Risk Management - Alternative Investment Risk Management for Funds

The growing relevance of alternative investments in the financial landscape highlights the necessity to develop tailored risk management approaches that integrate specific investment management expertise, regulatory understanding and financial modelling skills.
This training provides the primary understanding of the specificities and risks of main alternative assets classes, the approaches and methodologies supporting the risk management framework of Alternative Investment Funds.

The objective of the course is to provide participants with a comprehensive theoretical and applied understanding of risk management for Alternative Investment Funds, including:

• Learn the main regulatory, governance, and organizational features of Alternative Investment Fund risk management
• Understand the investment and risk characteristics of alternative investment asset classes (including private equity/venture capital, private debt, hedge funds, real estate and infrastructure)
• Analyze alternative assets through identification, profiling and measuring of risks
• Understand the main processes and methodologies employed within the risk management framework of Alternative Investment Funds

• Introduction: alternative asset classes within investment funds
• Reference regulatory and supervisory frameworks
• Governance and organization of risk management function within an Alternative Investment Fund Manager
• Alternative investment processes and risk considerations in the management of AIFs
• Asset class-specific investment and risks characteristics (PE/VC, HF, PD, RE, Infra, other)
• Risk Management processes for AIFs (risk profiling, leverage, stress testing, reporting)
• Approaches for identification and measurement of main risk types (market, liquidity, credit/counterparty, IR, operational, valuation, sustainability) and alternative investment-specific risk
• Industry and regulatory trends