London Financial Studies
London Financial Studies is a specialist teaching resource that concentrates exclusively on capital markets. We offer individuals, teams and companies expert teaching that combines theoretical understanding with practical experience.
Our business is driven by a distinct philosophy and clear values:
* Practical Application
* Intellectual Clarity
* Personal Approach
* Economic Value
Companies benefit:
After attending courses at London Financial Studies, employees are more confident, knowledgeable and equipped to deliver exceptional results. Colleagues and team members benefit directly in terms of productivity which in turn enhances company performance and profitability.
* Improve Team's Performance & Boost Productivity
* Increase Skills, Abilities & Confidence
* Help Build Best Practices
* Deliver Quality Education
* Gain Economic Value
Individuals benefit:
The learning experience at London Financial Studies delivers significant new skills, understanding of processes and product knowledge. This has a positive impact on confidence and performance. People perform better in their current roles, enhance the work of their teams and their career development prospects are greatly enhanced.
* Enhance Product Knowledge
* Boost Productivity
* Consolidate Knowledge
* Increase Market Value
* Increase Confidence
* Gain New Abilities
London Financial Studies is based in London, London, United Kingdom
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Collateral and Counterparty Risk Management
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This course explains and develops the ideas and models for collateral management and the measurement and quantification of counterparty risk. The ideas are built up sequentially and workshops are used to develop the key ideas including margin calculations, estimation of haircuts, credit exposure and pricing counterparty risk. Participants will be able to take away all worked examples and additional exercises and models implemented using Excel functions and macros.
Who The Course is For
* Credit traders and credit officers
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Credit Derivatives 1 Risk Management Trading and Arbitrage
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Credit derivatives are integral to making sense of today?s markets. This two-day course provides a comprehensive view of how credit derivatives are used for risk management, to create profitable opportunities through trading and arbitrage, and to create liquidity. It will provide an in-depth description of all credit products including Default Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Credit Linked Notes, CDOs and more...
Credit Derivatives 2 Practical Implications of Pricing
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The accurate and consistent pricing of credit derivatives is crucial to gaining a competitive edge in today's market. The objective of this workshop is to develop a solid understanding of the current frameworks for pricing credit derivatives and to give participants the mathematical and practical background necessary to evaluate the various pricing methodologies on the market.
* Practical and hands-on development of the models in use for CDO evaluation
* Illustration of why the models failed in the summer of 2007
* Sensitivity analysis to test breaking points of more...
Problem Loan Management Navigating the Credit Crisis
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After marginal loans are closed and funded there is usually an opportunity for the loan officer to observe warning signs to prevent those loans from becoming classified or even going into bankruptcy. This course provides a strong analytical foundation so delegates can set up an effective ?Early Warning System? for prospective borrowers and loans already in the portfolio.
This workshop is a banker?s survival guide that explores the dynamics of troubled companies from the perspective of the new credit environment and increasing regulatory requirements ? that is, more...
Quantitative Techniques for Credit Derivatives
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The objective of this course is to develop a solid understanding of the current framework for modelling and pricing credit derivatives. Participants will gain the mathematical and practical background necessary to apply the various models in the market and will learn about recent advances in the field.
Who The Course is For
* Quantitative analysts
* Risk managers
* Financial engineers
* Researchers
* and others who are involved in credit risk modelling in the capital markets
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Econometrics
Data Analysis for Risk Management
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In current market conditions an understanding of the key econometrics principles is essential to risk management. This programme introduces the main concepts in econometrics that are needed to understand and manipulate data sets and basic models to tackle practical problems faced daily by organisations operating in the capital markets. The course is highly relevant for anyone who wishes to increase their understanding of analysing or interpreting financial market data.
Who The Course is For
* Traders
* Risk Managers
* Strategists
* more...
Modelling Financial Risk
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In current market conditions a rigorous approach to risk management is essential. This programme applies some of the latest econometric and data handling techniques to practical problems faced daily by organisations operating in the capital markets. The course is highly relevant to anyone analysing or interpreting financial market data.
