Understanding Indexes
Duration
6
hours
Location
Online
Language
English
Code
FIN-035
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Description
Our training helps the audience understand the key features and use of Indexes. Indexes acts like a benchmark and offer a good approximation of the overall performance of the entire economy, the stock market or a sector.Besides this, indexes become underlying for other financial instruments like: futures, options, equity swaps, ETFs or passive funds. There are a lot of types of indexes: stocks, bonds, commodities, etc. This training also covers the various mathematical methods to calculate an index.
After completing the course, a certificate
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
Objectives
- To help the audience understand the key features of indexes
- To help the audience understand the differences between corporate actions and the impact of these actions on indexes
- To calculate different indexes using different methods
- To simulate what happens when a certain corporate action takes place
Target Audience
Testers, System and Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, and Project Managers working on financial markets projects
Roadmap
- What is an Index
- What is the purpose of indexes
- How to choose the components of indexes
- What are corporate actions and what happens with assets prices at ex-dividend date
- Understanding different stock indexes by method of calculation
- What is a bond index
- What is a commodity index
- What special index we can find in the financial markets