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Commodities Master Class - Ken Abbott - November 16 - Baruch MFE

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Commodities Master Class

Ken Abbott, Morgan Stanley

Baruch MFE Program

Saturday, November 16, 2013



The Baruch MFE Program is pleased to offer a one-day Master Class on Commodities taught by Ken Abbott, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Firm Risk Management, Morgan Stanley, on Saturday, May November 16, 2013.

This Master Class will provide attendees with an introduction to commodities markets and commodities trading with an emphasis on energy. There will be a particular focus on the impact of recent legislation on banks.

Seating is limited to 75 participants.

Program:

Oil Liquids
  • Formation of oil
  • Basics of exploration
  • Basics of oil refining
    • Fractional distillation
    • Refinery types
    • Petrochemicals
  • Transportation
    • Pipelines
    • Tankers
  • Oil consumption trends
Natural gas
  • Extraction
  • Transportation
  • NG Markets
Power
  • The basics of power generation
  • The basics of power transmission
  • The role of Reliable Transmission Organizations (RTOs)
  • The basics of Locational Marginal Price (LMP).
  • Power markets and products
Metals
  • Precious vs base
  • Extraction
  • Markets
Agriculturals

Key analytical concepts
  • Backwardation and Contango
  • Storage
  • Production optionality
  • Seasonality
  • Mean reversion
  • Correlation structure
Environmental Issues


Instructor

Ken Abbott is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in New York, where he is the Chief Operating Officer for Firm Risk Management. In addition, he also supervises legal entity risk management for Morgan Stanley and is the senior risk officer covering the buy side. Previously, he ran market risk management for Bank of America’s Investment Bank. He has over 30 years banking experience, including 14 years at Bankers Trust as an analyst, trader, and risk manager. Ken has a BA from Harvard in Economics, an MA from NYU in Economics and an MS from NYU/Stern in Statistics and Operations Research. He sits on the GARP Board of Directors.

Ken is very generously volunteering his time and will not charge any fees for teaching the Master Class. Instead, one half of all tuition proceeds will be donated to the New Jersey Scholars Program on behalf of Ken Abbott.


Audience

Finance professionals, academics, and students interested in gaining a high level introduction to commodities and commodities markets.

Attendees will deepen their knowledge of the extraction, processing, transportation, and trading of key commodities, how commodities markets has evolved over time, and how recent regulatory changes may affect the commodities markets going forward.


Schedule

Saturday, November 16

9:00-9:30am Registration and light breakfast; coffee and tea available throughout the day

9:30am-12:30pm Morning Session

12:30-2:00pm Lunch Break (lunch not provided)

2:00-5:00pm Afternoon Session

Location: 55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street), Room 3-165, Newman Vertical Campus, Baruch College



Registration

Seating is limited to 75 participants.

Practitioner: $395 (includes a $200 tax-deductible donation to the New Jersey Scholars Program)

Student/Academic: $195 (includes a $100 tax-deductible donation to the New Jersey Scholars Program)

Pre-register at http://tinyurl.com/7g6m5ku

Within two business days of pre-registering, an email with information on how to complete the registration, including information about processing the tax-deductible donation, will be sent from baruch.mfe@baruch.cuny.edu

Contact and further information: baruch.mfe@baruch.cuny.edu
 
The Master Class on Commodities has been approved for GARP Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. Baruch College has determined that this program qualifies for 6 GARP CPE credit hours. If you are a Certified FRM or ERP, please contact baruch.mfe@baruch.cuny.edu for more information.
 
Thanks for coming, everyone. I'll be sending the .pdfs out to you via email. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed teaching it. As always, feel free to contact me with questions, either about the class or about the industry in general.

And thanks for helping me support The NJ Scholars Program.
 
Hello Ken, is there a way ppl like me who didn't attended this class...can access them ??

thanks.
 
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