Masterclass School Series

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The IFF Schools Masterclass programmes are a series of unique training forums designed to equip today’s financial professionals with the critical skills needed to compete effectively in the rapidly changing marketplace:

IFF School of Corporate Finance,
IFF School of Corporate Credit,
IFF School of Operations,
IFF School of Derivatives,
IFF School of Risk Management,
IFF School of Bonds & Fixed Income,
IFF School of International Capital Markets,
IFF School of Project Finance,
IFF School of Hedge Funds,
IFF School of Treasury Products and Risk Management,
IFF School of Private Equity,
IFF School of Investment Management,
IFF School of Mergers & Acquisitions,
IFF School of Energy.

These programmes represent a new paradigm in financial education and have been painstakingly designed after extensive consultation with practitioners from all over the globe. Put simply, these events will have a huge impact on your practical skills and understanding. No other learning format comes close to matching the benefits derived from an IFF school. To find out what our past delegates thought, please click here.

Here’s what you can expect when you attend a typical IFF School:

Intensive practical training from some of the world’s leading experts in each field.
Course programme carefully structured to make sure there is a perfect synergy between theoretical knowledge and practical market focused applications.
The residential format allows you to focus on immersing yourself in the topic area without the usual day to day distractions.
The School programmes attract delegates from major financial institutions from all over the world – a great opportunity to network and learn from your peers.
Cutting edge case-studies and up to the minute examples underpin every aspect of the programme.
The content in focused on real-world applications and our goal is to make sure the transition from theory into practice is smooth and efficient.
Massive cost savings – our schools are entirely residential (the fee includes all accommodation and meals etc).

The IFF Schools Masterclass programmes are held at Wotton House, an outstanding venue located in the heart of leafy Surrey, near Dorking, south of London. Wotton House is the perfect venue, providing both a study-focused and a relaxing environment. It offers luxury accommodation, fine food accommodating any dietary requirement and excellent leisure facilities both indoors (indoor swimming pool, spa pool and sauna plus a well-equipped gymnasium) and outdoors (tennis and jogging trails). To find out more information about Wotton House, please click here. To view some photos of this exquisite venue, please click here. To view a video of our superb venue, click here

Other Course Sectors

Available Courses:

School Of Bonds & Fixed Income
School Of Corporate Finance
School Of Derivatives
School of Energy
School Of Hedge Funds
School Of International Capital Markets
School Of Project Finance
School Of Risk Management
School of Treasury Products and Risk Management
The IFF School of Investment Management
The IFF School of Operations
The IFF School of Private Equity

School Of Bonds & Fixed Income - More Details

An essential training course for all bond and fixed income professionals. Developed over time to become the programme of choice for anyone looking to enhance their practical knowledge of bonds and fixed income trading.

What you will learn by attending this programme:

Master practical bonds pricing techniques
Get to grips with bond mathematics
Understand bond sensitivities to ensure effective investment and trading decisions
Learn how futures, options and swaps can be used as hedging and trading technique in the bond market
Get to grips with repos and reverses and learn how to price them
Learn how to use strips to exploit arbitrage opportunities
Use the term structure of interest rates to effectively price bonds and swaps
Discover new insights into liability swaps, asset swaps and their relationship to the bond markets
Understand the debt origination process

School Of Corporate Finance - More Details

The School of Corporate Finance is a unique figure in the world of corporate finance training. Designed to be a total immersion course that focuses on the complete spectrum of corporate finance transactions. The course is a state-of-the-art guide to modern corporate finance best practice.

Five reasons why you MUST attend this course:

The residential nature of this programme allows the inclusion of case studies with a deeper level of appreciation and understanding
This programme will bridge the gap between theory and market practice, providing recommendations of how the techniques should be applied in different decision-making contexts
The course looks at transactions from the viewpoint of the company itself, debt financiers, and shareholders – and highlights the negotiation and commercial issues that arise from the differences in perspective
In addition to the comprehensive course materials, each participant leaves the course with a CD-ROM loaded with excel files and additional reading material on a wide range of corporate financing topics
It will be tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose

School Of Derivatives - More Details

This intensive course is designed primarily to provide detailed insights into the principles, methods and mathematical tools for understanding the analytics of derivatives structuring, use, valuation, control, and risk management. The emphasis is on better understanding of the intuition behind the analytics employed, and not the complex mathematics per se.

