CAIA Charter - Level 2 Prep Course

Asset Allocation and Institutional
Investors
• Asset Allocation Processes and the Mean-Variance
Model
• Tactical Asset Allocation, Mean-Variance
Extensions, Risk Budgeting, Risk Parity, and
Factor Investing
• The Endowment Model
• Pension Fund Portfolio Management
• Sovereign Wealth Funds
• The Family Office Model
Private Equity
• Private Equity Market Structure
• Private Equity Benchmarking
• Fund Manager Selection and Monitoring
• Private Equity Operational Due Diligence
• Private Equity Investment Process and Portfolio
Management
• Measuring Private Equity Risk
• The Management of Liquidity
Real Assets
• Real Estate as an Investment
• Real Estate Indices and Unsmoothing Techniques
• Investment Styles, Portfolio Allocation, and Real
Estate Derivatives
• Listed Versus Unlisted Real Estate Investments
• International Real Estate Investments
• Infrastructure as an Investment
• Farmland and Timber Investments
• Investing in Intellectual Property
Commodities
• Key Concepts in Commodity Markets
• Allocation to Commodities
• Accessing Commodity Investment
Products
Hedge Funds and Managed
Futures
• Managed Futures
• Investing In CTAs
• Relative Value Strategies
• Hedge Funds - Directional Strategies
• Hedge Funds: Credit Strategies
• Volatility, Correlation, and Dispersion
Products and Strategies
• Hedge Fund Replication
• Funds of Hedge Funds and Multistrategy
Funds
• Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence
Structured Products
• Regulation and Compliance
• Structured Products I - Fixed-income
Derivatives and Asset-backed Securities
• Structured Products II: Insurance-Linked
Products and Hybrid Securities