Sean Carnahan

Webinar: Successful Commodities Hedging – Making Intelligent Hedging Decisions

In 1 on November 17, 2009 at 5:05 pm

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW to learn more about an effective hedging process.

 
 

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Successful Commodities Hedging- Making Intelligent Hedging Decisions

Do you know how to measure the success of your hedging program? Uncertain how much of your exposure to hedge?

Join SunGard Energy and Commodities and host speaker Moazzam Khoja for this complimentary 60-minute Web Seminar. Learn more about commodity hedging and it's strategic importance.

Risk methodologies have been employed by the corporations for several decades to protect cash flows. However, the issue of how to set a hedge policy and whether to hedge or not baffle many corporations. A lack of familiarity with hedging tools and strategies compounds this confusion.

See how an effective hedging program helps you to transform confusion into clarity. Learn more about the five step hedging process designed to help hedgers to make informed hedging decisions and whether or not their companies stand to benefit from a hedging program. 

REGISTER NOW to learn more about an effective hedging process.

  • Featured Speaker: Moazzam Khoja, senior vice president, SE&C 
  • Date: December 3, 2009
  • Time: US: 10:00am CST, Europe: 5:00pm CET


About Moazzam Khoja

Moazzam Khoja, CFA is the senior vice president at SunGard Energy and Commodities. In this capacity he looks at the strategic issues facing SunGard customers in particular and commodity derivatives industry in general. He presents SunGard's Kiodex risk management solutions to enterprises that take commodity risks. He has worked for the past thirteen years in the commodity risk management area including issues related to commodity derivatives valuations, structuring of complex energy and credit derivatives, and hedging process and analysis. He has authored several articles in leading industry publications to address these issues. He obtained his MBA from the Columbia Business School in 1996 and his chartered financial analyst designation in 2003.

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Invitation to SunGard Web Seminar: New Regulatory Changes for the Gas Market: NAESB 1.9

In 1 on November 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW for NAESB 1.9 : part 1

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New Regulatory Changes for the Gas Market: NAESB 1.9

Is your gas business impacted by the NAESB 1.9 regulations? Are you prepared for compliance? Ready to utilize new capabilities?

Join SunGard Energy and Commodities and host speaker Sylvia Munson for two complimentary 60-minute Web Seminars. Learn more about the specific changes that come along with NAESB 1.9. We like to hear from you how these changes will impact your business.

NAESB 1.9 part 1: Learn more about the nominations, flowing gas, and invoicing changes. NAESB 1.9 contains a new standard 1.3.80 which requires pipelines to support flexible receipt and delivery points for existing nominations. This standard alone has the potential to be implemented differently by every pipeline. Our goal in this session is to find a small set of solutions that will meet all of your needs.

NAESB 1.9 part 2: This sessions will explore capacity release, electronic delivery mechanism (EDM) and additional standards changes. You will learn about new requirement for pipelines to support index based transportation pricing and an extensive set of rules goes with those requirements. See, how new gas quality reporting requirements help you and learn how those should be implemented.

REGISTER NOW for NAESB 1.9 part 1:

  • Featured Speaker: Sylvia Munson, director, product management, SE&C 
  • Date: December 1, 2009

Time: 1:00pm CST

REGISTER NOW for NAESB 1.9 part 2:

  • Featured Speaker: Sylvia Munson, director, product management, SE&C 
  • Date: December 8, 2009
  • Time: 1:00pm CST


About Sylvia Munson

Ms. Munson directs gas operations and pipeline product management for SunGard Energy and Commodities. She has participated in the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) since its inception as GISB in 1995 and has served on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee and as chair of various sub-committees. Ms. Munson is a highly regarded speaker and author who has written various articles and contributed several to NAESB published books.

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SunGard Energy & Commodities Web Seminar: Lessons for Financial Risk Management from the Great Recession

In 1 on October 16, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Register for this free SunGard Energy & Commodities Webinar
http://bit.ly/financialriskwebinar


What has the financial crisis taught us about risk management? Do you think the "reach for yield" distort the market's risk preferences?

Join SunGard Energy & Commodities and Dr. David Rowe in this complimentary 60-minute Web Seminar. Learn about the evolution of risk management, where it failed during the credit crisis and the lessons we learn from it. See, how these lessons impact the energy markets.

Learn from this expert in the risk management industry about:

  • Statistical entropy – the inherent limits of quantitative tools 
  • Importance of structural imagination - why we neglected dimension of risk analysis
  • Self-Referential Feedback - the danger of corrosive feedback loops in pricing and risk management
  • Complexity and Dark Risk - intransparency breeds hidden dangers
  • Alternate Means of Valuation - ignore a possible failure of liquidity at your peril

Discuss with David the attention which has been paid to Value-at-Risk (VaR) as a tool for risk estimation and his definition for VaR not being the "worst case loss".

Below link is to register for this free SunGard Energy & Commodities Webinar
http://bit.ly/financialriskwebinar

o Featured Speaker: Dr. David Rowe, EVP, SunGard Adaptiv
o Date: October 29, 2009
o Time: 10:00am CST (4:00pm CET*)

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