While the professional requirements and job profiles of employees in the financial industry are constantly evolving, the continuing education sector only partly adjusts the content of its program offerings in order to reflect these changes. In light of this context, the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is taking a new approach by launching the so-called Master Classes, which will shape and further differentiate the range of continuing education courses offered at SFI in the future. These intensive, half-day learning units are offered under the direction of accredited finance professors who are faculty members at Swiss Finance Institute research institutions, in close cooperation with high-level senior practitioners. They will address various current topics of particular relevance to the financial sector. “Our goal is to transfer new findings from financial research into professional practice in a timely manner, and thus to support the knowledge capital of the Swiss financial center more broadly, explains Prof. François Degeorge, Managing Director of SFI. To achieve this objective, we bring together the best academic minds, who belong to the international elite in financial research, with professionals in the financial sector, and thus create the basis for a highly efficient and promising exchange of know-how.”