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Adapting to the New Volatility Regime
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This course is IBF/STS Approved
You will be able to attend this course for either the morning or afternoon session, dependent on your requirements.
Afternoon (2pm - 6pm)
Please do make your selection clear when booking.
Learning Outcome
By the end of this half-day course, participants will be able to:- Learn about the meaning of volatility, in both theoretical and practical market terms
- Gain a deeper understanding of the 2018 re-awakening of volatility and how it has reshaped a new market regime and investor psychology
- Benefits from latest market timing and risk management strategies
- Re-position a value offering with client relations and portfolio performance
Who Should Attend?
Relationship Managers, Private Bankers, Wealth Managers, Client Advisors and other Client Facing Bank Personnel
Course Duration- Three hours + one hour assessment
IBF-STS
This programme has been accredited under the IBF Standards, and is eligible for funding under the IBF Standards Training Scheme (IBF-STS), subject to all eligibility criteria being met. Candidates are advised to assess the suitability of the programme and its relevance to participants’ business activities or job roles. IBF-STS provides 70% funding for direct training costs subject to a cap of S$7,000 per candidate per programme subject to all eligibility criteria being met. Find out more on www.ibf.org.sg
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Course Agenda
Session 1
What is volatility and how does it impact your functional roles – around 1 hour
Probability curves, Sigma & Fat-tail risk
2018 volatility re-awakening and the new “crisis alpha” paradigm
Applying the VUCA model to client relations
• Volatility - Fast, unpredictable changes, without clear patterns or trends
• Uncertainty - Frequent, disruptive changes, marked by non-linear action
• Complexity - Multiple, Technology, Society, Geopolitical
• Ambiguity - Little clarity on what is real or true
Session 2
Improving performance using market timing and risk management – around 1 hour
Behavioural Technical Analysis
• Crowd psychology
• The cycle of emotions
• Cognitive biases
Market Timing
• Dynamic market states
• Trend-following vs. mean-reversion
• Using basic indicator strategies
Risk Management
• A world of managed risk-returns
• Scenario planning & mistake analysis
• Risk strategies, including trailing stops, diversification and hedging
Session 3
Interactive role-play and case-study work – around 1 hour
Re-positioning a value proposition with clients and their portfolio management
Volatility related risks and how to overcome behavioural mistakes
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Our Tailored Learning Offering
Do you have five or more people interested in attending this course? Do you want to tailor it to meet your company’s exact requirements? If you’d like to do either of these, we can bring this course to your company’s office. You could even save up to 50% on the cost of sending delegates to a public course and dramatically increase your ROI.
If you want to run this course at a location convenient to you or if you want a completely customised learning solution, we can help.
We produce learning solutions that are completely unique to your business. We’ll guide you through the whole process, from the initial consultancy to evaluating the success of the full learning experience. Our learning specialists ensure you get the maximum return on your training investment.
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We have a combined experience of over 60 years providing learning solutions to the world’s major organisations and are privileged to have contributed to their success. We view our clients as partners and focus on understanding the needs of each organisation we work with to tailor learning solutions to specific requirements.
We are proud of our record of customer satisfaction. Here is why you should choose us to help you achieve your goals and accelerate your career:
- Quality – our clients consistently rate our performance ‘excellent’ or ‘outstanding’. Our average overall score awarded to us by our clients is nine out of ten.
- Track record – we have delivered training solutions for 95% of worlds’ top 100 banks and have trained over 250,000 professionals.
- Knowledge – our 150 strong team of industry specialist trainers are world leading financial leaders and commentators, ensuring our knowledge base is second to none.
- Reliability – if we promise it, we deliver it. We have delivered over 20,000 events both in person and online, using simultaneous translation to delegates from over 180 countries.
- Recognition – we are accredited by the British Accreditation Council and the CPD Certification Service. In an independent review by Feefo we scored 96% on service and 95% on product
Instructor
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Ron William
Biography
Ron is a market strategist, educator/mentor and trader/investor; with 20-years of experience, working for leading economic research & institutional firms; producing macro research & trading strategies. He specializes in blended, top-down, semi-discretionary analysis, driven by cycles and proprietary timing models. Ron is also a behavioural finance/trading psychologist & mentor using latest techniques in peak-performance, neuroscience and mindfulness. A keen student of leaders in the field, he follows the great works of key financial market & master practitioners. Ron's primary work, as part of his current institutional market advisory firm (RWA), acquired global industry recognition with multiple Finalist Award for "Best Specialist Research/& FX". His market insights are also featured regularly across notable industry publications and financial media programs; featuring Bitcoin-Digital Asset Paradigm, 2018 Flash-Crash & Bond yield spike risk.Grounded with his practical market experience, Ron specialized as a Chartered Financial Technician (CFTe), the gold standard benchmark in the study of behavioural finance, market timing and risk management.