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June 2008 Optional Sessions

Sunday, June 8, 2008
    2:00 – 4:30
    OPTIONAL SESSION: FUNDAMENTALS OF MARKET BEHAVIOR
    (requires additional registration fee of $200 or $340 for both optional sessions)
    Chris Morley
    Senior Vice-President
    Global Risk Management Corp.

    This session will focus on what makes market behavior unpredictable and the importance of strategy within the risk management process. Risk management will be stressed in four segments:

    • Market analysis and market behavior with a focus on key inputs

    • Market structures, explaining carrying charges and inverse situations

    • Basis, or cash market premiums and discounts, a difficult concept for new ingredient buyers
    • Total cost management

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
    12:30 – 3:00
    OPTIONAL SESSION: INTEGRATING COMMODITIES INTO YOUR BUSINESS
    (requires additional registration fee of $200 or $340 for both optional sessions)
    Matt Beeson
    President
    Beeson & Associates, Inc.