The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the CU Denver Business School will be the home to the Global Commodities Applied Research Digest (GCARD), a new journal that is launching to deliver summaries of top research via the JPMCC’s website. For commodity practitioners, there has not been an accessible source of concise information about current commodities research, either in specific fields or across industries, the GCARD aims to solve this issue.  Read more

David R. Hammond, Ph.D. and lecturer for the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the CU Denver Business School has been awarded the Mineral Economics Award by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). The award recognizes Hammonds’ outstanding professional accomplishments and his distinguished contributions to the field of mineral economics.  Read more

As part of their Foundations of Commodities class at the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, Emily Miller and Matthew Kelsall were afforded the opportunity to attend up to four field trips. The destinations for the field trips were; Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Cherokee Power Plant and Ardent Mills Flour Mill.  Read more

Andy Hecht, lecturer for the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities Professional Education course,  spent nearly thirty-five years on Wall Street, including two decades at the trading desk of Philipp Brothers, which became Salomon Brothers and ultimately part of Citigroup. Over the past three decades, he has researched, structured, and executed some of the largest trades ever made, which involved huge quantities of precious metals and bulk commodities.  Read more

Want hands-on trading and portfolio management experience? Gavan Duemke’s Trading in Commodities and Financial Markets will give students real-world experience in portfolio management. Through utilizing the latest academic theories and becoming familiar with industry-standard software including Bloomberg and CQG, students will be prepared for careers in asset management, investment advisory, and other related financial market positions.  Read more

The University of Colorado Denver Business School is pleased to announce the second round of faculty awards from the Tom and Jane Petrie Faculty Development Fund.  The selection committee, chaired by Dr. Marcelle Arak, reviewed an impressive number of proposals before choosing award recipients. The quality of proposals received by the selection committee, which also included Dr.  Read more

Business School team, mentored by finance instructor, advances to Trading Challenge final round Successfully navigating today’s financial markets takes uncommon nuance, experience and strategic knowledge. Two CU Denver Business School teams competing in the 2014 CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge have found the ideal mentor in finance instructor Gavan Duemke.  Read more