The Investment Activity Department is one of the leading departments of the Finance and Economics Faculty of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University. It was established in the course of the division of the Banking Department in August 1996 to provide solid training to specialists in the field of lending and investments. Professor Kostiantyn Zullas, whose academic and teaching experience exceeds 50 years, was one of the founders of the Department. The Investment Activity Department is a graduation department. Till 2004, it trained students under the master programme in the Management of Bank Investments. Starting from academic year 2004/2005, a new master programme in the Financing of Investment Projects was introduced.

From 1996 to 2007 the Department was headed by Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Anatoliy Peresada.

Since 2008, the Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Tatiana Mayorova is the head of Investment Activity Department.

The young scientists, who belong to the teaching stuff nowadays, have finished the post-graduate courses of the Department. Furthermore, the graduates of Investment Activity Department work in financial institutions and in almost all sectors of the national economy.

The Department supports the scientific collaboration with other national academic and educational institutions, cooperation with foreign banks for trainings' realization. The complex topics of joint researches are implemented by the Department's teaching stuff. Such researches are connected with the questions of innovative activity, investment projects' financing, and financial investments' management. The teachers of the Department take part in annual scientific and methodical conferences, which aim to improvement of essence and forms of educational process' organization in accordance with international standards. The teachers of the Department are active participants of scientific and research work. Such researches are important for the further practical use.

Furthermore, the students are active involved to the Department's researches. The results of such researches are represented by their publishing in students' digests. Moreover, the students are involved to participation in students' conferences and competitions.