PROPERTY DERIVATIVES:
Types, Usage, Risks

Course Outline

Property Derivatives discusses what is unique about derivatives where property is the underlying asset, and explores the many ways to use and misuse these derivatives. The course covers current housing futures and options, property index swaps and possible future developments.

Who The Course is For

  • Property investors
  • Property occupiers and valuers
  • Investment bankers
  • Traders
  • Risk managers, regulators, auditors and anyone else who has to comply with solvency II (or its equivalent)
  • Property accountants
  • House builders

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Prior Knowledge:

The course assumes basic knowledge of property investments and vanilla derivatives and delegates should be comfortable with Excel.


This program is eligible for 16 Continuing Education credit hours from the CFA Institute. If you are a CFA Institute member, CE credit for your participation in this program will be automatically recorded in your CE Diary.


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Day One

Introduction and Course Outline

Types of Derivatives

  • Futures
  • Forwards
  • Swaps
  • Options (traded, not traded)
  • LTIP arrangements
  • Real or embedded options

Workshop: Payoff diagrams (Excel)

Property Performance Benchmarks

  • Direct vs indirect indices
  • Measurement issues
  • Un/geared property

Current developments

  • US
  • UK
  • Europe
  • Asia

Workshop: Derivative Valuation (Excel)

Day Two

Housing Futures & Options

  • Development history
  • US housing futures
  • UK house indices
  • Swiss house indices and options

Workshop: Derivative Valuation (Excel)

Long-Term Incentive Plans for Property Managers

  • Types of LTIP
  • Performance criteria and rewards
  • Valuing and revaluing plan arrangements

Dangers in Property Derivatives

  • Benchmarking
  • Volatility of appraisal indices
  • "Storage" and "Short-selling" problems
  • Index revisions after derivative settlements

Workshop: Derivative Sensitivites (Excel)

Using and Mis-using Property Derivatives


Note: Course outline is subject to change as this is still a developing topic.

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