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Brightwater Training LLC, provides
derivatives training and consulting on a global basis. We and our
instructors have decades of combined training, trading and consulting
experience working with a world-wide base of banks, exchanges, trading
firms, financial services companies, universities and government
entities. We provide standardized courses, flexible module-based
programs tailored to individual client needs and highly customized
programs. We have worked with large groups and delivered programs
for single executives. We focus on practical application.
We help our clients develop trading skills, refine management techniques,
design and launch products, build marketshare and understand and control
risk. All of our presentations are conducted by practitioners of
their art. These include academics that are well respected in their
fields of development and it includes experienced traders. Some of
our instructors possess advanced degrees and come from prestigious schools,
while others are expert because of their years of practical experience
succeeding and living by what they do.
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SKILLS PORTFOLIO:
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 Strategic
Planning
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Financial
Consulting
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Teaching &
Training
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Exchange
Design & Development
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Risk
Management
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Risk Analysis
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Market
Development
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Product Design
& Development
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AREAS OF
CONCENTRATION:
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Indexes
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Equities
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Futures
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Options
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Forex
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Commodities
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Fixed Income
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Environmental
Products
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Weather
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Structured
Products
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Insurance
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Electricity
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CLIENT GROUPS :
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Exchanges
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Executive
Managers
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Market Makers
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Brokers
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Hedgers &
Speculators
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Risk Managers
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Treasurers
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Universities
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Fund Managers
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Trading &
Back Office Support Personnel
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Derivative
Sales Personnel
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End Users
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Government
Agencies
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Trade
Associations
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We and our instructors count these highlights among our
career achievements:
- Developed a strategic plan and designed
appropriate products and financial services for Eurex, now among the
largest derivatives exchange in the world, as team member in
preparation for European Monetary Union and beyond.
- Trained screen-based derivatives traders
throughout Europe and Asia since 1989.
- Managed proprietary options, futures and
cash trading for Chicago-based market-maker active on exchanges in
the US, Asia and Europe .
- Created a strategic plan for an
online-based exchange with industry specific clearing, derivative
and other financial products for the industrial parts division of an
exchange listed internet company; developed strategy for a Financial
Services division for the parent company.
- Conducted a series of presentations and
consultations in the Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana for government
ministries and organizations associated with coffee and cocoa
production and marketing regarding the creation of a regional
commodities exchange as part of economic liberalization.
- Educated senior executives at exchanges and
banks as part of the development of options and futures launches.
- Managed recruitment,
training, development and risk oversight of hundreds of options
market makers on many exchanges worldwide.
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- Helped the Zagreb Stock Exchange prepare
the local financial community for the development of a derivatives
product market as part of the general development of the capital
market structure in Croatia.
- Conducted preliminary seminars to aid the
re-establishment of a stock exchange in Ethiopia after 20 years of
Marxist rule.
- Developed the early stage protocols for
creating synthetic currencies to manage currency risk for a
Scandinavian bank.
- Led the team designing the protocols
for stock index arbitrage in the KOSPI 200 for LG Securities.
- Trained members of the Austrian financial
community to prepare the country for the launch of their first debt
futures contract.
- Identified the needs of national markets and
helped implement the requisite elements to ensure market readiness
during exchange development. Among the countries not
otherwise listed above that have benefited from our recommendations
are Spain, South Korea, Malaysia, and Mexico.
- Served on the team engineering the
start-up of currency, interest rate and option trading desk at banks
throughout Europe and the Americas.
- Developed business solutions to reef related
environmental problems.
- Coordinated the opening of
the New York Futures Exchange and managed the development of the
local trading population.
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