Events
Advanced Training in Commodity Economics & Finance - Pricing Commodity Derivatives
OCP Policy Center, Rabat.
This program focuses on understanding commodities spot prices formation, the fundamental features of Exchanges and Futures markets, the crucial role of liquid indexes, the theory of financial and real options as well as the valuation of physical assets and investing in commodities. A particular attention will be given to Agricultural commodities, land and fertilizers, including from an investment perspective.
Objectives :
• Understanding the articulation of Commodities with the financial markets;
• Learning what can be transmitted from the lessons learnt in the stock market while keeping at all times a focus on Supply/demand and other fundamental economic indicators.
Speakers
Helyette Geman
Senior Fellow
Helyette Geman is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Director of the Commodity Finance Center at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, who focuses on Probability, Commodities and Finance. She was Chairman of the Finance Department at ESSEC Business School from 1988 to 1995, and the Director of Dauphine Master 203 at the University of Paris Dauphine from 1995 to 2005.
Helyette Geman is a Graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Mathematics and holds a PhD in Probability and a PhD in Finance. She worked as a scientific expert for EDF Trading, Louis Dreyfus, BMP Billiton, Bunge Invivo and financial institutions. Her book “Commodities and Commodity Derivatives” published in 2005 by Wiley Finance has become th ...
