Certified Investment Supporter – Online Certification Program

Course description

This certification program is designed for professionals who work with or support front office in a financial institution or a corporate treasury function. The program provides a broad understanding of the areas covered by front office. You will learn about the equity, bond, money and foreign exchange markets. You will also learn about derivatives and the market for alternative investments. The program consists of 2 modules. After the final module you can take an exam and thereby become a Certified Investment Supporter.

This course is also offered as a physical course. Read more.

How is the online course conducted?

The certification programme is delivered as e-learning through our digital learning platform. The course combines narrated presentations, videos with whiteboard explanations, Excel exercises, quizzes and reading materials, allowing you to learn at your own pace – whenever and wherever it suits you.

You should allow approximately 2 working days for each module, including assignments and the exam – a total of approximately 4 working days. The course includes 4 months’ access.

Course content

Module 1: The Financial Markets
– Stock market
– Bond market
– FX- and money market
– The Swedish financial institutions

Module 2: Derivatives
– Futures and options
– Repos
– FRAs, swaps and interest rate options
– Credit derivatives
– EMIR / MIFID II

The course is relevant to

– Backoffice employees
– Middle office employees
– IT-employees
– Accountants
– Internal Auditors
– Legal staff
– Newcomers to the financial market
– Compliance
– Operations
– Controllers
– Graduates
– Product Managers

Prerequisites

No specific requirements. You will be asked to do exercises during the modules.

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Instructor on this course

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen is Managing Director of Financial Training Partner A/S, which he co-founded in 2002.

He has many years of teaching experience as a chief consultant at SimCorp’s training department, which he joined in 1996. Prior to SimCorp he worked at Danske Bank with fixed income research and fixed income sales.

Jørgen also works as an external lecturer at CBS (Copenhagen Business School) and was awarded teacher of the year at CBS’ education Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Financial planning).

He is author of the books Finansiel Risikostyring (Financial Risk Management) and Finansielle Derivater (Financial Derivatives) published by Djøf Publishing.

He holds an M.Sc. (international finance) and an HD (accounting).

Jørgen teaches Derivatives, Risk Management, Portfolio Management and Fixed Income

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