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  • Economics & Macro
2Method
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  • Behavioural Finance
3Instruments and institutions
  • Banking & Market Infrastructure
  • Fixed Income & Rates
  • Derivatives & Structured Products
4Applied practice
  • Public Equities
  • Transactions & Deals
  • Portfolio Construction
  • Funds & AMCs
  • Private Markets & Alternatives
  • Risk, Treasury & Control
  • AI & Digital Finance
  • Stochastic Calculus & Pricing
  • Wealth & Personal Finance
5Cross-cutting discipline
  • Indian Markets & Regulation
  • Professional Practice

Portfolio Construction & Investment Management

  1. F1

    Portfolio Management Foundations

    What managing a whole rather than a list actually means, and the active choice.

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      Topic 01

      A Model Portfolio Is Not a Separately Managed Account

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  2. F3

    Risk, Return and Diversification

    The theory. Mean-variance, the frontier, the utility function and the ratios.

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      Topic 01

      Risk Tolerance

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      Topic 02

      Risk Capacity: Preference and Limit

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  3. F4

    Asset Allocation and Construction

    The largest decision. Strategic, tactical and dynamic, and how a portfolio is built.

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      Topic 01

      Strategic

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      Topic 02

      Tactical Asset Allocation: The Difference

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      Topic 01

      Rebalancing

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      Topic 02

      Tactical Allocation: Same Trade, Not Same Act

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  4. F5

    Security Selection and Implementation

    Choosing within a class, and what it costs to actually get there.

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      Topic 01

      Factor Investing

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      Topic 02

      Fundamental Investing Compared

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  5. F7

    Portfolio Vehicles and India Governance

    How a portfolio is actually delivered. PMS, SMA, SIF, ETFs and index funds.

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      Topic 01

      Concentrated

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      Topic 02

      Diversified Portfolio: Naming the Base

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      Topic 01

      Portfolio Turnover

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      Topic 02

      Transaction Cost: Act and Price

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      Topic 01

      Mutual Fund

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      Topic 02

      PMS

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      Topic 03

      AIF

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      Topic 04

      SIF: Four Delivery Routes

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      Topic 01

      Mutual Fund

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      Topic 02

      ETF: How Each One Reaches Your Account

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      Topic 01

      Index Fund

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      Topic 02

      ETF: One Rule, Two Ways of Delivering It

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