This unique residential course:

Provides a unifying framework for understanding the two most influential analytical tools underpinning derivatives market valuation and products

model-free swaps (forwards)
model-dependent options

Will be taught in a series of connected modules that focus on applicable techniques, whilst remaining analytically and mathematically rigorous and in an accessible manner
Emphasises the economic intuition behind the key theoretical concepts, apparatus and vocabulary of derivatives

Distils the subtleties and essence of derivatives use and valuation tools, bridging the gap between theory and practice

Uses numerous worked examples set in a real-life context using actual historical market prices
Demystifies difficult concepts illustrated throughout with concrete examples and worked through by extensive modelling using Excel spreadsheet applications

School of Energy - More Details

The most comprehensive energy training programme currently available. Over five intensive days you will explore every aspect of the global energy markets and the products and issues that drive them.

Five reasons why you must attend this course:

The programme focuses on the key practical trading and risk issues in all the major energy markets
The practical focus of the course will expose you to the complex risks in the sector via our simulation sessions and equip you with cutting-edge tools to deal with them in the real world
Our faculty of internationally recognised experts are unrivalled in the training world. You are guaranteed to be learning from some of the finest minds in the business
The residential nature of the programme means that these hand-picked individuals will be able to work with you closely to ensure your practical knowledge grows substantially over the five intensive days
There is no other programme like it, you will benefit from 18 cutting-edge case-studies enabling you to apply what you have learned to any scenario

School Of Hedge Funds - More Details

The ultimate course in our hedge fund portfolio of events. The course is delivered on a residential basis to facilitate focused learning without distraction. The course aims to take your practical skills to new heights as a result of working 1-to-1 with our trainers with over 15 years' experience in the hedge fund industry. If you are looking for hedge funds training, this is the course that will make a difference!

A 5-day residential programme designed to optimise your skills and increase your effectiveness within all aspects of hedge funds. The course covers:

Rationale for Hedge Funds Uses
The Characteristics of Hedge Funds against Traditional Investment Funds
Operational and Organisational Structures
Various Strategies Followed by Hedge Funds in the US and Europe
Risk Management for Hedge Funds
The Hedge Fund Indices Available
Understanding the Mechanics of Hedge Fund Performance
Practical Hedge Fund Investment Techniques
Getting to Grips with New Investment Vehicles
Asset Allocation Strategies
How to Select a Hedge Fund
The Legal Framework Surrounding Hedge Funds in the US and other Countries
Funds of Funds and Meta-Diversification
Understanding Capital Guaranteed Products

School Of International Capital Markets - More Details
Designed to help professionals develop a detailed practical understanding of the global capital markets and the products that drive them.
Five reasons why you must attend this course: It has been specially designed by an industry expert enabling you understand the drivers, mechanics and techniques essential for success in today’s volatile international marketplace You will benefit from in-depth marketfocused tuition designed to optimise your skills and increase your effectiveness within all aspects of the international capital markets The residential nature of the course enables you to be completely immersed in this subject You will get more detail incorporated here than on any other capital markets course, highlighting structural techniques and mistakes previously made It is tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose with a particular emphasis on practical applications

School Of Project Finance - More Details
The flagship programme in our project finance training porfolio. This highly intensive, residential course has been designed to provide today's project finance professionals with the skills and knowledge to reach the pinnacle of modern project financing. By utilising a practical case study approach to project finance training, the course helps bridge the gap between theory and practice with excellent results.
Five reasons why you must attend this course: You will get more detailed case studies incorporated here than on any other Project Finance course, highlighting structural techniques and mistakes previously made It is tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose The five-day residential element allows thorough treatment of project risk structuring, financing structuring, cash flow modelling and legal issues, without compromise You will leave the course with a CD-ROM loaded with excel files and additional reading material on a wide range of project financing topics No other course looks at the viewpoint of debt financiers, corporate sponsors, and government concessiongranting agencies – highlighting the negotiation and commercial issues that arise from the differences in perspective and objective.

