Strategy and Finance
About the course
This module will be held at Melbourne Business School 22 to 25 May 2026.
The module deepens participants understanding of strategy and finance. The module addresses general strategy, but also emphasises the strategy challenges faced by Australian superannuation funds, with particular emphasis on the opportunities and threats posed by disruption of the industry fund sector. Finance is discussed at length in terms of how it supports and constrains the creation and implementation of strategy.
Scholarship opportunities for this module are now available, applications opened Wednesday 10th December 2025 and close Friday 20th February 2026.
Objectives
The module’s purpose is to improve the participants’ understanding of:
Frameworks and language
Strategic positioning
Competitive forces
Job to be done
Types of disruption
Resources, processes and profit formula
Deliberate strategy and emergent strategy
Asset liability matching and liquidity
Risk Management
Capital budgeting and project evaluation
Financing growth
Fees
AUD$6,900
Please note fees include tuition, materials, accommodation and meals. This course will be a residential module
Applications
Unless you have previously enrolled, you will need to enroll with the Melbourne Business School to complete the module. To do this, download and complete an Application Form and return to FEAL with the supporting documentation. Please note new enrolments can take 2-3 weeks for processing.
If you have previously enrolled with the Melbourne Business School - either for the FEAL/MBS Masters Program or any other course - you do not need to complete the Application Forum again. Please email Katrina Bacon, CEO, FEAL katrina.bacon@feal.asn.au to advise your intention to complete this module.
Taught by
Sam Wylie, Principal Fellow, Melbourne Business School
About the lecturer
Sam Wylie is a Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Business School, an Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne and the founder of Windlestone Education. Sam’s research and consulting is focused on wealth management, banking, corporate finance, and financial crises.
Sam has worked with global and Australian companies, including Australian Super, NAB, ANZ, UOB, Merrill Lynch, BHP, CSR, Leightons, AMP, Franklin Templeton, Resource Capital Fund and various family offices to name a few. His commentary appears regularly in the Australian Financial Review and on national radio and television and he is the author of a national newsletter.
Sam teaches MBA courses in corporate finance & strategy, financial institutions and risk management at MBS, and is the twelve (12) times winner of the student voted best teacher award.
Sam was an Assistant Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in New Hampshire from 1997-2004. He obtained his PhD from the London Business School. From 1986-1992, Sam was an Intelligence Officer with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and is married with three adult children.
