LOMA 357 — Institutional Investing: Principles and Practices
LOMA 357 provides an understanding of the investment regulatory environment and investing for life insurance companies and similar institutions. This course takes investments out of the black box! You’ll learn about investment returns and risks, investment performance, and fund options for retirement products and other products with fund options.
Course Objectives
Understand the movement of funds into, and out of, financial services companies.
Describe the objectives of solvency regulation and market conduct regulation, including transparency, fiduciary standards, suitability requirements, disclosure regulations, and privacy protection requirements; explain how companies can proactively manage the risk of changing regulatory requirements and standards.
Recognize potentially unethical or illegal practices that the investment function must guard against, including insider trading, front running, late trading, market timing, soft-dollar arrangements, collusion, theft, fraud, and Ponzi schemes.
Describe the purpose of attribution analysis, explaining the significance of sector selection, security selection, portfolio concentration, momentum, and unexplained residual return, and understand how the results of attribution analysis are used in portfolio analysis.
Describe the investment attributes of structured debt securities, including asset-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations, and the process a loan originator follows to create structured debt securities.
Describe private equity and distinguish among different types of private equity investments, including venture capital funds, leveraged buyout funds, mezzanine debt funds, and distressed debt funds.
Remarks
We only offer this course in English e-book with self proctored exam.
Student must complete this course within 6 months after enrollment.
Estimated study hours： 30 hours
Relevant LOMA professional qualifications
This course shall form part of the following professional qualifications:
