Alternative Investments: PE - RE - HF (C6052)

Successful completion of the modules "Financial instruments and markets" (C6050) and "Managing and selling investment products" (C6051) or proof of equivalent certified knowledge.

• Understand private equity investments, their techniques and their characteristics.
• Understand private equity risks and the way they are addressed in practice.
• Understand real estate investments, their techniques and their characteristics and risks.
• Undertstand hedge funds, their principles, investment techniques and strategies.
• Understand how illiquid investments are used in a global portfoilio allocation and how they are managed.
• Introduction to a cash flow based risk approach.

• Introducing alternative investments.
• Private equity management techniques.
• Private equity products.
• Private equity risks.
• Real estate management techniques.
• Real estate products.
• Real estate risks.
• Hedge Fund characteristics.
• Hedge Fund set-up.
• Hedge Fund risks.
• The Yale model - portfolio management.
• The Yale model - risk management.