Introduction to Commodities

This course gives participants an understanding of the most important commodities markets that feature in Alternative Asset Management including: Oil and gas, agricultural commodities metals and gold.

Suitability

For individuals with a basic understanding of banking and the financial markets

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will understand how such commodities are used in asset management, their contract features and the risks and returns associated with commodity investments

Course Content

Commodity Markets and Sub-Markets
‐ Agriculture
– Metals – iron ore
– Precious Metals – Gold
– Energy – Oil, gas and power
‐ Market correlations & volatility

Exercises: Exploring how banks make money from commodities and pitching trade ideas

Commodity Price Drivers
‐ Risk appetite
‐ Currencies
‐ Supply and demand
‐ Stocks-to-Use & Reserves-to-Production ratio
‐ Hubbert’s Peak theory

Trading Commodities
‐ Physical vs. derivatives
‐ OTC vs. exchange traded
‐ Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs)
‐ Delivery & settlement

Commodity Indices
‐ Baltic Dry Index (BDI) & other Baltic indices
‐ BCOM index
– S&P GSCI index
– CRB index

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of our clients would recommend Alpha to a colleague or peer

90%

of a cohort was promoted within 2 years after participating in an Alpha course.

96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

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We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

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We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

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