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Understanding Markets, Derivatives, Risk-Management Controls_SM

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Understanding Markets, Derivatives, Risk-Management and Controls_SM is a comprehensive program designed to equip participants with the tools they need to avoid financial disasters. Operations staff, auditors, attorneys, regulators, accountants and others, gain exposure to a host of trading-related risk taking and risk management issues such as market mechanics, financial instruments, and supporting infrastructure. The seminar uses realistic trading sessions to give participants a direct experience in the psychology and momentum of trading through role reversal techniques. By communicating trading issues to non-traders, the seminar underscores the risks of trading, portfolio and investment activities, and the areas that need support and supervision.

Topics covered by this program include:

• Trading, hedging, funding

• Futures and forward markets

• Swaps and options

• Institutional trading risks

• Components of an effective infrastructure

Day One: The program begins with an overview of how and why the trader takes positions, the products used, the risk-management techniques imbedded in the products, cash markets, and how derivatives evolved from them. Attendees have continually commented on the programs use of simple language and examples to clarify the most complicated of issues, providing a clear understanding of:

• Links between cash markets and their derivative counterparts

• Negotiable fixed-income instruments

• Interest rate risk management

• Interest Rate Swaps

• Futures

• Options

• Forward Rate Agreements

• Foreign Exchange Spot and Forward Markets

Day Two: Building on the previous day, the program moves on to issues involving controls, the types and nature of the risks associated with operating a trading room, the red flags signaling control flaws and potential danger, and the steps necessary to prevent a damaging event. An analysis of the more celebrated disasters is performed with particular attention to the warning signs that were evident early on. TRCI's experience as litigation support specialists in trading abuse cases confronts the listener with the reality and the potential dangers of being involved in such a situation.

Shifting gears, the group is then paired into teams in preparation for two intense trading sessions, the purpose of which is to vividly illustrate the issues that have been presented in the classroom. Complete with reporters asking questions, rumors, central bank action, auditors, news events and commercial customers, the trading sessions are packed with excitement and lessons. TRCI has found that presentations and workshops, while necessary and valuable, simply can't convey the issues in quite the same way as experiencing them. Attendees surveyed have all reported that the trading sessions served to drive home many of the lessons that were acknowledged and understood in the classroom, but simply not absorbed.

Day Three: With the experience and lessons of the first trading session under their belts, the final trading session takes place. Once complete, a luncheon takes place where a course review ties together the lessons discussed in the classroom to those experienced in the trading room. Individual and group performance is recognized and the course ends.

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Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®)

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Fixed Income Trading 101_SM

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Fixed Income Trading 101_SM is a program designed for participants in fixed-income markets including junior traders, portfolio staff, and salespersons.

The seminar provides attendees with a base level understanding of the mechanics, instruments and issues that are inherent to fixed-income markets. Concepts and issues introduced during presentations, later come to life in realistic trading sessions.

Topics covered by this program include:

• The U.S. treasury securities market

• The yield curve

• Financial arithmetic

• Futures, swaps and options

• Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities

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Financial Markets & Market based Products for the Private Banker_SM

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Financial Markets & Market-Based Products for Private Bankers_SM is a program designed for professionals dealing with investment products in the high net worth arena. Private bankers and sales professionals are provided with an understanding of the products and issues confronting the industry and how to apply the solutions available to the specific needs of their clients.

Topics covered by the program include:

• Speculation and capital preservation

• Foundations of fixed income markets and products

• Portfolio risk management

• Introduction to structured products

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Client Litigation Risk IssuesSM

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Client Litigation Risk Issues_SM is a one-day program designed by TRCI in response to today's increasingly litigious environment. The program, created with the assistance of a team of experienced litigators, gives attendees a sobering view of the potential liability associated with providing capital markets services.

Attendees participate in a courtroom scenario, serving as members of the prosecution, defense or jury, in a case involving a capital markets transaction. During the trial, a seasoned attorney, acting as the judge, guides participants through relevant law. The attorney highlights what are often fine lines of distinction between appropriate sales practices and those that can render a financial institution vulnerable to lawsuits.

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Currency Trading...in Plain English_SM

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Currency Trading...in plain English_SM is a comprehensive two day progam introducing forex novices to the fundamentals and factors that drive foreign exchange markets, risk management and position management techniques along with useful technical analysis.

Even savvy traders with years of experience can benefit from viewing their markets from the international perspective that this seminar provides.

Everyone involved in the currency markets - traders, salesman, and service providers could benefit from Currency Trading...in plain English_SM.

If your portfolio strategy can be summed up in six words - "Stop Me... Before I Lose Again!"- don't miss this program. It's a survival guide for every trader, but with a particular emphasis on global capital flows. A weak dollar can help the stock market or send it reeling. Understand the implications of foreign capital flows, how to assess them and how to profit by them.

Currency Trading...in plain English_SM will provide you with a powerful methodology for:

• determining the appropriate risk levels for your trades

• recognizing the major signals that drive foreign investors, and

• utilizing the best method of managing the positions for minimizing losses and maximizing profits

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Interest Rate Swaps...in Plain English_SM

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Swaps have proven to be one of the most successful financial innovations in history. Due ot their flexibility swaps continue to play a central role across the spectrum of financial markets and instrumentsfrom plain vanilla IRS to structured products and credit derivatives. This makes an understanding of the nature of swaps essential. In this one-day, hands-on introductory course, TRCI presents the basics of using and valuing swaps in the context of interest rate and currency markets.

Session Topics Include:

• The zero curve and swap valuation

• Par and asset Swaps

• Swaps, optionality, and structured products

• Calculation of swap and forward swap rates

• The swap curve and the treasury curve

• ISDA and credit risk

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Risk Management...in Plain English_SM

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Does everyone involved in supporting the Risk Management function throughout your organization fully understand and appreciate its objectives and methodology?

TRCI offers a non-technical seminar designed to help close the growing gap between the increasingly formalistic approach required by risk measurement and the risk management process as a whole. The course seeks to address this problem through a two fold approach: 1) an appreciation of the distinction between risk measurement and risk itself and 2) a basic understanding of the approaches and tools developed to model risk which have become an essential part of the lexicon of financial market participants.

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