What You'll Learn
- Commodities basics: The definition and classification of commodities, including hard and soft commodities.
- Market structure: How global commodity markets function and how spot and futures markets differ.
- Financial institutions: How banks and financial institutions engage with commodity markets.
- Major Commodities Exchanges, location, speciaalizations etc
- Derivatives: How futures contracts, options, and swaps are used in commodity markets.
- Commodity indices: The role of indices such as the GSCI and Bloomberg Commodity Index.
- Trade finance: Commodity trade finance and pre-export financing structures.
- Producer hedging How producers hedge price risk using derivatives.
- Risk awareness: The risks of commodity investing, including volatility, geopolitics, and weather.
- Portfolio use: How commodities can support diversification and act as an inflation hedge.
- Resource economics: The resource curse and lessons from commodity-dependent economies.
- ESG and supply chains: ESG considerations in commodity supply chains and sourcing decisions.
- Public wealth management: Norway's sovereign wealth fund as a model of responsible resource management.
- Energy transition metals: Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and copper driving the energy transition.
- How retail and institutional investors access commodity markets.
- Electronics materials: Semiconductor and electronics materials including silicon, gallium, and indium.
- Infrastructure finance: Project finance structures for commodity infrastructure.
- Investment products: Commodity ETFs, structured notes, and commodity-linked bonds.
Requirements
- No prior knowledge required
- A computer with internet access
- Eagerness to learn
Who This Course is For
- Anyone interested in understanding Commodities
- Supply chain managers
- Procurement officers
- Energy sector professionals
- Mining & resources executives
- Agricultural business managers
- Investment bankers
- Corporate finance analysts
- Trade finance officers
- Commodity traders
- Risk managers
- Risk Officers
- Family Office Professionals
- Structured finance professionals
- Asset managers
- Hedge fund analysts
- Private equity associates
- Treasury professionals
- Central bank economists
- ESG & sustainability analysts
- Financial journalists & researchers
- Management consultants advising commodity-exposed clients
- Finance & economics undergraduates
- MBA students
- CFA candidates
- Graduate scheme applicants
- Postgraduate economics students
- Economic Students
- Student interested in understanding how commodities work
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