Structured Warrants - Going beyond the
basics
Date : 22 May 10
Time : 9:00 AM -
1:00 PM
Venue :
SGX Auditorim (Level 2)
2 Shenton Way
SGX Centre 1
Capacity : 150
Fee : S$ 0 (incl.
GST. Fees cost $10-$20 more for non-online payment. Please see
details below)
Level : Beginner to
Intermediate
Category : Seminars
Structured Warrants
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Going beyond the
basics
Seminar Outline
i. Learn how structured warrants
work.
ii. Why they should be included as part of your investment
portfolio -their benefits and risks verus the underlying i.e
shares
iii. Understand terms commonly used in structured warrants and how
do they affect the warrant behaviour eg Delta, Effective Gearing,
Implied volatility
iv. Various strategies using structured warrants i.e switching of
warrants with the passage of time, delta hedging, protect your
investment, cash extraction.
v. Investors with different risk appetities will choose different
warrants on the same underlying. How to pick the most suitable one
for your risk appretite ?
vi. How to pick the most suitable structured warrants under
different market scenarios - rangebound market, volatile
market
vii. Do and don't when investing in structured warrants
viii. Where to get the tools to help you make your investment
decisions - some which are available free on the internet.
ix. Understand things from the issuers' perspective.
x. Many mispecrceptions surround the structured warrants market.
Why ? Clear them up
This workshop is suitable for investors who either have minimal
knowledge of structured warrants or are now trading structured
warrants. The workshop will help them to develop an organised
method in choosing the most suitable warrants based on their own
risk profile and their outlook on the underlying. Investors will
also see things from the issuers' perspective and understand why
they do what they do.
Speaker's
Profile
Lid
Ooi
Ooi Lid Seng has more than 15 years of experience in the financial
industry. He was a Vice President at Societe Generale Singapore
(Structured Products) where he was responsible for the structured
warrants business focusing on sales, marketing and education.
Before joining SocGen, Lid worked with a local broking house where
he conducted seminars on structured warrants for dealers and
remisiers. He also has more than 8 years of experience working as a
dealer servicing institutional hedge funds from United States and
United Kingdom marketing equities, company listed warrants and
convertibles to fund managers. Before that, he was an Investment
Anaylst conducting in-depth research on companies listed on the
Singapore and Malaysia Stock Exchanges.
Lid wrote for a popular weekly column in the Straits Times and Lian
He Zao Bao on structured warrants and has written articles which
were published in financial magazines such as Pulses and
SmartInvestors . He has also contributed articles on behalf of
Singapore Investment Banking Association (SIBA) to MAS for
publication in newspaper and makes appearances on television to
talk about derivative products. He was on the Equity Derivatives
Investment Education Sub-Committee of SIBA which main objective is
to raise the knowledge of derivative financial products amongst the
investing public.
Lid graduated with an MBA from the University of Oregon majoring in
Finance and Management from US.
Note:
- Singapore Exchange reserves the
rights to make changes to the time, date, syllabus, speakers, venue
or cancel the seminar if warranted by circumstances beyond its
control.
- Seminar participants must be aged 21 years and above.
- Due to limited seating capacity, SGX reserves the rights not to
admit walk-in participants.
- Priority will be given to registered participants for
admission.
- The above list of seminars conducted by SGX partners may not be
exhaustive. This is
a free seminar, no payment required.