Course description
Financial Markets for HR Professionals
The Financial Markets for HR Professionals course is a one-day seminar is designed to give HR professionals an invaluable insight into the capital and derivatives markets. Each topic will be explained in a clear and helpful way, so that participants can interpret the jargon, understand how each product works, and appreciate the role their organisation plays within the financial markets as a whole.
After attending the seminar, participants will be better able to discuss meaningfully the needs of practitioners in the business and deliver more effective solutions to their development needs.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
Anyone working in banking and finance.
Prerequisites
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
CPD: 7 hours
Learning Outcomes
By attending this course, you will:
- Obtain a clear overview of the purposes and functioning of the international financial markets
- Understand the various financial markets products and how they fit together
- Explore the range of derivative products, and why they are used
- Appreciate the relationships between different markets and products
- Obtain first-hand experience of each topic through interactive workshops, case studies, and simulation
Training Course Content
Understanding Time Value of Money
- TVM key concepts
- Present and future values
- Simple vs. compound interest
- Interest and discount factors
- Annuities, mortgages and loans
- 💻 TVM Exercise
Understanding the Yield Curve
- What is the yield curve?
- What gives the yield curve its shape?
- Why the yield curve is important
- 💻 The yield curve right now
Foreign Exchange and Money Markets
- Spot and forward FX markets
- How FX rates are quoted
- What drives the spot FX market
- Discount vs. coupon securities
- Interbank deposits and CDs
- Bills and the CP market
- LIBOR and its replacement
The Fixed Income Market
- Key features of bonds
- The US Treasury market
- Bunds, JGBs, OATs, BTPs and Gilts
- Corporate bonds
- Bond ratings
- The high-yield market
- Price and yield
- 💻 What duration and convexity is all about
The Equity Market
- International equity markets
- Types of equity product
- IPOs, rights, and convertibles
- How equities are valued
- Stock indices
- 💻 Equities trading session
Derivatives
- Futures exchanges and futures contracts
- Interest rate, bond, and stock-index futures
- Using futures to hedge risk
- 💻 How futures can transform a bond into a share
- Swaps – the workhorse of the derivatives market
- How interest rate swaps work
- Currency swaps
- 💻 How borrowers can use an interest rate swap
- Why options are different
- Options jargon
- Hockey sticks and payoff profiles
- What volatility is all about
- 💻 Using a call option
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Expenses
- London: £800 (plus VAT)
- New York: $995.00
- Virtual: £725 (plus VAT)