01-2012
Coming this month -- Vair will be rolling out a completely free version of "Advanced Risk Analysis Modeling for Excel". This software add-in will be fully-functional with unlimited usage and no expiration! Stay tuned for software and risk-analysis training updates...
01-2012
Presenters from Vair, ING, Halcrow, InfraConsult, PFM and McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP delivered a 4-day PPP training event in San Diego last month. Public-Private Partnerships Masters Training Institute successfully tied together essential PPP components -- Quantitative, Technical, Financial, Political and Legal -- in one comprehensive program. The event also included a keynote speech from local City Councilmember Carl DeMaio.
Course participants, including delegates from Caltrans, SFCTA, US DOE, Kelchner, Irradius, ICTSI and Columbia Power Corp. , all made valuable contributions and helped to comprise the eclectic group of PPP practitioners.
10-2011
Vair Training completes its 2011 public-training courses in New York with two master classes: Corporate Finance and Valuation and Mergers & Acquisitions, Dec 13-14 and Dec 15-16, respectively. The new programs feature "hands-on" training and the teaching of advanced skills for corporate finance and M&A professionals. Class participants will learn sophisticated financial techniques to measure and create value as well as build extensive financial models to forecast earnings.
10-2011
PPP Masters Training Institute will stop in San Diego to deliver its 2011 West Coast workshop, Nov 29-Dec 2. Public-Private Partnership Masters Training
Institute skillfully ties together essential PPP components -- Quantitative, Technical, Financial, Political
and Legal -- in one single event.
Learn from those who have "been there and done that" on how to pick the right deal, including shaping the
politics, building the financial model and navigating through the procurement process.
Featured presenters: VAIR, ING, HALCROW, INFRACONSULT, PFM and MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE plus various keynote speakers.
NB spaces are limited for this interactive training program.
08-2011
Vair Training returns to project-finance hotbeds, Sao Paulo and New York, in the coming months. Project Finance Advanced Modeling is a 2-day, intensive and interactive training program with a distinct focus on the analytical and commercial components of the deal. Participants will learn to negotiate off the model.Both workshops are prefaced by an intermediate-level Financial Modeling and Analysis in Excel 2-day training program that teaches students shortcuts and hotkeys designed to get users "off the mouse" and become more efficient and effective modelers.
07-2011
Vair delivered an intensive, 2-day Risk Modeling & Decision Analysis in-house course for KEPCO, the South Korean utilities company. KEPCO delegates learned to develop effective and practical risk models in support of decision analysis. The course covered assessment of uncertainty, simulation, time-series forecasting, optimization, correlation, eliciting and modeling expert estimates, and communicating risk-analysis results. In addition, the course teaches essential probability and statistics theory and various stochastic processes in order to provide each participant with a solid understanding of quantitative risk-analysis methods and techniques.
06-2011
Vair Training delivered an intensive and comprehensive PPP training program to a dynamic group of international delegates in Washington, DC, June 7-10. Along with Vair's quantitative/modeling sessions, additional presenters from Halcrow, ING and McKenna Long & Aldridge added technical, financial and legal training components, respectively. The hands-on training program also featured keynote addresses from Brien Desilets of PFM and Mark Romoff, CEO of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships. Attendees examined case studies and learned the finer points of a successful PPP deal. Look for PPP Masters Training Institute to visit San Diego this fall.