Financial Markets and Instruments
Course Feature
Class Description
Course Objective
To create awareness in the development, challenges and risks in the financial markets. It is also intended to enhance their knowledge on the ever-emerging financial instruments.
Course Content
- Overview of financial markets and instruments
- The pricing conventions in the money market
- Characteristics of money market assets
- Theories about pricing
- Securities calculation of yields
- Bond markets-Calculation of Bond Prices, duration and yields
- Equity Markets
- Fx Markets
- Forward Interest rates and Yield curves
- FRAs and interest swaps
- Yield Curve analysis
- Interest rate hedging
- The mechanics of option markets
- Emerging issues and developments in Financial Markets
Target Group
Staff dealing with financial markets instruments both from Central Banks and financial markets players.
Venue
Nairobi