Protecting Your Income Workshop - NEW

Protecting Your Income is a brand new workshop designed to develop your risk management skills and create security for your income by protecting against adverse currency, interest rate, property and credit risks. During this workshop you will learn how protect yourself and take control of these price movements. Financial derivatives are explored, focusing on futures and options contracts.

This workshop will help you understand the economics of the financial markets and identify the relationship between risk and return and how to implement effective strategies that offer the best return for minimal risk. Once you have acquired this knowledge it can be applied to almost any investment decision whether business or personal.

 Topics covered in this workshop include: 

• Economics of the Financial Markets – Understand capital markets and the economics of financial decision-making

• Credit Risk Management – Minimise exposure to credit risk and implement effective controls

• Production Risk - Manage business production risk and learn effective control measures

• Property Investment Risks - Learn how to manage the risks associated with residential, commercial, industrial and rural properties

• Share Market, Interest Rate, and Currency Risks - Learn how to manage these price movements and understand the associated risks and control measures

• Options - Use options as a hedging instrument

• Futures - Use futures as a hedging instrument

• Futures Exchange - Learn how the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) , Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) operate

• Clearing House Operations -  Understand how clearing houses keep track of transactions and how they operate in the financial market

• Calculating Hedging Levels - Regarded as one of the most important topics, learn how to calculate appropriate hedging levels and implement strategies to reduce your risk

• Ratio Analysis - Understand business ratios to identify business risks

• Taking Hedging Positions – Learn how to protect an existing financial position

Your investment to attend the two-day workshop is $995 (including GST) per person. Each attendee will receive a workshop manual and presentation notes. Daily morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea is provided.

If you advise us by lunch on the first day that you don’t believe this workshop will have a positive impact on your personal finances, your money will be fully refunded.

To view our upcoming seminar schedule please visit www.nifs.net.au/seminar.htm.