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Managing Global Commodities Risks and Riding the Spikes
Day One
Fundamentals of Spot and Forward Commodity Markets
- Outlook of Commodity Markets in 2013
- Price Formation in Commodity Spot Prices
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Commodity Exchanges: The Old and the New
- The Importance of Liquid Indexes for the Growth of Derivatives: the Major Lessons from Iron Ore and Steel during the year 2010
- Shipping as an Important Part of Commodities Trading
- Shipping Indexes and Freight Derivatives
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Inventory and Commodity Spot Price Volatility: the Evidence from Agriculturals and Metals
- Theory of Storage and Convenience Yield
- Carry Trade Relationship and Shape of the Forward Curve
- Margin Deposits and Margin Calls in Futures Trading
- Clearing and Settlement of Contracts
- The New Rules on Margin deposits
- Hedging with
- Futures and Forwards
- Swaps
- Futures on swaps
Case study: Hedging Strategies for an Oil Refiner
Metals
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Base Metals
- Aluminium
- Copper
- Nickel, Tin, Lead, Zinc
- Iron Ore and Steel
- The London Metal Exchange
- Warehouses Approval
- The new Exchanges: Shanghai, Singapore
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Precious Metals
- Gold over the last 10 years
- Silver and its particular role
Platinum, Palladium and Spread Trading
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Uranium and Rare Earths
- Examples and their Use in Major Industries
- Their Scarcity and Geopolitical Issues
Energy
- Crude Oil and Oil Refined Products
- Oil Forward Curves over the last ten years
- Stochastic Modelling of the Forward Curve
Case study: Hedging Strategies for an Industrial Consumer
Day Two
Energy
- Natural Gas, Shale Gas and LNG
- Coal and its Importance in major Countries
- Electricity and its future sources
Risk Management of Commodities and Raw Materials
- The Use of Options to Hedge or Get Exposure to Commodity Prices
- Plain- Vanilla Options on Futures
- Traded Average Price Options (TAPOs)and Average Rate Swaps on the LME
- Exchange and Spread Options
- Volatility Skew/Smile in Commodities and its Information content
- Hedging agricultural Risk with Weather Derivatives and Yield Insurance
Agricultural Commodities
- Demography and Food Production
- The International Food Trade
- Agricultural Technologies and Yield Growth
- Fertilizers as a Growing Market
- The New Fertilizer Swaps
- The Volatility in Corn and Wheat Prices
- Rice and Soybeans as Crucial Commodities
- Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar
- Seasonality in Agricultural Commodities Forward Curves
- Biofuels, Ethanol and their Impact on Commodity Prices
- Water as the Next Commodity: examples from Australia, China
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Mergers, Acquisitions and IPOs in the Mining World
- Metals ETFs: the Value of Physical Backing
Investing in Commodities
- The different vehicles, from ETFs to Indexes and Structured Notes
- Returns on Commodity - Related Shares
- The Challenges in building and managing a Commodity Index: First and Second
- Generation Indexes
- High Frequency Trading of ETFs and ETNs
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