Instructor Led Asset Managers Training

Intermediate Mathematics Understanding Stochastic Calculus Course Outline The use of Probability theory in financial modelling can be traced back to the work on Bachelier at the beginning of last century with advanced probabilistic methods being introduced for the first time by Black, Scholes and Merton in the seventies. The modern financial quantitative analysts make use of sophisticated mathematical concepts, such as martingales and stochastic  more...

Asset Allocation and the Business Cycle Course Outline Understanding how economic fundamentals influence the returns from bonds and stocks in a changing global environment is essential in determining an optimal portfolio asset mix. This course looks at asset allocation in the context of both business cycle dynamics and structural changes in the world economy, including changing patterns of inflation/ deflation, shifts in productivity  more...

Advanced Mathematics Financial Tools and Applications ...st participants have included: Chief investment officers, Asset Managers, Strategists, Private Banks, Relationship Managers. Prior Knowledge: Differential calculus, yield curves, duration, convexity, covariance matrix, Riemann integral, ODE (covered in Maths Refresher) Random variable, expectation and moments, conditional expectation, Central Limit Theorem, Random walk, Markov chain,  more...