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How to beat the recession
Oliver Ralph, Investors Chronicle Editor
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Opportunities Out of Chaos
Dominic Picarda, Investors Chronicle Associate Editor
With the fallout from the takeover by Lloyds TSB of HBOS and the collapse of Lehman Bros. likely to be felt more widely in 2009, Dominic will be sharing his insight into the UK economy's prospects for the coming year – and how this will affect you as an investor. Themes covered will include how to spot a bottom in the stock market; the most favourable asset classes to buy today (should you invest in equities, cash or bonds?); and the FTSE’s brightest sectors that could still make you money in a recession.
An Introduction to Exchange Traded Derivatives
Bill Beagles, Director of K2 London
Gerald Perez, Managing Director of Interactive Brokers (UK) Ltd
With an end to the 2003-2007 bull market; share prices in the doldrums and uncertainty in the air, knowing where to look for investment opportunities is increasingly challenging.
In these testing times it is vital that investors make use of all the powerful tools available to protect their existing share portfolios. This session will explain the fundamentals of futures and options and show you how to minimise the down-side risk of investments you hold; profit in falling markets and generate income during flat market conditions.
Portfolio hedging with SG Listed Products
Alexandre Chessé, UK Structured Products Specialist
"Buy low, sell high" is the dream of each and every share investor. However, people generally speaking tend to buy shares and just wait for them to rise. But when markets tend to become more volatile it is often tempting to cut-out the positions to lock-in the profits or cut-out the losses. This implies to give up the dividends and the voting rights and more to the point, to abandon the exposure of the company.
This presentation will give you the keys to portfolio hedging strategies. You will understand how to keep your shares whilst using SG Listed Products to hedge your positions.
Fixed Risk CFD trading in volatile markets
Craig Inglis, Trading Educational Specialist
With the recent turmoil in the equity markets coupled with high volatility in Currencies, Gold and US Crude, Fixed Risk CFDs may be the answer for weary investors looking to take advantage of short selling opportunities in this bear market without the unlimited downside potential.
The two key advantages of Fixed Risk CFDs is that your balance cannot go overdrawn and that stop orders will benefit from CMC Markets' unique ‘No-Slip’ Guarantee, protecting you from unforeseen market slippage.
CMC Markets have prepared a 30 minute presentation that will arm you with the necessary tools to manage your risk and how Fixed Risk CFDs can be a useful addition to any portfolio in uncertain financial markets.
Royal Bank of Scotland will be telling you what every equities investor needs to know about share certificates…
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