Investment - Training Resources

Introduction to Commodities Course Outline Current commodity markets have been growing and evolving for almost thirty years. Today, markets are more transparent, traded by a much more diverse group of financial participants and have been significantly impacted by globalisation vs. regional markets of the past. The key to participating successfully in these markets is to understand the unique features that exist in each  more...

Commodities and Commodity Derivatives Course Outline The current explosion of activity in commodity markets - expressed by the amount of capital flowing into this asset class and the remarkable growth of hybrids, structured notes and commodities indexes - makes this course essential for all those needing a thorough and detailed understanding of both spot and derivative transactions. The programme will cover fundamental issues such  more...

Property Derivatives ...ho The Course is For The course is useful for property investment desks and houses, risk managers that have to deal with this array of new derivatives, product control and model validation teams, hedge fund participants aiming at trading on the nascent real-estate derivatives markets, traders, research and policy departments. Prior Knowledge: * Basic knowledge of financial markets and  more...

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...

Advanced Mathematics Financial Tools and Applications ...eers, researchers. Past 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  more...

The Impact of Economic Data on Financial Markets ...ets including: * Traders * Corporate treasurers * Investment and risk managers * Consultants * Sales people Prior Knowledge General concepts of macroeconomic and applied economic theory, broad goals of monetary and fiscal policies, basic principles of financial products, probability theory. Objectives This programme will provide an understanding of what economic data mean  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...

Interest Rate Derivatives Hedging and Managing Risk ...reasurers, dealers and trainees * Corporate finance and investment managers * Accountants, auditors and IT personnel * Derivatives marketing executives, consultants, advisors and brokers Course Objectives * Explore the relationship between futures, forwards and FRAs * Build a zero coupon yield curve * Construct hedges * Price and revalue swaps * Structure asset and debt  more...

Behavioural Finance and Equity Investment Strategies ...investment decision-making as rational choice. However, pure rationality does not describe how many decisions are truly made. This course examines (1) the behavioural strategies that amateur and expert investors rely upon to make decisions, (2) the structure and speculative dynamics of returns in world equity markets (from a psychological perspective), and (3) the practical implications of  more...

Building High Performing Teams - Spectrain ...ent so they become high performing quickly and repay your investment in setting them up At no time in history has the demand for teamwork been greater. High-performing teams can reduce costs, provide greater flexibility and develop innovative solutions to complex business problems. Team members who have the skills to work together effectively can only produce results like these. This programme  more...

Telephone Skills Does your staff understand the basics of customer service? Do they know how to find out what customers really want when they phone for assistance? Do they know the right and wrong ways to handle difficult callers? The Telephone Skills workbook from Basic Learning Systems Inc. goes right to your bottom line. A small investment in training now will pay dividends later in customer retention and a  more...

Intensive Agile Work Seminar for Teams ...hods promise early, continuous and accelerating return on investment for stakeholders and high degrees of job satisfaction for team members. Yet creating a successful agile team is difficult. Why? Because agile methods, despite their benefits and simplicity, require a high degree of discipline on the part of team members, management and stakeholders. Due to this need for discipline, and  more...