Commodities and Commodity Derivatives (Part 3)
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Date: 04-28-2009
Start Time:
3:00pm
End Time: 5:00pm
Speaker: Helyette Geman, Director, Commodity Finance Centre, Birkbeck, University of London & ESCP- EAP
Location: Mudd 303
ABSTRACT
The third part will cover the different ways of investing in commodities, from ETFs and commodity indexes to shares of oil and mining companies, as well as structured notes. The various issues at stake when building a new commodity index - components, weights, roll yield - will be analyzed.