Who The Course is For
* Traders
* Risk Managers
* Strategists
* Consultants
* Middle and Senior Managers
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Equity
Behavioural Finance and Equity Investment Strategies
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Modern finance portrays 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 behavioural finance. The course includes a discussion of common psychological errors such as wishful thinking, extrapolation bias, tunnel vision, inertia, lack of self-discipline and emotional distortion. more...
Convertible Bonds and Securities
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This course explains in detail the broad range of convertible securities and associated applications and trading strategies. Participants will undertake a series of workshops to explain the key ideas including pricing convertible bonds, the incorporation of credit risk, calculating Greeks and simulating trading strategies. Exercises and pricing models are implemented using Excel functions and macros and participants will be able to take away all worked examples.
Who The Course is For
* Traders
* Credit and more...
Equity Derivatives Advanced Models
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This course introduces and applies advanced models for the pricing of equity derivatives. The objective of the workshop is to develop a solid understanding of the current frameworks for pricing equity derivatives and to give participants the mathematical and practical background necessary to apply the various pricing methodologies to the market.
Delegates are entitled to a 30 discount on Schoutens's book, L vy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial more...
Equity Derivatives Valuation and Management
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Equity derivatives have been growing in importance over a number of years and are now well established in the financial marketplace. This seminar is for anyone who wishes to be able to price, use, manage or evaluate equity derivatives and exotic equity options. More than half of the seminar is devoted to practical small group sessions.
Who The Course is For
Anyone who wishes to be able to price, use, manage, or evaluate equity derivatives and exotic equity options.
Past participants have included: Traders, more...
Fixed Income and Inflation
BGM Market Models Calibration Smile Pricing and Advances with lessons from the Crisis
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The BGM Libor and Swap Market Models are the last generation of financial models for interest rate derivatives, with an importance in pricing and hedging financial products that has grown in the recent market turmoil.
Discover new developments and cutting edge techniques in Libor and Swap Market Models. This in-depth course reviews foundations and illustrates the latest advances, including lessons learnt from the financial crisis. This will give participants the opportunity more...
Interest Rate Derivatives 2 Second Generation Techniques
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A comprehensive seminar on pricing and managing second generation interest rate derivatives.
What used to be called exotic interest rate derivatives are now commonplace and an essential part of the financial marketplace.
This intensive seminar is for anyone who wishes to be able to use, price, manage, market or evaluate standard second generation interest rate derivatives such as Constant Maturity Swaps and Quantos. Seminar groups are kept small and more than half of the course is devoted to practical more...
Interest Rate Derivatives Hedging and Managing Risk
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A comprehensive seminar on pricing and managing interest rate derivatives.
This course is charged and can be booked by the day. Select the days that meet your needs, or participate in the whole course for a thorough grounding in these instruments.
Who The Course is For
This course is designed for anyone who wishes to be able to price, use, market, manage or evaluate interest rate derivatives and currency swaps including:
* Directors, treasurers, dealers and trainees
* Corporate finance and investment managers
* Accountants, auditors and IT personnel
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Mortgage-Backed Securities Assessment Management of Risk
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This intensive and participative 2-day programme covers the key elements of mortgage backed securities. Terminology, procedures, models and applications of MBS concepts will be included along with the latest products used for hedging the risks and for developing new markets.The first day will cover the risk factors and prepayment models and day two will deal with balance guaranteed swaps, property derivatives and equity release mortgages.
Who the Course is for
* Risk Managers
* Portfolio more...
Using Inflation Derivatives in Today s Market
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The market for inflation derivatives and other index-linked products is growing rapidly. The programme covers the mechanics of the instruments, their valuation and how they can be used to take or hedge inflation exposure alone or embedded in other structures.
Traders, risk managers, fund managers, project finance and structured finance practitioners, accountants, auditors, consultants and anyone interested in the use and operation of index linked securities and their derivatives.More than half of the seminar is devoted to practical small group sessions. These intensive exercises include simulations using more...
General Capital Markets
Asset Allocation and the Business Cycle
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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 growth and the impact of asset price bubbles and busts.
The program will provide an understanding of how bonds and stocks respond to changes in the economy and economic policy. Participants will learn how different asset classes behave over the long more...
