Course Summary

Value-at-Risk is the new benchmark for measuring and controlling market risk. Premier trading and marketing companies around the world use Value-at-Risk to maximize profit opportunities and minimize costly positioning mistakes. This one day programme teaches the important aspects of this risk management tool.

8 CPE credits awarded for this course.

Delivery Method: Group-Live

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is ideal for those who need to become familiar with Value-at-Risk. Traders, support staff, risk managers, senior management (anyone who needs to understand and interact with position and risk management) will benefit from this workshop. The information presented in this programme is applicable to any energy commodity.

Prerequisites

Princeton Energy Programme’s Fundamentals of Energy Futures, Options I - Fundamentals of Energy Options, and Energy Risk Management or equivalent experience.

Includes Web-based Pre-study Module

This course is accompanied by a preparatory course available online. Delegates will receive a web voucher as part of their joining instructions upon confirmation of registration. By taking advantage of this 'blended' learning approach, in-class time and learning are optimized.

Course Contents

• Types of risk
• Causes of financial risk
• Definition of Value-at-Risk
• History of Value-at-Risk
• Computing Value-at-Risk
• Converting Value-at-Risk parameters
• Using Value-at-Risk to establish trading limits
• Using Value-at-Risk to measure trading performance
• Calculating risk across a portfolio
• The three approaches for calculating Value-at-Risk
• Using implied volatility in Value-at-Risk
• Verifying Value-at-Risk
• Limitations and pitfalls of Value-at-Risk

The following course(s) are available..

Date / No of days	Location	Fee: Course only	Fee: + accommodation	Code
24 March 2010 (1)	Houston, TX	USD$1100	- n/a -	#VAR032410
26 May 2010 (1)	Calgary, AB	USD$1100 +5% GST	- n/a -	#VAR052610
14 September 2010 (1)	London, UK	GBP£840 + 17.5% VAT	- n/a -	VAR\BGBR10