Financial Markets Instruments and Central Bank
Overview
The ATI Financial Market Analysis (FMA) course is focused on how financial securities and assets are analysed, used and traded by different market participants for different applications and organisations. It develops delegates understanding of different asset portfolio (including foreign exchange, commodities, stocks, and derivatives), analytical approaches, methodologies, risk management strategies and psychology.
FMA enhances and develops participants practical investment skills through gaining technical knowledge of a diversity of markets’ and the various participants, activities and instruments, as well as the legislation and regulatory bodies that govern the sector, gives the ability to understand and interpret information from these financial markets, and make informed investment decisions
Target Audience
This course is aimed at a wide range of professional functions.
The corporate finance areas.
Individuals who would benefit from an understanding of financial markets.
Participants.
Products.
How they interact together. Candidates interested in the financial services.
Investment industries.
The stock markets.
Bankers.
Analyst.
Professionals wanting to transition into one of the industries.
A financial brokers wanting to broaden deeper knowledge.
Or looking to manage investment portfolio.
Course Outcome
• Explain the economic rationale for various financial instruments and markets.
• Identify and use the building blocks presented in the course to construct financial instruments.
• Use basic pricing models to identify possible mispricing and misuse of financial instruments.
• Identify threats to financial stability in markets and instruments, based on case studies of previous financial crises.
• Extract lessons from previous financial stability threats to try to prevent their recurrence.
• Develop a critical understanding of different asset classes analysis and used as financial instruments by different market participants.
• Critically analyse and evaluate the role of risk management, performance analysis, and trading and portfolio management strategies.
• Understand that monetary and financial categories work together to ensure that the market participant is able to guarantee financial decisions are based on solid strategic foundations, together with risk analysis.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the importance of investor and trader psychology, and the emotional pressures which affect high pressure financial decision making.
• Reflect and synthesize the various financial decision making and risk management models in the financial markets.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the legal rules on insider trading, together with an understanding of the underlying policy considerations;
• Show in-depth knowledge of the legal rules on market manipulation, together with an understanding of the underlying policy considerations and global trends.