The CIDA program’s “Body Of Knowledge” includes but is not limited to:

• The Investment Process: Trade Processing, Settlement and Clearance
• The Short-Term Market: T-Bills, Commercial Paper, Banker’s Acceptance, CDs, Eurodollars, and Agencies.
• Securities in the Capital Markets: Fixed Income Securities: Treasuries, Corporate Bonds, Zero-Coupon Bonds, Asset-Backed, Mortgage-Backed Securities, and Municipals.
• Equities: Preferred, Common, Equity-Linked Notes
• The Alternative Investment Market: Private Equity, Private Credit, Hedge Funds, Diversifying Strategies
• Real Estate Investments: Direct and Comingled Real Estate Investments.
• The Importance of Auditing Derivatives: What’s Going Wrong? Derivative Debacles of the Past, Hedging vs. Speculation, Derivative Risk Management, What’s Going Right?
• Managing the Cash: Reasons to Hold Cash in the Portfolio, Best Practices for “Economizing” Cash, Internal Controls in the Cash Management Process
• The Forward and Futures Contracts: Mechanics, Why Forwards rather than Futures, Why Futures rather than Forwards, Characteristics of Exchange-Traded Contracts, The Mechanics of Margin, Using Futures to Hedge Fair Market Value
• Fundamentals of Options: Option Strategies and Terminology, Analyzing the Option Premium, Types of Options, Caps and Floors.
• SWAP Mechanics and Terminology: SWAP Examples, Foreign Currency Hedging with SWAPS, SWAP Examples, SWAPTIONS
• Back office and Reporting: Back Office Systems and Controls, Understanding the Pitfalls of Investment Reporting
• The Front Office: The Portfolio Management Process, Auditing Broker Activity, Auditing Soft Dollar Activity
• The Middle Office: Model Verifications, Price Verifications, Understanding Value-at -Risk
• Significance of the Asset and Liability Management (ALM) Function: Popular Methods of ALM, Duration, Stress Testing
• Management Risk: Responsibilities, Policies and Procedures, Audit Considerations
• Market Risk: VAR, Model Risk, Price Risk, Liquidity Risk, Audit Considerations
• Counterparty Risk: Master Agreements, Credit Enhancements, Credit Value-At-Risk, Audit Considerations
• Legal Risk: Netting Enforceability, Foreign Counterparties, Audit Considerations
• Operational Risk: Audit Considerations, Compliance in the Investment Infrastructure, Accounting for Investments & Derivatives
• Emerging Issues in the Investment Markets (limited): Recent investment related case studies, economic considerations, cyber security, new investment products introduced to the markets.

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