This free webinar, courtesy of IC Markets, focuses on practical and crucial Risk Management aspects to consider from a front office point of view. You will learn what are the important aspects to look for when actively trading in financial markets, including insights on fundamental and technical outlook on all major markets (for indices, FOREX, commodities and others […]
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FREE COURSE: Financial Markets
This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge in Financial Markets. It’s a FREE course created by Yale University and starts on Jan 23. A summary of the course content and syllabus is explained below. Course Syllabus Week 1: Basic Principles of Finance and Risk Management (5 videos, 1 reading) Reading: Optional […]
Six Potential Risks for Investors in 2017
Investment Banks analysts anticipate that financial markets will be affected in 2017 by three main events: Donald Trump’s performance as US President, which for most, is a big uncertainty; the first round of the 2017 French presidential election, held on 23 April 2017; and the next German federal elections, which will elect the members of the Bundestag, […]
VIDEO: Credit Risk Assessment and Management
This article includes a series of videos from Prof. Joseph M. Pimbley, PhD in Theoretical Physics and Principal of Maxwell Consulting, a firm he founded in 2010. Prof. Joseph M. Pimbley participates actively in several industry forums and is board member of different institutions, having had several Wall Street roles in the past, including positions […]
EBOOK: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Taking a chance in financial markets implies potential big risks and this is not for everyone. The risk/reward might be high and even if you have every possible rational for a trade well thought, discussed, supported with solid fundamentals and technical analysis, even so, things might go wrong and you might suffer big losses. This bitter reality is many […]
Understanding Carbon Emission Risk when Allocating Assets
In 2013 I was invited to write about the closure of Chinese Harbin Airport due to poor air quality (in other words “smog”). This article became the second most read entry at globalairportcities.com blog for FY2013 and generated a lot of interesting discussion and positive feedback. Three years have passed, and besides the United Nation […]
10 Essential Risk Management Videos – Part 2
In part 1 of this article I’ve included a series of relevant Risk Management videos, covering conceptual topics around investing with derivatives securities such as Forwards, Futures, Hedging, Hedging with Futures, Put/Call Options, etc. This article covers additional videos focusing on Risk and Reward concepts such as Systematic Risk (not to be confused with Systemic Risk), Total Risk, Portfolio Risk […]
10 Essential Risk Management Videos – Part 1
This article includes a series of Risk Management videos, covering several topics which are relevant specially for Market Risk professionals. The videos included cover the following topics (click on the different topics below to access directly the embedded video). Forwards Futures Hedging Hedging with Futures Put options Call options Put-Call Parity Combining Payoffs Payoffs Total […]