Develop a comprehensive, practical understanding of forwards and futures including market conventions, contract specifications, valuation, and trading strategies.
Module 4: Hedge Accounting for Forwards and Futures
Fair value and cash flow hedges
Basis and hedge ineffectiveness
Desk-Ready Skills
Learn to price forward and futures contracts
Be familiar with futures contract specifications and market conventions
Understand common trading strategies using forwards and futures
Understand basic hedge accounting using forwards and futures
Asset managers, fund managers, risk managers, treasury analysts, regulators, auditors, controllers and financial journalists
Khosrow Mehrzad
Khosrow has broad experience in capital market, financial products, micro and macro analysis, and portfolio management. Khosrow founded Parsa Capital Management in 2015, where he manages an equity fund. Khosrow joined JP Morgan as analyst responsible for hedging, risk management and structuring for two special situation investment funds with over $1 billion in assets. He later became a senior portfolio manager responsible for relative values trades and spearheaded firm’s effort in launching hedge funds. Khosrow was a senior valuation analyst at Six Financial Information, responsible for pricing exotic derivatives. He also managed a team of analysts, and led the process of migrating the models from PC environment to company’s main computing platform. Khosrow worked as Co-CIO at AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions, a startup hedge fund where he developed the tactical asset allocation models. Khosrow was a Director at Deutsche Bank Advisors oversaw a team of analysts located in India, conducted fundamental analysis of US equities, and managed an equity proprietary book. Khosrow received a BS from Sharif University of Technology, a MS from McGill University, and earned an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
