BWB3049-IBF3 - Bank- and Insurance Management

Degree programme, semester ECTS Module type Teaching types (Professor/s) Study and working Module-level additive Type of module
language additive

BSc Business Administration, 2018-2019, 6 FS, VZ, Bern 3 WP Gl (Schreiber Csilla) English Specialised
BSc Business Administration, 2018-2019, 8 FS, BB, Bern 3 WP Gl (Schreiber Csilla) English Specialised

Legend for type of module WP: Elective module

Legend for teaching types Gl: Group lesson

Module responsibility Csilla Schreiber-Orosz, CFA

Short description of the Introduction to bank and Insurance Management and Management of other financial institutions (e.g. Reinsurers, Pension Funds, Private Equity Funds).
module
Main Topics:
Strategic Management (Business Line, Corporate Strategy) / Business Models / Regulatory Aspects / Corporate Governance

Requirements -

Competencies upon Subject: Students

completion - know the management tasks of financial institutions (e.g. markets, strategies, business models, regulatory aspects).

Method: Students
- apply different management concepts on a specific industry.

Social: Students
- work together on various business cases/presentations during the courses. Therefore, they learn to organise a team to reach a certain goal.

Self: Students
- learn to ask the right questions in specific management situations.

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Content - regulatory aspects of the financial services industry

- introduction to banks, insurance and re-insurance
- strategies / business models / corporate governance of banks insurance and re-insurance companies
- financial institutions and capital markets

Teaching and Learning - classroom teaching

method - self study
- team work/presentations

Literature Indispensable literature:

- Financial Times, Handelsblatt

Recommended literature:
- Financial Institutions Management, A Risk Management Approach: Antony Sauders, Marcia Millon Cornett, 7th Edition
- Financial Institutions and Markets, Jeff Madura, 9th Edition

Additional, continuative literature:

- Handelsblatt, Financial Times

Workload 90 hours

Contact lessons 6 x 4 lessons

Attendance requirement During lectures with guest speaker only

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Proof of competence Written Exam, 90 min, 100%, end of semester (CW 26 or 27)

The lecturer is free to allocate additional points, on top of maximal points in written exam, for classroom presentations. The lecturer is free to allocate 5-10% of additional points, for
classroom presentation, compared to maximal points of the exam. The classroom presentation dates/topics will be announced in the first lecture. Presentations are subject to a group
work on a voluntary basis.

Aids for written examination - BFH-Calculator (TI-30 ECO RS)

- printed dictionary (mother tongue - examination language)

(For details to the aids allowed during written exams see "information on study and examination regulations" on Moodle.)

Continuative, in depth -
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Comment -

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