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LM01 Alternative Investment Features, Methods, and Structures.
LM01 Categories, Characteristics, and Compensation Structures of Alternative Investments
LM01 Corporate Structures and Ownership
LM01 Derivative Instrument and Derivative Market Features
LM01 Derivative Instrument and Derivative Market Features.
LM01 Ethics and Trust in the Investment Profession
LM01 Ethics and Trust in the Investment Profession.
LM01 Fixed-Income Instrument Features.
LM01 Fixed-Income Securities: Defining Elements
LM01 Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
LM01 Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis.
LM01 Market Organization & Structure.
LM01 Market Organization and Structure
LM01 Organizational Forms, Corporate Issuer Features, and Ownership.
LM01 Portfolio Management Overview
LM01 Portfolio Management: An Overview.
LM01 Rates and Returns.
LM01 The Firm & Market Structures.
LM01 Time Value of Money
LM01 Topics in Demand and Supply Analysis
LM02 Alternative Investment Performance and Returns.
LM02 Analyzing Income Statements.
LM02 Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct Profession
LM02 Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.
LM02 Financial Reporting Standards
LM02 Fixed Income Markets - Issuance Trading and Funding
LM02 Fixed-Income Cash Flows and Types.
LM02 Forward Commitment and Contingent Claim Features and Instruments
LM02 Forward Commitment and Contingent Claim Features and Instruments.
LM02 Introduction to Corporate Governance and Other ESG Considerations
LM02 Investors and Other Stakeholders.
LM02 Organizing, Visualizing, and Describing Data
LM02 Performance Calculation and Appraisal of Alternative Investments
LM02 Portfolio Risk & Return: Part I.
LM02 Portfolio Risk and Return Part I
LM02 Security Market Indexes
LM02 Security Market Indexes.
LM02 The Firm and Market Structures
LM02 Time Value of Money in Finance.
LM02 Understanding Business Cycles.
LM03 Aggregate Output, Prices and Economic Growth
LM03 Analyzing Balance Sheets.
LM03 Business Models & Risks
LM03 Corporate Governance: Conflicts, Mechanisms, Risks, and Benefits.
LM03 Derivative Benefits, Risks, and Issuer and Investor Uses
LM03 Derivative Benefits, Risks, and Issuer and Investor Uses.
LM03 Fiscal Policy.
LM03 Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading.
LM03 Guidance for Standards I-VII
LM03 Guidance for Standards I–VII.
LM03 Introduction to Fixed Income Valuation
LM03 Investments in Private Capital: Equity and Debt.
LM03 Market Efficiency
LM03 Market Efficiency.
LM03 Portfolio Risk & Return: Part II.
LM03 Portfolio Risk and Return Part II
LM03 Private Capital, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and Hedge Funds
LM03 Probability Concepts
LM03 Statistical Measures of Asset Returns.
LM03 Understanding Income Statements
LM04 An Introduction to Asset-Backed Securities
LM04 Analyzing Statements of Cash Flows I.
LM04 Arbitrage, Replication, and the Cost of Carry in Pricing Derivatives
LM04 Arbitrage, Replication, and the Cost of Carry in Pricing Derivatives.
LM04 Basics of Portfolio Planning & Construction
LM04 Basics of Portfolio Planning and Construction.
LM04 Capital Investments
LM04 Common Probability Distributions
LM04 Fixed-Income Markets for Corporate Issuers.
LM04 Introduction to the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
LM04 Introduction to the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS).
LM04 Monetary Policy.
LM04 Overview of Equity Securities
LM04 Overview of Equity Securities.
LM04 Probability Trees and Conditional Expectations.
LM04 Real Estate and Infrastructure.
LM04 Understanding Balance Sheets
LM04 Understanding Business Cycles
LM04 Working Capital and Liquidity.
LM05 Analyzing Statements of Cash Flows II.
LM05 Capital Investments and Capital Allocation.
LM05 Company Analysis: Past and Present.
LM05 Fixed-Income Markets for Government Issuers.
LM05 Introduction to Geopolitics.
LM05 Introduction to Industry and Company Analysis
LM05 Monetary and Fiscal Policy
LM05 Natural Resources.
LM05 Portfolio Mathematics.
LM05 Pricing and Valuation of Forward Contracts and for an Underlying with Varying Maturities
LM05 Pricing and Valuation of Forward Contracts.
LM05 Sampling and Estimation
LM05 The Behavioral Biases of Individuals
LM05 The Behavioral Biases of Individuals.
LM05 Understanding Cash Flow Statements
LM05 Understanding Fixed-Income Risk and Return
LM05 Working Capital & Liquidity