Risk Management and Modelling
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This course develops a set of tools essential for the accurate management of the wide range of risks encountered in capital markets. Techniques are applied cumulatively in a sequence of workshops that include Value at Risk and its limitations, practical uses of Monte Carlo simulations and the Merton and Gaussian approaches for estimation of probabilities.
Who The Course is For
* Traders and more...
The Impact of Economic Data on Financial Markets
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Understanding the role of economic indicators which determine market performance is an essential skill in the context of an increasingly sophisticated and complex financial marketplace. This course identifies the information that really matters and provides an insight into how best to interpret the increasing wealth of data now available.
Who The Course is For
This programme is for anyone who needs to appreciate the relevance of economic statistics to the financial markets including:
* Traders
* Corporate treasurers
* Investment and risk managers
* Consultants
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Mathematics
Advanced Mathematics Financial Tools and Applications
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The scope of this course is to revise some of the theories and principles used for calculating the price of financial derivatives. The Black-Scholes model is used as the starting point but gradually the level of complexity is increased to discuss the jump-diffusion models, stochastic volatility models as well as discussions of pricing various exotic pay-offs that will be the new vanilla products tomorrow.
Who The Course is For
Quantitative analysts, risk managers, product controllers, financial engineers, researchers. more...
Intermediate Mathematics Understanding Stochastic Calculus
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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 integration, in order to describe more...
Maths Refresher
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Mathematics is at the heart of financial techniques, but many finance texts and courses assume a lot of prior knowledge. This programme aims to bridge the gap between mathematical theory and financial practice by providing a practical and visual approach to the most useful theories and methods. Calculations will be fully explained, and Excel spreadsheets will be used as a supporting resource to provide further examples.
Who The Course is For
Anyone who needs to develop their understanding and use of mathematics in a financial context.
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Other Asset Classes
Commodities and Commodity Derivatives
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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 as volume risk, mean-reversion, the forward curve, and the theory of storage. Plain-vanilla and exotic options on commodities will be analysed, as well as a real options approach to energy physical assets. Lastly, different ways of investing in more...
FX Exotic Options
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Foreign Exchange exotics are becoming increasingly commonplace in today's capital markets. The objective of this workshop is to develop a solid understanding of the current exotic currency derivatives used in international treasury management. This will give participants the mathematical and practical background necessary to deal with all the products on the market.
Delegates are entitled to a 30 discount on Uwe's book, FX Options & Structured Products
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Introduction to Commodities
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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 product class, the impact of fundamentals on price action, and the limitations of current financial products in managing the risk.
This course will review the development of commodity markets, describe current commodity markets including how products are defined more...
Property Derivatives
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Terminology, procedures, models and applications related to the latest real-estate derivatives will be covered in this course. The first day is dedicated to forwards and futures and to the introduction of a new type of modelling based on mean-reverting models with nonlinear trend. Day two covers total return swaps and options pricing and risk calculations based on value-at-risk and expected shortfall measures.
Who 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 more...
Structured Products Design Pricing and Implementation
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A comprehensive seminar on the design, use and pricing of structured products. This course explains how the products are constructed, hedged and applied in live situations.
Practical workshops illustrate the details of product design and use. They provide participants with the confidence that stems from a solid understanding of the current frameworks for pricing and applying exotic options.
Who The Course is For
* Structured Products Desks, Financial Engineers, more...
Volatility Trading and Managing Risk
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The course starts by providing an understanding of how to estimate volatility and the consequences of the various ways of describing volatile asset prices. This leads into sessions on the application of a range of standard volatility derivatives such as VIX futures and options and volatility swaps. The final part of the programme covers the treatment of volatility in the more popular stochastic volatility models used in the industry such as SABR and Heston and provides insights into the most relevant approaches to more...
Quantitative Techniques
Implementing Fundamental Quantitative Techniques
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In a complicated financial world a detailed understanding of the application of quantitative techniques is essential. This course provides an in-depth coverage of practical quantitative methods important in today's financial markets.
This course is charged and can be booked by the day. Select the days that meet your needs, or participate in the whole course for a thorough understanding of these important techniques.
Who The Course is For
Anyone who needs to understand a comprehensive set of tools for managing risk in the financial markets. The seminar will be of more...
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