International Certificate in Wealth and Investment Management

About the Course

Investors have a wide range of opportunities to invest directly or indirectly. Achieving the best spread of investing in different asset classes requires significant knowledge and information about various alternatives. The core of wealth and investment management is the ability and competencies to be professionally equipped to source and interpret qualitative and quantitative data in a timely fashion. The various financial theories developed over the years have had a pronounced effect on the construction of the investment portfolio and should be clearly understood. Building your capabilities to determine your client's needs and assess their risk appetites are the main aspects of providing the best financial instruments that fit their goals.

This 5-day International Certificate in Wealth and Investment Management training course will give a wide range of features for financial instruments with their inherent risk and return profiles available to investors who require professional advice and expert knowledge to help them decide the one which would best suit them. The art of combining risks that surround investors and how to be controlled, whether systematic, unsystematic, high, or low, can create wealth only through managing a well-diversified portfolio to provide the needed results. Techniques that combine different financial instruments to get a high return and low risks are deeply explained with various portfolio theories which guide wealth and investment managers and investors to make the right investment decisions through fundamental and technical analysis. Recent trends and developments in the financial markets will also be identified.

Core Objectives

This training course will provide the delegates with the best practices and inherent information supported by applying concepts, tools, and cases that build and enhance knowledge and competencies for delegates to prepare professionals and practitioners in the field of wealth and investment management to understand theories and practices techniques toward continuing professional development.

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Know the overview of the financial services industry
• Understand the different types of asset classes
• Clarify the different types of risks and how they can be mitigated effectively
• Analyse the various financial decisions using different techniques from different perspectives
• Demonstrate the role of investment managers in constructing the perfect portfolio to create value
• Enhance the skills of wealth and investment managers to determine the needs of their clients
• Incorporate new practices in the investment decision to develop an appropriate model for the trade-off process
• Gain insights about the essential regulatory role in shaping wealth and investment strategies and their main impact
• Describe financial instruments needed to be constructed to provide the required support for different client needs
• Apply the recent methods & best practices of incorporating theories with practices into wealth management & investment model

Training Approach

This training course will utilise various proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. It includes a fast-paced, highly participative event incorporating case studies, current affairs with relevant video material, and group work so the delegates can immediately put what they have learned into practice.

The Attendees

This training course helps any individual who intends to invest in general or any financial institution, in particular, to benefit from improved employee skills and core competencies with the best practices in the concept of wealth and investment management by ensuring them to be better qualified on applying an idea with the most recent tools, methodologies & techniques creating value for themselves, stakeholders and their organisation.

Likewise, it will be valuable to the professionals but not limited to the following:

• Senior Levels Personnel responsible for investment decision making
• Finance Personnel that are interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate the investment concept in their decisions 
• Corporate Managers & Leaders who wish to enhance with the recent practices applied in the field
• Fund Managers & Practitioners who wish to enhance and be well informed with the recent practices applied in the field
• Senior Financial Services Professionals who are responsible for making decisions and need enhancing skills in investment and are aware of the new trends and best practices globally applied
• Anyone who wants to learn wealth and investment management theories and best practices with the essential tools, strategies, and techniques to be well

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: FINANCIAL SERVICES PURPOSE AND ITS MAIN PARTICIPANTS

• Purpose and Structure of the Financial Services Industry
• Prominent Players of Institutions and Organisations
• The Basic Roles of Wealth Managers
• The Intermediation Role and Fund Flows of an Economy in the Economic Cycle
• Differentiate between the Concepts of National Income and Gross Domestic Product
• International Trade and the Balance of Payment
• Role of Regulators and Usage of Macroeconomic Theory and Tools
• Financial Institutions and their Roles

DAY TWO: ASSET CLASSES

• Collective Investment Concept and Features
• The Basic Benefits of Collective Investment for Investors
• Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS)
• Measuring Techniques of Performance for Various Investment Funds
• Money Market Instruments
• Bonds, Equities, Properties, Derivatives & Commodities

DAY THREE: FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS

• Concept of Fiduciary: Main Duties and Responsibilities
• Determining the Client Needs: Providing the best advice while applying the interest rule and its implications
• Explain how to disclose material information about the recommended investment
• Conflicts of Interest Concept and its Significance
• Evaluating investment objectives and best strategy to the identified risk tolerance and the impact on investment decision 
• Identifying the Tax Position of the Client

DAY FOUR: INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

• Concept of Time Value of Money
• Differentiate between Simple and Compound Interest
• Calculating Future Value for Lumpsums: Regular Payments, Annuities & Perpetuities
• Oversights on the Fundamental and Technical Analysis & Demonstrating the Main Differences
• Methodologies for Calculating Yields and Ratios
• Different Investment Valuation Ratios with Application

DAY FIVE: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

• The Five Theories of Portfolio Construction
• Defining the Investment Strategies: Active and Passive Strategies
• How to use various asset classes within a portfolio?
• Identifying the use of funds as a part of an investment strategy
• Performance in Terms of Diversion from the Benchmark