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- Price: FREE
- Enrolled: 63 students
- Language: English
- Certificate: Yes
- Difficulty: Beginner
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What You'll Learn
- Commodities basics: The definition and classification of commodities
- including hard and soft commodities.
- Market structure: How global commodity markets function and how spot and futures markets differ.
- Financial institutions: How banks and financial institutions engage with commodity markets.
- Major Commodities Exchanges
- location
- speciaalizations etc
- Derivatives: How futures contracts
- options
- and swaps are used in commodity markets.
- Commodity indices: The role of indices such as the GSCI and Bloomberg Commodity Index.
- Trade finance: Commodity trade finance and pre-export financing structures.
- Producer hedging How producers hedge price risk using derivatives.
- Risk awareness: The risks of commodity investing
- including volatility
- geopolitics
- and weather.
- Portfolio use: How commodities can support diversification and act as an inflation hedge.
- Resource economics: The resource curse and lessons from commodity-dependent economies.
- ESG and supply chains: ESG considerations in commodity supply chains and sourcing decisions.
- "Public wealth management: Norways sovereign wealth fund as a model of responsible resource management."
- Energy transition metals: Critical minerals such as lithium
- cobalt
- and copper driving the energy transition.
- How retail and institutional investors access commodity markets.
- Electronics materials: Semiconductor and electronics materials including silicon
- gallium
- and indium.
- Infrastructure finance: Project finance structures for commodity infrastructure.
- Investment products: Commodity ETFs
- structured notes
- and commodity-linked bonds.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of financial markets and how they work
- Familiarity with fundamental economic concepts such as supply
- demand
- and inflation
- No prior commodity knowledge required — this course starts from first principles
- An interest in global markets
- geopolitics
- or the energy transition
- Access to a spreadsheet tool such as Excel or Google Sheets is helpful but not essential
Description
Welcome to Understanding of Commodities
This course offers a clear, practical introduction to commodities and their growing importance within financial services.
It explores how energy, metals, and agricultural products move through global markets, and explains the forces that shape their prices, from supply and demand dynamics to geopolitics, seasonality, and macroeconomic trends.
You will learn how commodity markets function, how traders and investors gain exposure, and why these markets are essential to banks, asset managers, corporates, and policymakers around the world.
Along the way, you will build a strong understanding of the major commodity types, the financial instruments used to access them, and the risks and benefits associated with each approach.
The course also examines key ESG considerations, including sustainability, responsible sourcing, and the transition toward lower-carbon resources. It highlights emerging tech-driven commodities such as lithium, copper, silicon, and rare earths, showing how they are shaping the future of energy, infrastructure, and digital innovation.
Designed for everyone, from the casual interested non-finance individual to the finance professionals - anyone seeking a deeper understanding of global markets, this course makes a complex subject accessible without losing rigor.
Commodities underpin the global economy, influence inflation, affect supply chains, and play a powerful role in international relations. As the world moves through harnessing additional sources of energy energy, their relevance is only increasing.
Whether you want to strengthen your market knowledge, broaden your financial toolkit, or better understand the forces shaping the real economy, this course gives you the insight to think more strategically and act with confidence.
Enrol now and gain the knowledge to navigate one of the most important asset classes in the world.
Look forward to seeing you on the course.
Best regards,
Baba Oyewole FCCA
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in understanding Commodities
- Supply chain managers
- Procurement officers
- Energy sector professionals
- Mining & resources executives
- Agricultural business managers
- Investment bankers
- Corporate finance analysts
- Trade finance officers
- Commodity traders
- Risk managers
- Risk Officers
- Family Office Professionals
- Structured finance professionals
- Asset managers
- Hedge fund analysts
- Private equity associates
- Treasury professionals
- Central bank economists
- ESG & sustainability analysts
- Financial journalists & researchers
- Management consultants advising commodity-exposed clients
- Finance & economics undergraduates
- MBA students
- CFA candidates
- Graduate scheme applicants
- Postgraduate economics students
- Economic Students
- Student interested in understanding how commodities work
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