Forgot Password
This text is needed here for break to work!

Think Like an Analyst! (August 2012)

print
Date: 8/23/2012
Event start time: 09:00 AM
Price: Members: $949.00 - Non-Members: $1149.00
Register


Miranda Lane
Miranda Lane
FinanceTalking
Chartered Accountant with 20 years experience teaching finance to corp. comm. professionals
view bio

David Yates
David Yates
FinanceTalking
Thirty years in the financial markets industry
view bio

Learn to look through the eyes of one of your key target audiences. Find out how analysts think, how they build their models and what pushes their buttons.

Held August 23 in San Francisco, California.
Breakfast at 8am
Seminar 9am - 5pm  

Please click on FinanceTalking for more information about the company.

The Big Picture

  • The role of analysts in today’s capital markets
  • Sell-side and buy-side – similarities and differences
  • Primary tasks of an equity research analyst
  • Analyst perspectives, pressures and typical characteristics
  • How analysts make money
  • Sources of information and how it is organised
  • How you can help…

Identifying Value Drivers

  • Understanding the industry and peer group identification
  • Analyzing capacity and demand – the importance of historical analysis
  • Identifying the food chain – suppliers and customers
  • Critical factors that impact earnings, cash flows or returns
  • Key questions you need to be able to answer on strategy

Forecasting and Model Building

  • Typical models
  • How analysts forecast and the role of guidance
  • Special factors for cyclical or growth companies
  • Red flags
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Understanding the key assumptions in consensus
  • Key questions you need to be able to answer on the financials
  • Understanding price targets and recommendations

Lessons for Communications with Analysts

  • Key influencing skills – understanding what’s in it for them and what are their concerns
  • The role of non-verbal communications (including body language)
  • Implications of Reg FD
  • Tactics to encourage a following
  • Top tips for IR
  • Top tips for senior management

How you will learn…
This course will put you in the shoes of an analyst so that you can see things from their perspective. Exercises include a team forecasting competition, interpreting how guidance affects an analyst’s model and identifying the key assumptions in consensus.


Biography

Miranda Lane
Miranda is Managing Director of FinanceTalking Ltd. Miranda has more than 16 years’ experience of teaching finance to people who do not have a financial background. This, and her broad City experience in investment banking and financial PR/IR, enables her to explain complex subjects in simple ways.
  • Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 with Touche Ross in London
  • Worked for investment bank, Morgan Grenfell, analyzing companies
  • Financial PR and Investor Relations in two leading consultancies
  • Gained invaluable experience freelancing for a City training company, teaching analysis of financial statements and equity analysis
Over the last 15 years, Miranda has taught people from well over 50% of FTSE 100 companies and from most of the leading financial PR consultancies in the UK.

Miranda founded FinanceTalking to provide the best financial training to the corporate communications world. She designs and teaches highly relevant, practical courses for FinanceTalking and for companies’ in-house training programs.

David Yates
David joined FinanceTalking in 2009 after nearly thirty years in the financial markets as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and financial PR specialist.
  • Qualified as a solicitor in 1982
  • Joined Linklaters & Paines, specializing in capital markets and corporate law
  • Joined the corporate finance division of Robert Fleming, London based merchant bank, in 1984
  • Spent three years on secondment with Jardine Fleming in Australia between 1987 and 1990
  • Began his Financial PR career in 1995 with Gavin Anderson & Company
  • Joined Financial Dynamics (FD) as a partner at the end of 1998 and commenced their coverage of the Life Sciences sector
  • Retired from FD in March 2009 following sale of the company to FTI Technologies, Inc. of the US
During his financial PR career in the financial markets, David built a reputation as one of the leading practitioners in London and acquired experience in all aspects of the financial markets, particularly M&A and IPOs.  Together with his experience in the law and the investment banking sector, he has an in-depth knowledge of the workings of the markets, the roles that each of the institutions play in the markets and how business is covered by the media.
top
From: 
Email:  
To: 
Email:  
Subject: 
Message: