RSE4 Investments – Portfolio Construction

Course overview

PDUs 5 SFPA
Course type Online course
Duration 5 h
Price $95.00 plus taxes

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Description

This course covers essential concepts and methods for constructing and managing portfolios for retail clients. You will learn asset allocation strategies, risk and return measurement, modern portfolio theory, and asset pricing models. The training also explores active and passive management approaches, sector rotation, growth and value investing, and methods for optimizing performance while managing investment risks.

Offered online, this course is a key step toward success on the CIRO Retail Securities Exam.

The content is currently available for online reading, allowing you to start preparing right away. An enhanced interactive format is expected to be available by the fall.

Activity recognition

FP Canada: 5 Financial Planning CE

Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply principles of asset allocation, tactical and strategic rebalancing, and stock selection strategies.
  • Identify and evaluate different types of investment risks, including interest rate, liquidity, and capital risks.
  • Use risk measures such as beta, standard deviation, and multi‑factor analysis to assess portfolios.
  • Apply risk management strategies, including diversification and hedging, and assess the risks of leveraged investment strategies.
  • Apply asset pricing models to estimate expected returns and risk.
  • Understand portfolio construction concepts, including modern portfolio theory and efficient diversification.
  • Analyze active portfolio management techniques including top‑down, bottom‑up, sector rotation, growth, and value investing.
  • Analyze passive portfolio management techniques for equities and fixed income, including indexing and duration management.

Key competencies

By taking this course, you will develop essential expertise in the following 2 areas of financial planning:

  1. Investment
  2. Finance

Who should attend

This course is intended for professionals seeking to advance their knowledge of portfolio construction, master allocation and risk management strategies, and provide informed, compliant investment recommendations.

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Course program

In this training, you will explore:

  • Asset allocation: tactical and strategic approaches, allocation models
  • Rebalancing: frequency, triggers, mechanical and discretionary methods
  • Investment risks: interest rate, credit, liquidity, volatility, concentration
  • Risk measures: beta, standard deviation, correlation, multi‑factor models
  • Modern portfolio theory: efficient frontier, optimal diversification
  • Asset pricing models: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), factor models
  • Active management: top‑down, bottom‑up, sector rotation, growth vs. value styles
  • Passive management: indexing, replication, duration management for fixed income
  • Portfolio optimization: expected return, risk, constraints, client objectives

Summary

This training provides a comprehensive understanding of portfolio construction and is essential for professionals preparing for CIRO’s Retail Securities Exam.

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