High on SMU Vice President (Business Development and External Relations) Associate Professor Annie Koh’s agenda is to spearhead the University’s push to be a national and regional leader in financial education. “Financial education is going to get a lot more exciting in the coming years. It’s no longer just the textbook way of learning,” she said. On SMU’s part, Finance and Financial Markets is one of its key areas of excellence, having played an integral role in developing talents for Singapore’s financial sector since the University opened in 2000. Among SMU’s signature offerings are the Master of Science in Applied Finance, the University’s first postgraduate programme; the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance, which awards a joint degree by SMU and City University London; and the Master of Science in Wealth Management, ranked second in the world by The Financial Times in its Masters in Finance Post-experience Ranking 2013, making SMU the top institution in Asia to be ranked.