Professional Standards and Ethics

• Professionalism

• Integrity of Capital Markets

• Duties to Clients

• Duties to Employers

• Investment Analysis, Recommendations, and Actions

•­ Conflicts of Interest

Introduction to Alternative

Investments

• What Is an Alternative Investment?

• The Environment of Alternative Investments

• Quantitative Foundations

• Statistical Foundations

• Measures of Risk and Performance

• Foundations of Financial Economics

• Benchmarking and Performance Attribution

• Alpha, Beta, and Hypothesis Testing

• Regression, Multivariate, and Nonlinear Methods

Real Assets

• Natural Resources and Land

• Commodity Forward Pricing

• Commodities: Applications and Evidence

• Operationally-Intensive Real Assets

• Liquid and Fixed-Income Real Estate

• Real Estate Equity Investments

Risk Management and

Portfolio Management

• Cases in Tail Events

• Investment Process, Operations, and Risk

• Due Diligence of Fund Managers

• Portfolio Management, Alpha, and Beta