ADVISORY/ISDA: Demystifying Derivatives Seminar for Journalists.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday Wednesday: see week. (March 3) --(BUSINESS WIRE) The International Swaps and Derivatives Association The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is a trade organization of participants in the market for over-the-counter derivatives. It is headquartered in New York, and has created a standardized contract (the ISDA Master Agreement) to enter invites journalists to attend its free seminar, Demystifying Derivatives derivatives In finance, contracts whose value is derived from another asset, which can include stocks, bonds, currencies, interest rates, commodities, and related indexes. Purchasers of derivatives are essentially wagering on the future performance of that asset. , in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Wednesday, March 3, 2004. Offered exclusively to members of the media, the seminar will explore basic and intermediate-level topics related to derivatives and financial risk management. The seminar will include a roundtable Q&A session with leading market practitioners, including ISDA ISDA See: International Swap Dealers Association board members. Please note that all the day's events are off the record.
WHAT: DEMYSTIFYING DERIVATIVES SEMINAR FOR JOURNALISTS
The seminar will feature the following discussion topics:
-- Derivatives Products: An overview of various derivatives
instruments: interest rate, currency, credit and commodity
derivatives.
-- Applications of Derivatives: How financial institutions,
corporations, municipalities and investors use derivatives
to manage risk.
WHO: Dr. David Mengle, Head of Research, ISDA, and Associate
Professor of Economics and Finance, Adjunct Faculty, Fordham
University Graduate School of Business, will lead the
course.
ISDA Executive Director and CEO Robert Pickel will join
leading market practitioners, including ISDA Board members,
in an informal Q&A session following the lecture.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Breakfast: 8:30 AM
Seminar: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Q&A: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Luncheon: 12:00 PM
WHERE: International Swaps and Derivatives Association
360 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Members of the media planning on attending this invitation-only event, please RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. to: Jennifer Jennifer became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century. The name Jennifer is a Cornish variant of Guinevere, deriving ultimately from Proto-Celtic *windo-seibaro- "white ghost", via Brythonic *wino-hibirā (cf. Iannibelli, Kennedy & Company, 914/961-2436 or jennifer@kennedycom.com. Please note that space is limited, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. |
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