Objectives

This course is primarily designed to increase the awareness of the concept of inflation as a separate asset class. It introduces the main concepts related to inflation, the various inflation-linked structures, the different market participants and their respective motivations.


Target Audience

This course is suitable for anyone with an understanding of the fundamental concepts of finance and fixed income. An understanding of bond pricing and market risk (i.e. duration / DV01) is assumed.


Length and Structure of the Course

The course consists of two days of lectures and case studies. Each day typically consists of three or four 90 minute session with coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon and a lunch break in the middle. There is no exam for this course but candidates will get a certificate of attendance.


Course Tutor

Neil Schofield
Neil is a visiting fellow at the University of Reading and is a freelance training consultant. From 2001 to 2008, he was global head of financial markets training at Barclays Capital in London. He was responsible for the design and delivery of a large number of seminars in a variety of different asset classes to many different audiences.  Previous to that he was a director at Chisholm Roth training in London and has also held positions at Chase Manhattan Bank as well as Security Pacific Hoare Govett (now trading as Bank of America). Neil has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. In 2008, he published his first book “Commodity Derivatives” and his second text “Trading the Fixed Income, Inflation and Credit Markets” was published in 2011.  

He is currently co-authoring a book on Inflation entitled “Trading Inflation: Markets, instruments and strategies”, which is due for publication in 2013.