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Investment Certification School

September 16-20, 2024 // Chicago, IL

Venue: The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago

Schedule

7:00 – 8:00 a.m. - Registration & Breakfast provided

8:00 – 9:45 a.m. - Basic Investment Structures and Cash Flows

Gain a fundamental understanding of commonly held investments and the application of key financial characteristics.  The following will be covered: basic investment structures, bullet – CD, treasury and agency, floating rate securities, callable, and step-up structures. 

Speaker: Adam Wolcott

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. - Break

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Understanding Key Principles and Financial Characteristics

Learn key financial characteristics, the proper application and common misapplications.  The following will be covered: yield, spread, WAL, time value of money, durations (McCauley, modified, effective, spread), option-adjusted spread, and term structure of interest rates.

Speaker: Kevin Chiappetta, CFA

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Lunch provided

12:30 – 2:15 p.m. - MBS and CMO Basics, Structures, and Cash flows

The following will be covered: mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, common issuers and implications, and key factors that should impact risk adjusted returns.

Speaker: Adam Wolcott

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 – 4:00 p.m. - Developing Rish/Return Requirements for the Investment Portfolio

Learn how to show the Board and ALCO the role the investment portfolio plays as part of the balance sheet from first mitigating the net risk between shares and loans, generating returns and aligning clear risk, return benchmarks based on balance sheet interest rate

Speaker: Kevin Chiappetta, CFA

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast provided

8:00 – 9:15 a.m. - Corporate Governance – Customizing Portfolio and Instrument Level Constraints

All previously discussed issues come together in the development of the investment, liquidity, interest rate risk, and concentration risk policies. During this session, you will learn how to customize policies given the unique characteristics of your credit union.

Speaker: Bart Smith

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. - Break

9:30 – 11:00 a.m. - Effective Portfolio Management

The following questions will be answered during this session.  What role should the portfolio play at your credit union? What are the three rules of effective portfolio management? What habits do you need to embrace to be successful?

Speaker: Nigel Johnson

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Lunch on your own

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. - CCUIP Fundamentals Exam Review

This review session will help prepare you for the Certified Credit Union Investments Professional (CCUIP) exam. Materials will be reviewed, and you may ask questions

Speaker: Jim Toliver

2:00 – 2:15 p.m. - Break

2:15 – 4:00 p.m. - Accounting, Monitoring, and Reporting to Board and ALCO

The following will be covered: address monitoring your investment portfolio, explore portfolio reporting, learn rebalancing alternatives, learn the mechanics of the trade, and explore safekeeping and selecting a safekeeping agent.

Speaker: Todd DeVoogd

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast provided

8:00 – 9:15 a.m. - Managing Broker Relationships and Counterparty Exposure

A credit union portfolio manager will discuss one approach to managing broker relationships and counterparty exposures.

Speakers: Todd DeVoogd & Jim Toliver

9:15 – 9:45 a.m. - CCUIP Fundamentals Exam Review

This review session will help prepare you for the Certified Credit Union Investments Professional (CCUIP) exam. Materials will be reviewed, and you may ask questions.

Speaker: Jim Toliver

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. - Break

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Certified Credit Union Investment Professional (CCUIP) Fundamentals Exam

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. -  Registration & lunch provided

12:30 – 1:15 p.m. - The Problem

  • What is the problem all financial institutions face?
  • What is the importance of capital allocation decisions?
  • Is banking/your job easy?
  • What is the dilemma you face?
  • What is the problem with top-down investing?
  • What is the track record of economist forecasting?
  • What is the way forward?

Speaker: Nigel Johnson

1:15 – 1:30 p.m. - Break

1:30 – 2:20 p.m. - The Use and Abuse of Conventional Analytics

  • Select between four unlike cash flows.
  • Select the best and worst performing cash flow.
  • Common misapplications of key financial concepts
  • Yield definition
  • Duration measurement

Speaker: Brian Battle

2:20 – 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. - Is There a Money Ball Solution?

