FOCUSING ON:
• Nature Of The Instrument
• Circumstances For Using Options
• Option Strategies And Their Motivations
• Pricing Dynamics
• Option Valuation Models And Their Underlying Assumptions
• Inherent Risks
• Significance Of The “Greeks”

METHODOLOGY
Interactive style lecture reinforced with illustrative real and hypothetical cases
and quizzes

WHO WILL BENEFIT
Anyone who is either directly or indirectly involved in options in their varied forms, from structured warrants to employee share options scheme to underwriting of debt and equity instruments. Relevant personnel include Directors, Dealers, Risk Managers, Internal Auditors, Lawyers, Treasury Back Office Staff and Accountants. 

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded upon successful completion of each course. This serves as evidence of your personal and professional commitment to you career.


Dear Participants,

Among the class of instruments called derivatives, it is acknowledged that options
are the most sophisticated of them all.

Players in the field of options, the dealers, the recorders, the approvers, the lawyers etc are sometimes guilty of being equipped with merely aspects or a superficial knowledge of the instrument. It goes against the basic doctrine of investment guru Warrant Buffet,
who often emphasized that one should never dabble in any ill-understood instrument.

This workshop covers the often over-looked theoretical foundations of options. It is an interactive workshop, reinforced with illustrative real and hypothetical cases and quizzes to drive home the fundamental concepts.
 
It is designed for the busy director and executive who have to deal either directly or indirectly with options in their varied forms but cannot afford the time to plod through numerous books, ponder, brainstorm and debate about options.

I look forward to your participation.


Yours sincerely,
Yogaretnam


COURSE FACILITATOR

Yogaretnam brings with him more than 16 years of banking experience. He served 8 years with Bank Negara and the rest with a large merchant bank as the manager of its Risk Management Department. He started-off as an auditor with Ernst & Whinney. His experience ranges from accounting to auditing to regulation to risk management.

He has given talks and conducted training for bankers, stockbrokers, regulators, consultants and Government Auditors in the areas of Capital Markets, Risk Management, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Accounting. Among the organizations which have engaged Yogaretnam as a speaker are Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Institute of Banks in Malaysia, Employees Provident Fund and Permodalan Nasional Berhad.

Yogaretnam is registered as a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He earned his professional degree from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). In 2002, he earned a distinction and was a prizewinner in the dealers’ examinations set by the Financial Markets Association of Malaysia. In 2003, he passed the benchmark examination for risk management world-wide, set by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

His last appointment was in a consultancy project with the Malaysian Ministry of Finance wherein he developed a financial management manual for statutory bodies and is currently engaged on an advisory basis.