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This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the principles of fund manager search and selection as it relates to identifying quality managed investments for possible inclusion in portfolios.

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the features, uses and applications of different types of managed investment vehicles.

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the theory and application of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

Now in its 19th year, Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference has gained a reputation as THE portfolio construction strategies conference of the year. This year's theme is "It's a whole new world!". Covid-19 is disrupting societies, economies, and markets around the world like no other crisis since World War II. Strategies Conference 2020 will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking as we debate the contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies that will help us build better quality investor portfolios in a whole new world!

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of portfolio management, specifically in relation to how portfolios are designed and measured.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

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These two research papers present insights into how advisers can better assess and guide how clients think about and structure goals - including savings goals.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

In the last two weeks, very important data on the US economy and corporate earnings have been released. These depressing data are as we had predicted. It remains true that the S&P 500 should drop by 35% from its 1 January level.

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the statistics used to describe and analyse the risk and return characteristics of securities and portfolios.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Humans categorise and form stories about their world - including their financial lives. Two recent papers emphasise the implications of mental accounting, particularly for any investment professional in a client-facing role.

The performance of stock markets during the coronavirus pandemic seems to defy logic - until one considers possible explanations based on crowd psychology.

We are at the half way mark for 2020, and every fibre of my being tells me that the next six months will see many more extraordinary events. Covid-19 can be seen as the great accelerant, or amplifier.

The impact of Covid-19 and the resulting massive worldwide government fiscal response to the crisis has sparked new discussion about the risk of an upsurge in inflation - or deflation. This is not a trivial debate.

One of the touted benefits of hedge funds is that they provide returns that are largely uncorrelated with other risky assets. In practice, hedge funds returns are highly correlated to equity markets during downturns - when it matters.

In most emerging and developing countries, COVID-19 is causing an economic hurricane, the worst crisis the Bretton Woods institutions have experienced in 76 years. Their response so far has been both admirably fast and utterly inadequate.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.