Course Summary

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DURATION 3 days 4 days 5-days
LOCATION London & Singapore Singapore London
CORE COMMODITY CONCEPTS 3 days 4 days 5-days
Introduction to Commodities ● ● ●
The Interaction between Physical and Paper Markets ● ●
Financial markets for Commodities ● ● ●
COMMODITY TYPES 3 days 4 days 5-days
Precious Metals
(gold, silver, platinum, palladium)		 ● ● ●
Base Metals
(copper, aluminium, nickel, lead, zinc, tin)		 ● ● ●
Energy
(crude oil, distillates, gasoline, gasoil, fuel oil)		 ● ● ●
Natural gas ● ● ●
Coal
(thermal and coking coal)		 ● ● ●
Electricity ●
Carbon/emissions ● ●
Agricultural and soft commodities
(corn, wheat, soybeans, palm oil, coffee, sugar, cotton, cocoa)		 ● ● ●
Freight
(wet and dry freight)		 ● ●
Steel ● ● ●
Iron ore ● ● ●
MANAGING COMMODITY EXPOSURE 3 days 4 days 5-days
Principles of Commodity Price Management ●
Using Commodity Derivatives ● ● ●
Taking a Discretionary Exposure (Investment) ● ● ●
FINANCING STRUCTURES 3 days 4 days 5-days
Financing Producers ● ● ●
Export and Trade Finance ● ● ●
WORKSHOPS AND CASE STUDIES 3 days 4 days 5-days
Combining a hedge with a physical purchases ● ●
Trading strategies with commodity futures and options ● ● ●
Looking at regional pricing differences ● ● ●
Sample physical contracts ●
Hedging agricultural commodities ●
Dealing with basis risk ● ●
What is a “swap” in precious metals markets? ● ●
Using futures and swaps to hedge price risks in physical contracts ● ●
Unpicking an energy consumer’s hedging strategy ● ● ●
Issuing commodity linked notes ● ●
Evaluating loan and hedging alternatives for a producer ●
Combining a hedge with trade finance ● ● ●
VISIT TO THE LONDON METAL EXCHANGE ●
GUEST SPEAKER ●