About Us
Specialists in Financial Markets Training
Our reputation as a leading financial markets training company has been built on several pillars of excellence:
- Our training coaches all possess relevant practical experience and academic credentials.
- We devote considerable time to research to ensure that our learning materials reflect current best practice.
- Our ACI, PRMIA and Short programmes are always preceded by preparatory reading and assessment, in order to ensure that the learning opportunity is optimised.
- We emphasise active learning via the use of case studies and simulators, to ensure that delegates acquire a practical understanding of a topic.
- We strongly advocate the use of post-assessments in order to verify that the required learning outcomes have been achieved.
Our Team
Peter Skerritt
Peter’s career in the financial markets spans three decades and three continents, and he has worked as a derivatives trader, financial engineer, author, and consultant. With experience in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa, he has both traded and structured derivative products in a variety of asset classes. He has co-edited all three editions of the text ‘Understanding South African Financial Markets’, and is the author of ‘Introduction to Derivatives’. He holds a number of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including a MBA in Finance, as well as a host of professional financial qualifications.
Lerato Metseeme
Our Programme Director, Lerato, manages the ‘engine room’ of Peter Skerritt & Associates. She has spent most of her professional career as a Client Relationship Manager in the Financial Services Industry and is currently completing a BCom in Financial Management.
Associates
Our company is proud to be associated with a number of leading experts in specialist fields.
These include:
Peter Scullion
Peter has over twenty years experience in the London Financial Markets. He began his career in the Fixed Income Fund Management sector, specifically trading in European Government Bonds before moving to Fixed Income sales at a US Investment Bank.
He subsequently worked in the FX market for various international banks covering FX and derivative sales to Central Banks and Hedge Funds. He has also been involved in setting up and running Prime Brokerage and Margin Trading systems as well as trading CFDs and metals.
George Van Der Westhuizen
An Actuarial Science graduate, George has extensive experience of the South African and international fixed income derivatives markets, He has worked as both a cash and derivatives trader and his resume includes the position of Head of Swaps at Absa Bank.
He has lectured and consulted widely on the topic across many countries on the African continent and beyond, and is well-known for his emphasis on practical modelling of cash flows to gain a true understanding of their economic characteristics.
More recently, George has successfully conducted introductory and advanced ALM workshops in several leading centres across the globe, utilising his proprietary ALM simulator.
“I sometimes wonder why people still use the Black-Scholes formula, since it is based on such simple assumptions – unrealistically simple assumptions.”
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
“Banking is necessary; banks are not.”
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity, but to their self-love.”
“If the story of the past quarter of a century has a one-line plot summary, it is the rediscovery of the power of market capitalism.”
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