{"id":6537,"date":"2020-09-10T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2020-09-10T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:21:37","slug":"mfre-speaker-series-lyft-commodity-cash-trading-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6537","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker Series: Lyft Commodity: Cash Trading and Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second MFRE seminar of this academic year will be presenting <strong>Nima Salmani, Director of Lyft Commodity Trading<\/strong>.\u00a0Nima will give<strong><em>\u00a0an introduction to commodity trading in the agricultural sector.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Students are to gain an insight into the practice of purchasing, selling, and moving the physical commodity from a practitioner\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the event details in the link\u00a0below, as well our event\u00a0poster. Please share as you deem appropriate!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/lyft-commodity-cash-trading-and-opportunities\">https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/lyft-commodity-cash-trading-and-opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom Link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday, September 15, 2020 &#8211; 17:45<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/j\/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09\">https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/j\/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meeting ID: 631 9889 5621<\/li>\n<li>Passcode: 521521<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Nima Salmani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nima has been involved in the North American agricultural commodity trade for years. He managed the Western Canadian market primarily, focusing on feed commodities, position trading, and mentoring\/managing junior traders. For Lyft Commodity, he continues in those roles as Director and Founder while exploring new markets in different commodities and regions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next to his trading activities, he consults on negotiation matters across cultures internal, as well as external, to private and public organizations. His experience includes new client acquisition in the private banking and estate planning sectors as well as projects for the public on a municipal and federal level in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second MFRE seminar of this academic year will be presenting Nima Salmani, Director of Lyft Commodity Trading.\u00a0Nima will give\u00a0an introduction to commodity trading in the agricultural sector.\u00a0Students are to gain an insight into the practice of purchasing, selling, and moving the physical commodity from a practitioner\u2019s point of view. You can find the event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}