June 2025

An Introduction to Hedge Funds Course Overview The (relatively small) Hedge Fund community has the dubious honour of attracting disproportionately high levels of publicity in the Financial press.This can partly be explained by an ongoing lack of understanding of what the Managers are actually doing on behalf of their investors. Some Managers use Derivatives, some do not; some […]

An Introduction to the Foreign Exchange Markets Course Overview Foreign Exchange is a global decentralized Over-the-Counter (OTC) Market which is the deepest & most liquid of any Market today, across all Asset Classes. While anyone can – & does – participate, what matters is are you a price taker or a price maker? Are you participating to facilitate

An Introduction to the Derivatives Markets Course Overview Barings, Societe Generale, AIG, JP Morgan…venerable Financial Institutions damaged, some to the point of bankruptcy, by unauthorized Derivatives trading activity. In each case it was not Trader inexperience that was the problem, but supervision & Risk Management. Theseshort programs, designed for those who are new to finance and

Analysing, Understanding, and Investing in Quoted Property Companies and REITs Course Overview In the UK, the listed property sector normally represents less than 2% of the total market and that isone reason why many investors do not allocate too many resources to identify opportunities in thatpart of the market.The other main reason is that the

Alternative Investments Course Overview Investors are increasingly looking for ‘Alternative’ ideas beyond the conventional Bond &Equity universe. There has never been a formalized definition of whatexactly constitutes an ‘Alternative’ Investment & consequently the list of possibilities canseem long when thinking about the potential from either an Institutional or Private Investorperspective. Some have relatively high costs