Track: Global Financial Management

World Event Trading

Monday, October 20, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: 515 A

In our increasingly interconnected global society, world events can have a profound impact on the financial markets. In order for well-prepared investors to profit from these occurrences, they need the ability to recognize the consistent characteristics of these events and the vision to build a strategy or portfolio that can take advantage of them as they begin to unfold. In this session, foreign exchange strategist, Andy Busch, will discuss several types of world events and provide hands-on strategies for trading profitably on each. A book signing at the AFP Bookstore (Booth 425) will follow the session.

Speakers:

• Andrew B. Busch
  Global Foreign Exchange Strategist
  BMO Capital Markets

Objectives

• Understand how events impact market fluctuations
• Learn how to recognize the characteristics of events that will have an effect on the market

Pre-Requisites

None

Take-Aways

None

CPA Field of Study: MAS