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Here is the model we used last year to dissect the projected price behavior of oil. This was a fundamentals driven model that examined supply and demand gap, future supply sources and shocks, core demand growth drivers and relative value effects. The same approach was used later this year in building our fundamentals driven model for gold price forecast. Our …Read the Rest

Every now and then one tends to see something absolutely amazing. Stuff that you can’t describe in a blog post, work that must be seen with your own eyes. Welcome to Toffeetv.com. Rabia Garib’s (CIO Pakistan) labor of love for desi kids all across the universe. Growing at the rate of one nursery rhyme a day.      

It took two students, over a hundred training engagements in 6 markets and a life working with risk and finance to change my mind. 2007 was a good year in many ways. It was also the year when Abbas Qureshi at SP Jain, Dubai and Adnan Iqbal at Deloitte Consulting, DC asked me the same thing. “Can you please start …Read the Rest

Traffic finally picks up at Finance Training Courses and gets over the pre-Christmas slump levels. It looks as if we will finally break 20,000 page views and about 8,000 visitors again this month in January. Weekly numbers are now running at 1,800 visitors and 5,000 pageviews per week. [To answer Jay’s question, the graph below is a weekly representation (just …Read the Rest

And now for something truly off the beaten track. Exotic Financial Courses run in exotic tropical locations with trainers dressed in even more exotic Batik and Hawaiian shirts. Brought to you by Finance Training Courses The first in this series is the ALM and Liquidity Risk workshop in Subang, Malaysia in January, quickly followed by the ALM for ICAAP and …Read the Rest

I had always wondered about these instant blogging millionaire case studies. Guy meets blog, blog meets Google Adsense, bank account meets dollars and every one lives happily ever after. These happy stories with all the twists and turns of a good mission impossible episode were only supplemented and surpassed by publishing and bestselling author case studies. Guy writes book, book …Read the Rest

Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is an important input in the process used for determining the value of a firm. In our Corporate Finance First Course we visit this concept as well as the concept of Beta which is an essential ingredient in the Cost of Equity calculation part of the WACC equation. In particular the following two sessions …Read the Rest

Apparently everyone who has been reading Learning Corporate Finance is stuck at New York airport waiting for their flights, stuck in the subway for the snow to clear or in transit back to warmth and civilization. And those that didn’t venture out have snuck into their blankets with thick warm book. No one wants to study ALM or Value at …Read the Rest

Ever since I started running risk management training workshops and teaching Executive MBA students, I had been looking for a textbook that walked the middle ground between plain English, as few mathematical equations as possible and exactly the right topics I needed to teach. It had to be concise and to the point yet cover the basics of quantifying risk, …Read the Rest