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Futures
"Excellent overall coverage of futures and extremely relevant." Hedge Fund Administrator, Cayman Islands
Featured Course
Futures
Duration: Half day
Course Overview
At the end of this course participants will be able to
- Explain how futures trading works
- Describe the different types of contract
- Explain how fund managers use different types of futures contracts
- Describe the potential benefits and risks associated with trading futures
- Calculate and account for initial, maintenance and variation margins, realized & unrealized gains and losses
- Identify likely sources of valuation errors, the potential impact of those errors and how they can be prevented
Course Content
- Background
- Terminology
- Types of futures contracts
- Bloomberg descriptions
- Futures trading: margin
- Gain/loss calculations
- Broker statements
- Accounting for futures
- Risk & control
Who should attend?
Staff with little or no experience of futures but with some experience of equities or fixed income securities.
