MMF NEWS

MMF Applications Open October 1 2024

Applications for Fall 2025 entry into the MMF Program are now open as of October 1 2024. Click here to begin your application.

Do you have questions about your application for admission to the 2025-2026 school year? Bring them to our information session on Wednesday October 16th, 9am EDT. Join the call at https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85358985284

If you are interested in joining the MMF Program in the future, click here for more information on MMF’s application criteria, and be sure to follow MMF on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook, and Spotify for more updates throughout the year.

MMF Blog: Wealth Management

We asked Joshua Weiss, former Director of Sales Engineering at d1g1t and now Private Wealth Manager at Quadrant Private Wealth, how his passion for applying math and finance led him to a career in wealth management. He shares his journey.

MMF Ranked A Top-25 Quant Program By Risk.net

This year’s Risk.net annual ranking of the top Quant Finance Master’s programs has been released. MMF has moved up five places to 13th, and it’s still the only Canadian university to be in the top 25 programs listed.

               

ABOUT MMF

Established in 1998 MMF remains at the forefront of training in quantitative finance. MMF is a boutique Program admitting a select number of students each year who will move through the Program as one cohort. The boutique nature of our Program means that students will learn in smaller class sizes, have the opportunity to build lasting bonds with their classmates and work in industry-like teams to complete projects and presentations.

If you have advanced math, statistics and programming skills you may be a great fit for Quantitative Finance. After 12 months of training your Master of Mathematical Finance degree prepares you to join a dynamic and growing industry

Financial Mathematics is one of the fastest growing areas of applied mathematics. Institutions that employ financial mathematicians are among the wealthiest and most sophisticated corporations in the world. A career in financial mathematics provides you with an invigorating combination of intellectual challenge and accelerated professional growth.

A fast-track Program

During your 12 months of training in MMF your superior quantitative skills are focused on the tools of financial mathematics for the initial 4 months of course work. You then move into a full-time 4 month internship with one of our industry partners. Finally, you will complete course work during the last 4 months of the Program.

Applied mathematics in business is as demanding and interesting as it is in the sciences, engineering or technology

You may join an institution (hedge fund, bank, government or pension plan) with multibillion-dollar investment portfolios. You may manage sophisticated hedge funds, complex derivatives, assess the risk in a bank’s commercial loans portfolio or develop original software applications for financial markets. There have been Nobel Prizes awarded for work in financial mathematics.