Functional Areas
- Asset pricing and hedging
- Contract securitization and derivative structuring
- Risk measurements and management
- Asset management and portfolio allocation
- Trading strategies and operations
- Macro market analysis and microstructure
- Corporate finance of producers and end consumers
- Long-term investment financing
- Regulation (EMIR, REMIT, MIFID, Dodd-Franck)
- Quantitative financial modeling
- Econometric analysis and statistics
- Physical operations management
- Real options and physical asset valuation
- Decision theory
Markets
- Energy: unrefined products (crude oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel), refined products (fuel oils, heating oil, diesel fuel, RBOB gasoline, jet kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electricity
- Metals: precious (gold, silver, platinum, palladium), base (copper, aluminium, lead, nickel, tin, zinc), ferrous (iron ore, iron, steel, refined steel products), specialist non-ferrous (chromium, molybdenum, titanium, tantalum, vanadium), rare (scandium, yttrium, lanthanides)
- Agriculturals: softs (cocoa, coffee, sugar, rubber, orange juice, tea, cotton, jute, wool, jute, hides, lumber, milk), grains and seeds (wheat, corn, soybeans, rice, oats), livestock (live cattle, feeder cattle, lean hogs, pork bellies)
- Standardized services: CO2 permits, shipping freight, weather-linked claims
- Currencies
- Renewables