Strategic Investment Management

• Financial Accounting Team Members seeking deeper insights into investment strategies.
• Financial Planning and Budgeting Professionals looking to enhance their investment acumen.
• Strategic Planning and Corporate Teams involved in high-level decision-making for investments.
• Corporate Communication and Investor Relations Professionals who need to better understand investment-related matters.
• Investment Analysts and Advisors looking to refine their investment strategies.
• Traders and Investors looking to broaden their investment horizons and strategies.

Day 1: Investment Environment & Asset Allocation Strategies

• Overview of the current investment landscape and emerging opportunities.
• Understanding the required rate of return and building sustainable investment strategies.
• Analyzing risk and return in investment portfolios.
• Exploring portfolio theory, capital market theory, and asset pricing models.

Day 2: Inefficient Markets & Behavioral Finance

• The Efficient Market Hypothesis and its limitations.
• Understanding market anomalies and their implications.
• Introduction to environmental finance and behavioral finance.
• Equity valuation models and extreme portfolio selection strategies.
• Examining the effects of financial crises and pandemics on market behavior.

Day 3: Financial Derivatives in Investment Management

• Bond pricing and interest rate risk management.
• Introduction to forward, futures, and options contracts.
• Strategies for fixed income portfolio management.
• Exploring passive and active bond management techniques, including matched-funding.
• Using buy-write strategies for enhancing portfolio returns.

Day 4: Portfolio Management & Performance Evaluation

• Passive and active equity portfolio management strategies.
• Implementing top-down and strategic asset allocation processes.
• The use of tactical asset allocation and style investing.
• Balancing value versus growth investing and hedging portfolios.
• Comparing Islamic and conventional fund management strategies.

Day 5: Recent Developments & Personal Finance

• Analyzing recent developments, including Brexit and its financial consequences.
• Understanding multilateral trading systems and their impact on investment.
• Exploring the financial consequences of terrorism and natural disasters.
• Overview of energy markets and their investment potential.
• Understanding personal finance in light of strategic investment management.