The Baltic Exchange is running a series of shipping courses this June and July in Singapore.

Counterparty Risk Management for Shipping
Thursday 13 June 2019 | SGX Centre 1, Singapore

Indexation and the creative use of the Baltic Indices in Risk Management for Shipping
Friday 14 June | SGX Centre 1, Singapore

Freight Derivatives & Shipping Risk Management
1-2 July | SGX Centre 1, Singapore

Advanced Freight Modelling and Trading
3-4 July | SGX Centre 1, Singapore

Counterparty Risk Management for Shipping
This course is ideal for executives dealing with counterparty evaluations, treasury, operations, chartering, company finance and those responsible for managing counterparty credit risk.
 
On the day, you will learn :

  • Where does credit risk come from, the origination of risk, credit assessment and how to measure the value of your exposures.
  • Understand and measure the real-time value of credit risk including how to work with Probabilities of Default, Loss Given Default, Potential Future Exposures and how to use Baltic Indices to apply Credit Variance Assessments.
  • How to build an actual credit risk portfolio and how to monitor ongoing credit risk. This puts risk in perspective and helps you apply Baltic forward data to your risk exposures.
  • How to mitigate risk exposures: simple and effective methods for minimizing, mitigating and dealing with credit risk in today’s challenging markets.

Indexation and the creative use of the Baltic Indices in Risk Management for Shipping
This course is suited to shipping executives and shipbrokers working with timecharters, COAs, period charters, cargo programmes and fleet employment.

  • How the Baltic Indices are created, what they represent and what they can be used for.
  • How to creatively benchmark different vessel designs and types against Baltic Indices and adjust the Baltic Indices using time charter and voyage charter metrics, across capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize sectors.
  • How to build new and creative forward curves for specific routes and how to create ‘hybrid’ routes using Baltic Indices
  • How to use benchmark-adjusted Baltic Indices, new forward curves and hybrid routes to create opportunities in FFA hedging and trading as well as the development of index-linked business.

For more information, or to register, email academy@balticexchange.com or call Mark Ma on +65 8575 1588

Freight Derivatives & Shipping Risk Management 

Delivered over two days by Professor Nikos Nomikos and Professor Amir Alizadeh, the Shipping Risk Management course aims to raise market awareness of risks involved in shipping businesses and how various physical and derivatives instruments can be used to control such risks efficiently and effectively. Participants will learn how to analyse and measure the impact of financial risks involved in shipping investment and operations, and how to select and execute effective strategies to minimise or eliminate such risks, stabilise their cash flow and maximise the return on investment more efficiently.

For more details or to register your attendance, click here, or alternatively contact Bill Lines.

Advanced Freight Modelling and Trading

Led by Professor Nikos Nomikos and Professor Amir Alizadeh, lecturers at the Centre for Shipping, Trade & Finance at London’s Cass Business School, this advanced two day module focuses on modelling freight rate dynamics and pricing options on freight. It discusses issues which are relevant to shipping market practitioners such as constructing forward curves on freight, modelling freight rate volatility as well as hedging and trading strategies using freight options. The course aims to provide delegates with both a theoretical foundation as well as practical hands-on experience.

For more details or to register your attendance, click here, or alternatively contact Bill Lines.