Study guide

CIMA study guide

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Lessons

  1. Hedge Fund Strategies, Fund-of-Funds & Due D
  2. Investor Eligibility Standards: Accredited I
  3. Private Credit, Direct Lending & Private Mar
  4. Private Equity Lifecycle, Leveraged Buyouts
  5. Macroeconomic Indicators, Business Cycles &
  6. Schools of Economic Thought & Core Economic
  7. Heuristics, Cognitive Biases & Emotional Fal
  8. Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion & Overcoming
  9. Client Profile Discovery: Risk Tolerance, Ca
  10. Investment Policy Statement Formulation & Co
  11. Forwards, Futures Pricing, Basis & Instituti
  12. Option Fundamentals, Put-Call Parity & Black
  13. The Option Greeks & Institutional Option Ove
  14. Swaps, Swaptions, Credit Default Swaps & Der
  15. Relative Valuation Multiples, Residual Incom
  16. Intrinsic Equity Valuation: Dividend Discoun
  17. Equity Factors & Smart Beta Index Constructi
  18. Equity Index Construction Methodologies
  19. Factor Implementation Challenges & Multi-Fac
  20. International Equity Diversification & Corre
  21. ERISA Fiduciary Standards & Conflict of Inte
  22. The Fiduciary Standard, Suitability, Regulat
  23. Fixed Income Instruments, Pricing, Yield Mea
  24. Yield Curve Strategies, Spreads & Credit Ana
  25. Asset-Backed Securities, Credit Enhancement
  26. Duration, Convexity & Immunization Strategie
  27. Mortgage-Backed Securities, Prepayment Risk
  28. Global Capital Markets History, Market Regim
  29. Sovereign Default History, Inflation Regimes
  30. Demographic Forces & Long-Run Economic Growt
  31. Exchange Rate Regimes, Currency Pegs, Dollar
  32. Foreign Exchange Dynamics, Purchasing Power
  33. Global Trade, Balance of Payments & Internat
  34. Investment Implementation Approaches: In-Hou
  35. Manager Search, Selection & Operational Due
  36. Portfolio Monitoring, Performance Reporting
  37. Active vs. Passive Management, Core-Satellit
  38. Strategic Asset Allocation vs. Tactical Asse
  39. Sustainable Investing: SRI, ESG Integration
  40. Technical Analysis: Trend, Supply and Demand
  41. Exchange-Traded Funds, Semi-Transparent Stru
  42. Open-End Mutual Funds & Closed-End Funds: St
  43. Separately Managed Accounts, Unified Managed
  44. Brinson Attribution, Sector/Security Selecti
  45. The Information Ratio & Selecting the Right
  46. Risk-Adjusted Return Measures: Sharpe, M-Squ
  47. Liability-Driven Investing & Goals-Based Wea
  48. Portfolio Rebalancing Triggers, Tax-Aware Co
  49. Arbitrage Pricing Theory, Multifactor & Stat
  50. Capital Allocation, Investor Utility & the P
  51. The Capital Asset Pricing Model, CML versus
  52. Markowitz Portfolio Theory, Mean-Variance Op
  53. The IWI Code of Professional Responsibility:
  54. IWI Disciplinary Rules, the Professional Rev
  55. Commodities, Natural Resources & Inflation H
  56. Digital Assets: Definition, Major Assets, Tr
  57. Real Estate Investment Trusts, Direct Real E
  58. Downside Risk Metrics: Semivariance, Maximum
  59. Stress Testing, Scenario Analysis & Reverse
  60. Value at Risk & Conditional Value at Risk
  61. Descriptive Statistics, Probability Distribu
  62. Sampling, Hypothesis Testing & Regression An
  63. Time Series Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation
  64. Time Value of Money, Cash Flow Discounting &