School Of Risk Management - More Details
In the current climate there's no subject with more impact than that of risk. The IFF School of Risk Management course sets new benchmarks for risk management education. Taught by a globally recognised team of experts and structured to focus on all the major risk types, this is the only course risk professionals will ever need.
Five reasons why you must attend this course: You will get to grips with the practicalities of cutting-edge risk management methodologies The residential structure allows the inclusion of highly focused case-studies with a deep emphasis on practical applications It is the only programme of its kind, providing a comprehensive coverage of the tools, techniques and strategies used within market, credit and operational risk Taught by the world’s leading risk management experts, it will provide you with the chance to learn from some of the best minds in the business It will provide you with the perfect synergy between theory and real-world application, ensuring you make the transition from theory to practice, with outstanding success

School of Treasury Products and Risk Management - More Details
A masterclass in understanding treasury markets and products. Designed with practitioners in mind, the course looks at the spectrum of treasury products and will teach you how to utilise them in a trading, hedging and risk management context.
Attend this highly practical residential course and you will: Learn how treasuries function in banks and corporations Gain an insight into managing currency and interest rate risk Discover how to create successful treasury policies Understand how to identify risks and how to hedge them Explore the relationship between trading and hedging Develop a knowledge of the currency risk management strategies of major corporations and how to profit from them Gather more information about attitudes to risk and its management

The IFF School of Investment Management - More Details

The ultimate investment management training course. Spanning the spectrum of the investment world and focusing on all asset classes, this is the most comprehensive investment management course currently available anywhere around the globe. Always a firm favourite with our investment clients, this course is always oversubscribed.

Five reasons why you must attend this residential course:

You will get to grips with the practicalities of cutting edge investment management methodologies
The residential nature of the course enables you to cover numerous highly-focused case-studies with a particular emphasis on the practical applications
Taught by the world’s leading investment management practitioners, it will provide you with the chance to learn directly from the experts
It is tailored specifically to your needs. The intensive programme and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose
It will provide you with the perfect balance between theory and practice, ensuring you return to work with all the tools you need to be an outstanding success

The IFF School of Operations - More Details

After extensive consultation with practitioners around the globe, we have formulated this programme reflecting the knowledge needs and concerns that are essential in today's market for the education and development of operations staff. Described by many past delegates as the "ultimate operations training course".

Reasons why you must attend this course:

It is the only course of its kind. No other training company provides the operations function with such a thorough yet highly practical programme
The residential nature of this programme allows the inclusion of case studies with a deeper level of appreciation and understanding
This programme will bridge the gap between theory and market practice. It will provide you with an insight into every area of operations from structure, procedure and accounting to risk and regulation
Tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the topic areas and industry sectors that YOU choose
You will have the unique opportunity to attend a completely FREE half day pre-course workshop. The workshop is a practical review of all the major financial products and will act as a worthwhile refresher

The IFF School of Private Equity - More Details

Already the programme of choice for many organisations around the world. The IFF School of Private Equity raised the bar in private equity training. Focusing on the practical aspects of private equity, this really is the only course of its kind that is designed with practitioners in mind.

Why this event is unmissable:

The only 5-day course of its kind that is dedicated to applications not just theory
You will learn from Guy Fraser-Sampson, one of the world’s leading private equity experts
The programme covers all aspects of private equity from both an LP/LG (fund level) and GP/entrepreneur (company level) perspective
You will benefit from highly practical guidance on practical matters such as fundraising and planning an investment portfolio
The use of extensive real-world practical examples and group case studies will provide you with state-of-the-art knowledge in the private equity sector
You will gain a unique insight into how private equity fits into modern investment portfolios and its role in multiasset class investing
You will receive a free signed copy of Guy Fraser-Sampson’s top selling book - Private Equity as an Asset Class