What do you get from Training with CRU?

  • Relevant content structured around your training needs
  • Specialist trainers from CRU's large team of consultants
  • Courses to suit all levels of experience, from trainees through to senior management

CRU Training has already run courses in the following areas. 

Entry-level course on the major metals markets
Two-day course run for newly appointed analysts at one of the world’s major mining houses.  The modules on copper, stainless steel, nickel, chrome, coal and zinc provided profiles of these sectors, from extraction to end-use, with particular emphasis on these questions:

  • Which sectors of the industry are attractive and why?
  • What are the major risks facing an operator in each sector?  How can they be mitigated?
  • Excluding the normal financial measures, what should be the key criteria for investment?

Comments by the participants included: "Enjoyable format and good interaction" and "Brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed course".

 

Hedging and Commodity Exchange workshop
This is a popular course designed to teach participants the fundamentals of commodity trading and hedging.  The training is of particular significance for companies at risk from the volatility of the metals markets.  The course covers such aspects as:

  • Basic features of the market
  • Metals contracts
  • Structure of the LME
  • Basis price concept
  • Physical delivery and premiums
  • Role and value of speculation
  • Definition and purpose of hedging
  • Identification of price risk

The course includes a number of group and individual practical exercises to reinforce the lessons taught.

Market Research and Consultancy Techniques
Developed for one of the world’s largest steel companies, this ten-day course was run in China by means of formal group teaching and workshop exercises.  It featured techniques used by CRU itself to produce the data used by the leaders in the metals industries to make tactical and strategic decisions.

The key subject areas covered were:

Data Sourcing and Pricing – Steel product definitions and pricing terms, sources of raw materials, building a steel database.

Forecasting and Model Building – Trend analysis and regression analysis, forecasting prices and long-term forecasting.

Consultancy Techniques – Company analysis, valuation techniques, benchmarking, risk-analysis, value-based management and profit velocity.


 

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