Success in high finance is not luck. It is access and environment.
See Programs and Pricing →Practitioner-developed, delivered online, graded to professional standards. Pricing is on every program page. The flagship programs are by application; the Deal Modules are bought online with immediate access in the student portal.
Financial modelling, slide design, deal structuring, and graded casework built to firm expectations. 6 or 9 months, online.
How institutional portfolios are built, managed, and evaluated: valuation and risk across asset classes, macro strategy, allocation decision-making.
One-to-one guidance from a senior finance professional: strategy, accountability, and perspective tailored entirely to your goals.
Five self-paced, fictional deal simulations: IPO, M&A, LBO, venture capital, hedge fund. One-time purchase, lifetime access. The complete suite adds the Live Deal week in London.
Every course runs in the Academy's own deal platform: models you build line by line, a football field that redraws as your assumptions move, decision points with consequences, and mentor commentary at the moment you need it.
Screens from the course platform. All companies, deals, people and figures shown are fictional and exist for training purposes only.
Every guide tells you what an analyst does. This one shows you how the decisions actually get made.
You will learn how a comps set is built and how quietly it can be shaped. How a footnote moves a valuation. How LBO models, debt schedules, and credit committees really work. How a mandate is won, and why the analyst who thinks gets asked to stay. Every chapter puts you at the desk, then stops and teaches the mechanics behind what you just watched.
Book One covers the sell side: how companies are valued, marketed, and sold. Book Two crosses the table to private equity. Written by Sanjay Gupta and Swiss Finance Institute, for people who want to do the work, not just study it.
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Whichever program you choose, these are the four things you leave with.
Valuation, modelling, and deal mechanics practised the way they are used on live transactions, not the way they appear in textbooks.
An understanding of how institutional portfolios are constructed, evaluated, and stress-tested across market cycles.
The habit of making careful decisions under time pressure and incomplete information, built through case work and simulation.
Graduates receive a Swiss Finance Academy certificate of completion documenting the program and the work completed.
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Shaping the next generation of capital thinkers, from Switzerland to the world.
Swiss Finance Academy exists for one reason: to close the gap between where you are and where the finance industry actually needs you to be.
We are an online academy rooted in Switzerland and built for a global audience: students breaking into the industry, early-career professionals sharpening their edge, and emerging allocators developing real conviction in how capital moves.
Our programs are not lectures repackaged as courses. Every module is developed alongside institutional investors and taught by practitioners who are still active in the markets. You learn how deals actually get structured, how portfolios are really built, and how the people running capital think under pressure.
The outcome is not just a certificate on your wall. It is preparation for a career that moves forward.
Swiss Finance Academy is headquartered and administered in Switzerland. Our programs are delivered online to participants around the world.
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Participants presenting case work at a Swiss Finance Academy session.
We keep admissions personal. Apply with your background and goals, and our admissions team will walk you through program fit, format, and timing. Applications are reviewed individually.
Most programs have limited seats. You can apply now, or contact admissions with questions first.
Standard pricing is published on each program page: the Investment Banking Course from $4,900, the Institutional Investors Course at $20,000, the Mentorship Program from $20,000, and the Deal Modules from $3,900. Custom formats are scoped with admissions.
Standard pricing is published on each program page. The flagship programs are by application: apply online, and admissions confirms your format and start date and explains how to enroll. The Investment Banking Deal Modules are bought online and open in the student portal as soon as payment completes. Custom formats are scoped with admissions.
Every program ends with a Swiss Finance Academy certificate of completion. It documents the program you completed and the standard of the work you produced: case assessments, models, and presentations graded against professional expectations.
Online, through the Swiss Finance Academy learning platform: the full course structure, assignments, progress tracking, and direct channels for feedback from instructors and mentors. Swiss Finance Academy is headquartered and administered in Switzerland and teaches participants around the world.
No. Similar to many investment banks, our programs do not require participants to possess formal knowledge of finance or business; many accepted applicants come from sciences, mathematics, and even literature. A comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts ensures that within a few days participants become fluent in finance.
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