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Training - Financial Enginering

Introduction to Financial Engineering:
5 days


Day One
Introduction And Setting The Scene
• Concept of financial engineering
• Concept of structured notes
• Rationale for structured notes
   - Regulatory arbitrage
   - Customisation
   - Credit enhancement
   - Retail denomination
Corporate Objectives And Swaps Structuring
• Corporate uses and applications
   - Lowering financing costs
   - Hedging price risks
   - Exploiting economies of scale
   - Gaining access to new markets
   - Mergers and acquisitions
• Uses of swaps in the Middle East markets
Architecture And Creation Of Structured Notes
• Structured notes through repackaging vehicles
• Repackaging vehicles
   - Overview
   - Securitised asset swaps
   - Structured note repackaging vehicles
   - Primary market repackaging vehicles

Day Two
Raising Finance And Financial Engineering Principles
• The use of structured finance for obtaining sub-LIBOR funding
• The act of arbitraging and its importance in structuring notes
• Creating financial investments to match investors’ requirements
• The attraction of structured notes, bonds and deposits for investors
Case Studies
Technicalities For Structured Notes
• Analysis of risk factors
• Credit assessment and experience
• The credit risk yield premium - observation and calculation
• Determining expected vs. unexpected losses
• Bootstrapping - the construction of the zero-coupon yield curve
• The construction of the forward yield curve
• Determining hedge ratios
Case Studies
Options Technicalities
• Constructing a delta hedge
• Hedging via options
• Options Greeks and their implications
   - Delta
   - Gamma
   - Theta
   - Vega
   - Rho
• The “carry” trade and how it works
• Dynamic hedging - concept and applications
• Options pricing
   - Black Scholes model
   - Binomial model
   - Ho and Lee model
   - Cox Ross Rubinstein model

Day Three
Interest Rate Linked Notes
• Concept
• Characteristics and price behavior
• Pricing and valuation
• Coupon enhancement techniques
• Applications
• Callable bonds
• Inverse floating-rate notes
• Capped and collared FRNs
• CMT notes
• Index amortising notes
• Swaptions
Case Studies
Complex Interest Rate Swap Structures
• CMT swaps - constant maturity treasury
• Callable and putable swaps
• Circus swaps
• Diff swaps
• Leveraged swaps
• Reversal swaps
• Roller-coaster swaps
• Rate-capped swaps
• Index amortising swaps

Day Four
Equity-Linked Notes
• Issue structures
• Implications for issuers and investors
• Pricing approaches
• Primes and scores
• Liquid Yield Option Notes (LYONS)
• Long Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS)
• Flex options
• Convertible and exchangeable bonds
• Convertible bonds
• Equity-linked deposits
Case Studies
Currency-Linked Structured Notes
• Overview
• Dual-currency notes
• Bull bear structures
• Range accruals
• Applications
Risk Management Of Structured Products And Derivatives
• Anatomy of derivatives’ risks
• Quantification of market and credit risk exposures of derivatives
• Value-at-Risk (VaR)
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Parametric VaR

Day Five
Credit Derivative Structures
• Total return swaps
• Default swaps and options
• Credit spread options
• Put credit spreads on asset swaps
• Basket credit linked notes
• Forward spread note
• Binary credit linked note
Pricing Credit Derivatives
• Merton model
• KMV model
• Duffie Singleton model
• Das Tufano model
• Modeling credit risk

Course Fees
VAT to be included at the local rate, if applicable. Costs shown are per delegate inclusive of refreshments, lunches and seminar materials. Cost of accommodation is not included.
GBP 4500

Certificates of Participation
Certificates of participation are remitted to course participants upon request.
 
 

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