  • Is there a money ball problem?
  • Is there a money ball solution?
  • Problems with conventional analytics
  • Break-even analysis
  • Total future value analysis - Walk through calculations of bullet cash flows

Speaker: Brian Battle

3:15 - 3:20 p.m. - Break

3:20 - 4:30 p.m. - Overcoming Analytical Contradictions

  • Rolling down yield curve
  • Review way forward
  • Total return scenario analysis - Walk through calculations of bullet and callable bonds
  • Review and compare projected returns to actual returns

Speaker: Nigel Johnson

5:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Social Outing Hosted by Performance Trust University

Details TBD

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast provided

8:00 – 9:15 a.m. - A Framework for Fixed-Income Decision Making

  • Why it matters
  • Historical credit union performance and the difference between top and bottom performers
  • Money Table Game illustrating power of counting dollars 
  • Importance of a portfolio approach to investing

Speaker: Nigel Johnson

9:15 – 10:45 a.m. - Total Return Scenario Analysis: Applied to Bullet and Callable Securities

  • Hands-on exercise
  • Importance of rolling down yield curve
  • Outcome based scenario analysis vs. conventional analysis
  • Review and compare projected returns to actual returns, and importance of looking back

Speaker: Adam Wolcott

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. - Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Evaluating Live Bullet and Callable Offerings

  • Review live offerings credit unions are currently being offered.
  • Learn the analysis, comparison, and selection process.
  • Reinforce objective risk/reward decision making using real-world examples.

Speaker: Adam Wolcott  

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. - Lunch provided

12:30 – 2:15 p.m. - Case Study: Risk/Reward Decision-Making Framework 

  • Illustrate difference between decisions based on intuition vs. math.
  • Apply all learnings thus far.
  • Defend decisions to board of directors.

Speaker: Adam Wolcott & Nigel Johnson

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 – 3:45 p.m. - Decomposing MBS and CMOs 

  • Conventional MBS Reapportioning cash flows for a CMO
  • Prepayment speeds, PSA, CPR, consensus, and vectored cash flows
  • Impact of cash flow volatility on MBS pools and CMO structures
  • Evaluations of collateral and cash flows

Speaker: Adam Wolcott  

3:45 – 4:30 p.m. - CCUIP Advanced Exam Review

This review session will help prepare you for the Certified Credit Union Investments Professional (CCUIP) exam. Materials will be reviewed, and you may ask questions.

Speaker: Jim Toliver, CFA

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast provided

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. - Moving Coupons

  • Are adjustable-rate securities an insurance policy against rising rates?
  •  Traditionally, how are floating rate securities evaluated?
  •  What are different types of risks in adjustable securities?
  • What is the historical performance of ARMs vs. fixed-rate mortgages?

Speaker: Adam Wolcott  

9:00– 9:15 a.m. - Break

9:15 – 10:15 a.m. - Workshop: Security Level Risk/Reward Decision Making

During this competition, you will independently evaluate investment options and build a portfolio competing against other attendees. 

Speakers: Adam Wolcott  & Nigel Johnson

10:15 – 11:15 a.m. - Looking Forward – Applying Lessons Learned Across the Balance Sheet

To survive, your credit union needs quality sustainable earnings. How do we apply what we have learned from this program to the whole balance sheet? Is NEV and NII giving us valuable information or is it leaving us with blind spots in our decision-making process?  These questions and more will be answered in this interactive session.

Speaker: Nigel Johnson 

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. - Lunch provided

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. - CCUIP Advanced Exam Review

This review session will help prepare you for the Certified Credit Union Investments Professional (CCUIP) exam. Materials will be reviewed, and you may ask questions.

Speaker: Jim Toliver, CFA

12:15 – 12:30 p.m. - Break

12:30 – 2:30 p.m. - Certified Credit Union Investment Professional (CCUIP) Advanced Exam

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