the program, they are trained together as one cohort. In the first AUGUST but industry professionals also co-teach courses, develop curriculum, deliver seminars, and visit semester, students are exposed to core theory and methodology, in addition to the Program to speak about their particular field of expertise. This exposure and connection to numerous industrial seminars. While in the second semester, they work on a industry provides our students with unique learning opportunities and key insider knowledge. variety of case studies and projects led by industry professionals. FROM SEPTEMBER AVAILABLE FOR FULL The response we receive from industry partners on the quality of the students and their training is The MFI Program runs for 12 months, from September to August. Students take TIME WORK! second to none, and we are confident that our alumni will become leaders in the field and make academic courses in the first two semesters with the program culminating in a important contributions here, in Canada, and beyond. 16 week work-term placement designed to provide real-world experience in finance and/or insurance. As an added bonus students are ready to start full time We are confident that if you offer a summer (or longer) opportunity to an MFI candidate from the work or extend their contracts into September! Class of 2021, you will be impressed with their intellect, professionalism, and knowledge. FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER Applied Probability for Mathematical Finance Financial Risk Management Applied Time-Series Analysis Finance and Insurance Case Studies Life Insurance Mathematics Numerical Methods for Finance & Insurance Data Science for Risk Modeling Data Science in Practice Professor and Director of the MFI Program Industrial Seminar Series (Part 1) One Elective Course in a Related Topic Sebastian Jaimungal Industrial Seminar Series (Part 2) 4 MFI Masters of Financial Insurance MFI Masters of Financial Insurance 5 Foundation of Program Partners and Supporters from Industry Traditionally, the finance and insurance worlds are quite distinct, but this distinction is We are immensely grateful for the interest shown by our industry partners in supporting disappearing. Financial firms are taking exposure to insurance risks, insurance companies are the next generation of industry professionals and our partners are continually growing. providing guarantees to their clients that fundamentally intertwines them with the financial Aon markets, and pension plans provide income guarantees which profoundly link their obligations Aon Pathwise ™ to the these markets. The Masters of Financial Insurance (MFI) program answers the growing AxiomSL need from industry to fulfil this unique skill set. Bank of Montreal Berkshire Hathaway Group Reinsurance The MFI is a professional program that provides candidates with a sophisticated understanding Canada Life of this complex interaction of the financial and insurance fields. The program contains a Canada Mortgage & Housing Association comprehensive set of offerings and students gain rigorous training in data science, actuarial Coinsquare science and finance. Graduates from this program are versatile and well armed to face CI Investments the highly skilled work required of them in the banking, insurance, pension, fintech, and CIBC consulting industries. CPPIB d1g1t Forester’s Financial Great-West Life Hiring a Work Term Student Hannover Reinsurance High Street Asset Management IBM You can test drive new “pre-professionals” through a cost Manulife effective, risk free environment and also