Course description
Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, and Hedge Funds are all considered alternative investment forms. They have been increasingly popular from the previous decade. These investments benefit new start-ups seeking financial investment to grow or expand their services. What makes these investments peculiar is their structure and the more convenience they offer business owners compared to traditional investments.
What does private equity mean?
Private equity means having ownership or part of a company that is not publicly traded. In most cases, the ownership of these privately held companies can be linked to individuals with a high net worth or firms that invest in such companies. Private equity aims to invest in companies with tremendous growth potential and can benefit from the private equity to transform or expand the business. Although limited in number, regulations are guiding private equity practice.
How does venture capital investment work?
Like other forms of alternative investments, venture capital investment is available to businesses that do not have access to the traditional forms of investment but have the potential to turn around for long-term growth. Venture capital has the potential for high returns, but it also carries high risk since its model differs from other forms of investment.
The knowledge gained from The Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, and Hedge Funds Certification Course by Rcademy will provide students with the tools they need to analyze the asset allocation strategies of a specific private equity, hedge fund, or venture capital company. They will be able to evaluate risk scenarios and capital provider screening procedures, as well as discover the benefits and drawbacks of the early-stage individual (angel) investors vs venture capitalists or private equity companies. Anyone serious about a career in the investing industry should take this course.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, and Hedge Funds Certification Course by Rcademy aims to assist participants in achieving the following objectives at the end of the learning process:
- Consider the asset mix of a typical venture capital firm, hedge fund, or private equity firm
- Learn the advantages and disadvantages of the early-stage individual (angel) investors vs venture capitalists or private equity firms
- Analyse risk situations and capital provider screening methods
- Distinguish the primarily targeted investment possibilities available to different companies
- Describe the critical financial intermediary functions performed by these companies in the global economy
- Create a profile for each of these four capital sources based on examination and analysis
- Create an executive summary profile for a modern venture capital business, hedge fund, private equity firm, or angel network association
- Choose the providers that are the greatest fit for an organization, initiatives, projects, or product-service development concerning firm and industry
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Alternative Investing
- Overview of alternative investment
– Definition of alternative investment
– Origin of alternative investment - Characteristics of alternative investment
- Types of alternative investment
– Private Equity
– Venture Capital
– Angel Investing
– Hedge Funds
Module 2: Traditional Debt Finance and Financing Instruments
- Traditional lending technologies
- Financial risk mitigation in traditional lending
- Financial instruments
- Asset-based finance
– Asset-based lending
– Purchase order finance
– Warehouse receipts
– Leasing - Alternative debt
– Corporate bonds
– Covered bonds - Ecology of alternative investments
– Main contributors
– Main elements
– Top regulations
Module 3: Introduction to Private Equity
- Definition of Private Equity
- Types of Private Equity
– Venture Capital
– Leveraged Buyouts - Debt security
- Private Equity Access
- Fund fees
- Challenges of internal returns
- J-curve
- Private Equity returns
Module 4: Introduction to Hedge Funds
- Overview of Hedge Funds
- Structure of Hedge Funds
- Hedge Fund Liquidity
- Hedge Funds investments
- Governance of Hedge Funds
Module 5: Hedge Fund Strategies
- Classification of Hedge Fund Strategy
- Macro Hedge Funds
– Managed futures funds - Event-driven Hedge Funds
- Relative value funds
- Equity Hedge Funds
Module 6: Strategies for Assessing Multiple Hedge Funds
- Diversification of strategies
- Numerous single Hedge Funds
– Due diligence - Direct investment program
- Netting of investment fees
- Multi-strategy funds
– Funds of funds - Hedge Fund Indexes
Module 7: Real Assets
- Introduction to real assets
– Key attributes of real assets - Access to real assets
- Valuation of real assets
– Smoothed returns - Forms of real assets
– Farmland
– Timber
– Infrastructure
– Intellectual property
Module 8: Private Real Estate and Illiquidity
- Types of private real estate
- Real estate valuation
– Various approaches
– Appraisals
– Market values - Challenges of illiquidity
- Illiquidity of private investments
– Economic reasoning - Measure of performance
– Internal rate of return - Allocations to a private estate
- Pooled access to direct real estate
Module 9: Financial Derivatives
- Motivations for using derivatives
- Structured products
- Volatile products
- Aggregation of risks
- Portfolio level
Module 10: Tail Risk
- Introduction to tail risk
- The tail risk from the investments strategy
- The tail risk from investments strategy drift
- The tail risk from rogue traders
- The tail risk from operational failure
- The tail risk from fraud
Module 11: Investment Process, Operations and Due Diligence
- Introduction to the investment process
– Non-investment process - Due diligence
- Risk alert for alternative investment
- Industry trends in due diligence
- Warning indicators and signals
- Compliance with regulations
Module 12: Returns and Risk
- Introduction to Returns and Risk
– Measurement of distributions - Measures of risk
- Risk vs returns
- Investment monitoring and gaming
Course delivery details
There is a constant need for organizations and businesses to explore various means of investments to expand or grow businesses. This course is essential to professionals who either work in the investment company or serve as personnel for businesses that are potential beneficiaries of such investments. To ensure that the objectives of this course are achieved, the course will be presented using effective and proven methodologies to engage participants in this course.
Rcademy focuses on using practical forms of teaching and learning, especially modern tools of learning. Participants actively learn using various methodologies such as case studies, presentations, scenarios, etc. The audio-visual learning model is also employed to ensure participants experience a fully interactive course.
This essential course is delivered by experts and professionals who are vast and skilled in these investment forms. The course modules are carefully curated and optimized to meet the course demand of the learners. Each topic covers various critical components needed by any professional attempting to get into the alternative investment world.
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