Understanding Indexes

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.

• 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

• 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