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Overview of Corporate Actions
Delegates: Staff working in valuations, pricing,
custody or fund accounting roles.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to sources of finance & corporate actions
- Dividends – cash & scrip
- Bond coupons, conversions and capital redemptions
- Bonus issues
- Stock splits & reverse splits
- Rights issues
- Capital buybacks
- Take-overs & mergers
- De-mergers
- Spin-offs
- Effect of corporate actions on valuation of securities
Introduction to the Investment Funds Industry
.Delegates: Staff new to the funds industry.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to the structure of funds
- UCITS v Non-UCITS Funds
- Types of Investors
- Professional & Qualifying Investor funds
- Roles of Counterparties
- Outline of regulations
- Investment & borrowing restrictions
- Role of IFSRA, including reporting & application for
authorisation
Introduction to Portfolio
Management Techniques
Delegates: Staff with an interest in portfolio
management.
Topics covered include:
- Traditional fund strategies
- Alternative investment fund strategies
- Portfolio matching
- Asset selection
- Financial analysis – key ratios