LM06 Analysis of Inventories.
LM06 Capital Structure.
LM06 Cost of Capital-Foundational Topics
LM06 Equity Valuation: Concepts and Basic Tools
LM06 Financial Analysis Techniques
LM06 Fixed-Income Bond Valuation: Prices and Yields.
LM06 Fundamentals of Credit Analysis
LM06 Hedge Funds.
LM06 Hypothesis Testing
LM06 Industry and Competitive Analysis.
LM06 International Trade.
LM06 Introduction to Geopolitics
LM06 Introduction to Risk Management
LM06 Introduction to Risk Management.
LM06 Pricing and Valuation of Futures Contracts
LM06 Pricing and Valuation of Futures Contracts.
LM06 Simulation Methods.
LM07 Analysis of Long-Term Assets.
LM07 Business Models.
LM07 Capital Flows and the FX Market.
LM07 Capital Structure
LM07 Company Analysis: Forecasting.
LM07 Estimation and Inference.
LM07 International Trade and Capital Flows
LM07 Introduction to Digital Assets.
LM07 Introduction to Linear Regression
LM07 Inventories
LM07 Pricing and Valuation of Interest Rate and Other Swaps.
LM07 Pricing and Valuation of Interest Rates and Other Swaps
LM07 Technical Analysis
LM07 Yield and Yield Spread Measures for Fixed-Rate Bonds.
LM08 Currency Exchange Rates
LM08 Equity Valuation: Concepts and Basic Tools.
LM08 Exchange Rate Calculations.
LM08 Fintech in Investment Management
LM08 Hypothesis Testing.
LM08 Long Lived Assets
LM08 Measures of Leverage
LM08 Pricing and Valuation of Options
LM08 Pricing and Valuation of Options.
LM08 Topics in Long-Term Liabilities and Equity.
LM08 Yield and Yield Spread Measures for Floating-Rate Instruments.
LM09 Analysis of Income Taxes.
LM09 Income Taxes
LM09 Option Replication Using Put-Call Parity
LM09 Option Replication Using Put–Call Parity.
LM09 Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests of Independence.
LM09 The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Spot, Par, and Forward Curves.
LM10 Financial Reporting Quality.
LM10 Interest Rate Risk and Return.
LM10 Non-current (Long-Term) Liabilities
LM10 Simple Linear Regression.
LM10 Valuing a Derivative Using a One-Period Binomial Model
LM10 Valuing a Derivative Using a One-Period Binomial Model.
LM11 Financial Analysis Techniques.
LM11 Financial Reporting Quality
LM11 Introduction to Big Data Techniques.
LM11 Yield-Based Bond Duration Measures and Properties.
LM12 Applications of Financial Statement Analysis
LM12 Introduction to Financial Statement Modeling.
LM12 Yield-Based Bond Convexity and Portfolio Properties.
LM13 Curve-Based and Empirical Fixed-Income Risk Measures.
LM14 Credit Risk.
LM15 Credit Analysis for Government Issuers.
LM16 Credit Analysis for Corporate Issuers.
LM17 Fixed-Income Securitization.
LM18 Asset-Backed Security (ABS) Instrument and Market Features.
LM19 Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) Instrument and Market Features.
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Concept 100: Overview of GIPS

GIPS stands for ‘Global Investment Performance Standards’. Why were the GIPS standards created? In the past, investment performance presentations were misleading. Questions about the accuracy and credibility of data made comparisons among different investment firms difficult. Common misleading practices included: Representative accounts: Using only the best performing portfolios to represent the firm’s overall performance. Survivorship bias: Excluding accounts that performed poorly and were consequently terminated. Varying time periods: Selecting time periods during which the fund had exceptional performance. The GIPS standards were created to prevent misrepresentation of performance. They establish an industry-wide, standard approach for calculation and presentation of investment… Read More

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Concept 101: Construction and Purpose of Composites

GIPS standards require the use of composites. A composite is formed by grouping portfolios that represent a similar investment strategy, objective or mandate. For example, if you are managing 100 accounts and one of your strategies is to invest in large cap value stocks, and you use this strategy for 70 accounts. Then these 70 accounts will form one composite. Similarly, if you have another strategy to invest in small cap growth stocks; and you use this strategy for the remaining 30 accounts. Then these 30 accounts will form another composite. You will have to report performances of these two… Read More

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