Finance and Banking

Managing Short-Term Investment Portfolios for Treasury Departments

Turn treasury short-term portfolios from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Short-Term Investment Portfolios for Treasury Departments
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

In finance the difference between a healthy position on treasury short-term portfolios and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. Models supporting the financial and banking practice discipline fail quietly, and usually at the worst moment. The version of the financial and banking practice capability described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. This programme builds treasury short-term portfolios from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. It suits anyone whose decisions touch this part of financial and banking practice, in large organisations and small ones alike. They acquire practical criteria for judging when this area of financial and banking practice is working and when it is only appearing to. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of treasury short-term portfolios and prepares them for it. Comparative studies of the financial and banking practice capability across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this strand of financial and banking practice rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Build a concise control framework for treasury short-term portfolios that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

  • Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Validate the assumptions inside any model supporting treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Design reconciliation and settlement controls covering treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Set early warning indicators that flag deterioration in treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Translate policy on treasury short-term portfolios into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.

  • Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to treasury short-term portfolios.

Who Should Attend

  • Investment and portfolio managers exposed to treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Managers in small and medium organisations who own treasury short-term portfolios alongside other duties.

  • Regulatory reporting analysts covering treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Treasury and asset-liability staff managing treasury short-term portfolios.

  • Finance managers reporting on treasury short-term portfolios.

Course Modules

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01

Treasury short-term portfolios: risk appetite, limits and policy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The control on treasury short-term portfolios that looks strong and is not

  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by treasury short-term portfolios.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when treasury short-term portfolios underperforms.
  • Close out actions on treasury short-term portfolios rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for treasury short-term portfolios.

Session 2Reporting treasury short-term portfolios so the reader can act on it

  • List the assumptions in any model supporting treasury short-term portfolios and when each was last challenged.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates treasury short-term portfolios is under control.
  • Set early warning indicators for treasury short-term portfolios with defined action thresholds.
  • Confirm reporting on treasury short-term portfolios reaches the committee that can act on it.
02

Treasury short-term portfolios: stress testing and scenario analysis

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who answers for treasury short-term portfolios, and to whom

  • Compare the cost of treasury short-term portfolios with the cost of its absence.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains treasury short-term portfolios to those affected.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in treasury short-term portfolios.
  • Define acceptance criteria for treasury short-term portfolios in advance.

Session 2Comparing treasury short-term portfolios with recognised practice

  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in treasury short-term portfolios.
  • Review the pricing of treasury short-term portfolios against the risk being assumed.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on treasury short-term portfolios is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Design the exception process for treasury short-term portfolios and require a documented rationale.
03

Treasury short-term portfolios: exceptions, breaches and remediation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handling a breach of policy on treasury short-term portfolios properly

  • Review whether treasury short-term portfolios is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
  • Set escalation thresholds for treasury short-term portfolios that work out of hours.
  • Translate the appetite for treasury short-term portfolios into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside treasury short-term portfolios.

Session 2Reading the current state of treasury short-term portfolios honestly

  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating treasury short-term portfolios operated as designed.
  • Estimate the resource treasury short-term portfolios requires to run as designed.
  • Identify the key controls over treasury short-term portfolios and who tests them.
  • Check the accounting treatment applied to treasury short-term portfolios against current standards.
04

Treasury short-term portfolios: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Stress scenarios for treasury short-term portfolios that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Build the competence framework that supports treasury short-term portfolios.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to treasury short-term portfolios are current.
  • Anticipate the objections treasury short-term portfolios will raise and prepare the answers.
  • State the risk appetite for treasury short-term portfolios as a number, not an adjective.

Session 2What treasury short-term portfolios does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of treasury short-term portfolios.
  • Rehearse the briefing on treasury short-term portfolios that would follow an incident.
  • Test treasury short-term portfolios against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
  • Remove steps in treasury short-term portfolios that add effort without adding assurance.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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