Identify the best strategies for managing pension or alternative investment funds and extract the maximum economic return from your financial operations"

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The Postgraduate diploma in Financial Products is taught in a 100% online mode that will enable students to combine their professional and personal obligations with their excellent learning. In addition, its wide variety of textual and multimedia didactic formats will allow you to adapt your study to your academic preferences, fully optimizing your learning.

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Syllabus

This TECH Postgraduate diploma has been created with the aim of preparing students to deal competently with the challenges presented by the field of Financial Products management. Through it, they will develop a set of skills that will prepare them to make top-level decisions in this field of Finance.

Throughout 1,500 hours of instruction, students will work individually and in teams to analyze case studies, allowing them to identify completely real and up-to-date business situations.

This program focuses on deepening investment strategies in fixed-income and variable-income assets or on the state-of-the-art procedures to manage Financial Products. In this way, it will enable professionals to understand this branch of Finance from an innovative, strategic, and global perspective.

All this is with the primary objective of enabling students to achieve excellent managerial skills in this demanding sector. In addition, the program's educational quality will be guaranteed by its first-class didactic contents, its revolutionary academic methodology, and its prestigious teaching staff.

This Postgraduate diploma takes place over 6 months and is divided into 3 modules:

Module 1. Investment in fixed income assets
Module 2. Investment in equity assets
Module 3. Financial Products

Where, When and How is it Taught?

TECH offers the possibility of developing this Postgraduate diploma in Financial Products completely online. Throughout the 6 months of the educational program, you will be able to access all the contents of this program at any time, allowing you to self-manage your study time.

Module 1. Investment in fixed income assets 

1.1. Fixed Income Assets 

1.1.1. Fixed Income Asset Features 
1.1.2. Fixed Income Types 
1.1.3. Key Concepts in Fixed Income 

1.1.3.1. Nominal value, issue price, redemption price, coupon, zero coupon issue 

1.2. Fixed Income Asset Valuation 

1.2.1. Profitability Analysis 
1.2.2. Risks Associated with Fixed Income Assets 
1.2.3. Risk premium

1.3. Time Structure of Interest Rates 

1.3.1. Time Structure of Interest Rates 
1.3.2. Yield curve (zero coupon) 
1.3.3. Interest rate measurement: duration sensitivity and convexity 
1.3.4. Public Debt Market. International Perspective

1.4. Primary market 

1.4.1. Secondary market 
1.4.2. Type of assets: bonds and debentures 
1.4.3. Market Members

1.5. Private debt or corporate debt markets. International Perspective

1.5.1. Private debt or corporate debt markets 
1.5.2. Organization of markets 
1.5.3. Products traded 

1.6. Primary Fixed Income Market 

1.6.1. Characteristics of the asset issue 
1.6.2. Process for issuing new fixed-income securities 
1.6.3. Issuance by public offering and auction 

1.7. Secondary Fixed Income Market 

1.7.1. Fixed Income Secondary Market 
1.7.2. Private debt– Public debt markets 
1.7.3. Short-term, medium-term, and long-term emissions

1.8. Credit rating and rating 

1.8.1. Measuring default risk 
1.8.2. Rating Agencies 
1.8.3. Credit rating process 

1.9. Fixed Income Portfolio Management

1.9.1. Investment strategy active management 
1.9.2. Investment strategy Liabilities management 
1.9.3. Liquidity and other important risks in fixed income management 

1.10. Investor profile 

1.10.1. Investor profile 
1.10.2. At Risk Profiles 
1.10.3. Type of Fixed Income investor

Module 2. Investment in equity assets

2.1. Initial Public Offering Process. Key Aspects 

2.1.1. Characteristics of Variable Income Assets
2.1.2. Market Members 
2.1.3. Requirements 
2.1.4. Stock Exchange Operations: IPO, takeover bid, capital increase, and capital reduction 
2.1.5. Market operation: hours of operation 
2.1.6. Stock Market Sectors 

2.2. Advantages of Going Public  

2.2.1. Company Financing 
2.2.2. Objective Assessment 
2.2.3. Shareholder Liquidity 
2.2.4. Prestige 

2.3. Stock Markets

2.3.1. Contracting and settlement systems
2.3.2. Stock Market Operations 
2.3.3. Order Types and Fixing Modality 
2.3.4. Trading Platforms 

2.4. International Equity Indices. Developed Countries 

2.4.1. Features
2.4.2. European Indices 
2.4.3. US Indices 
2.4.4. Global Indices 

2.5. International Equity Indices. Emerging Countries

2.5.1. Asian Indices 
2.5.2. Latin American Indices 
2.5.3. Other Indices 
2.5.4. ADRs

2.6. Trading Platforms

2.6.1. Main Trading Platforms 
2.6.2. Requirements of Trading Platforms 
2.6.3. Classification of Platforms according to Assets 
2.6.4. Brokers 

2.7. Market Quality Measures 

2.7.1. Liquidity 
2.7.2. Volatility 
2.7.3. Efficiency 

2.8. Investment Schools I. Value Investors

2.8.1. Value Investing 
2.8.2. Value and price: A Fundamental Distinction 
2.8.3. Value Investors

2.9. Investment Schools II. Growth and Quality Investing 

2.9.1. Growth Investing
2.9.2. Quality Investing
2.9.3. Inverters

2.10. Investment Decisions 

2.10.1. Intrinsic valuation: Discounted Cash Flows 
2.10.2. Relative valuation: Comparable Multiples 
2.10.3. Attractively priced company quotation

Module 3. Financial Products

3.1. Collective Investment 

3.1.1. Actors involved 
3.1.2. Types of commissions  
3.1.3. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Collective Investment 

3.2. Investment Funds 

3.2.1. Classification of Investment Funds 
3.2.2. Valuation and performance of investment funds 
3.2.3. Management Styles 
3.2.4. Analysis and selection of investment funds

3.3. Other investment vehicles  

3.3.1. SICAVS 
3.3.2. Real estate investment vehicles 
3.3.3. ETFs

3.4. Alternative investment funds 

3.4.1. Concept of Alternative Management 
3.4.2. Hedge Funds 
3.4.3. Classification of Hedge Funds 
3.4.4. Hedge Fund Investment Strategies

3.5. Insurance Concept 

3.5.1. Relevant factors of the insurance contract 
3.5.2. Procedure of an Insurance Contract 
3.5.3. Modalities of Insurance Contracts

3.6. Insurance Classification 

3.6.1. Personal Insurance 
3.6.2. Damage Insurance 
3.6.3. Property Insurance 
3.6.4. Combined insurance

3.7. Pension Plans and Funds 

3.7.1. Concept and Nature of Pension Plans 
3.7.2. Pension Funds 
3.7.3. Contingencies covered 
3.7.4. Modalities for collecting the benefit 
3.7.5. Tax incentives

3.8. Retirement planning and personal coverage

3.8.1. Public and private pension systems
3.8.2. Calculation of the percentage of coverage
3.8.3. Saving alternatives
3.8.4. Selection of personal coverages

3.9. Investment in Banking Products 

3.9.1. Asset products 
3.9.2. Liability Products 
3.9.3. Banking services

3.10. Other alternative investments 

3.10.1. Venture Capital 
3.10.2. Commodity-Linked Products 
3.10.3. Tangible goods

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