Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Course

Name: Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Training Course
Availability: InStock

Translate investor objectives and market assumptions into asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk budgets, attribution, and rebalancing decisions.

Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Course

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Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: Madrid, Johannesburg, Cairo, Trabzon, Dubai, Amman and more
Next session: 12 – 16 October 2026, Madrid
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Overview

Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Training Course is a five-day advanced course for investment professionals who leave with a Governed Investment Portfolio Decision Pack. The course connects mandate design, capital-market assumptions, strategic allocation, portfolio construction, risk budgeting, security and manager decisions, implementation, performance attribution, and rebalancing. Participants turn investor objectives and constraints into traceable portfolio choices and oversight rules. Agile Leaders Training Center delivers this course on investment management and portfolio construction.

Who Should Attend

Portfolio management functions responsible for allocation and investment decisions
Investment research functions responsible for assumptions and security evidence
Asset-owner functions responsible for mandates, managers, and oversight
Risk functions responsible for budgets, limits, scenarios, and monitoring
Wealth and treasury functions responsible for governed portfolio outcomes

The course assumes participants already interpret market data, returns, risk measures, and valuation evidence and leaves out introductory personal finance and product sales.

Departments and Industries

The course supports investment management and portfolio construction across institutional and commercial environments.

Investment, treasury, wealth, risk, and finance departments
Asset management, banking, insurance, and securities organizations
Pension, endowment, foundation, and sovereign investment functions
Corporate treasury and institutional reserve-management functions
Investment consulting, research, and manager-oversight functions

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build investment objectives, constraints, and governance rules
Analyze capital-market assumptions and portfolio scenarios
Apply allocation and portfolio-construction methods
Evaluate securities, managers, and implementation choices
Use risk budgets, limits, and rebalancing triggers
Diagnose performance through measurement and attribution

Course Agenda

Day 1: Investment Mandate and Governance

Investor Objective and Constraint Map
Investment Policy Statement Decision Framework
Risk Capacity and Tolerance Assessment Grid
Governance Role and Decision-Right Matrix
Portfolio Benchmark and Success-Criteria Design

Day 2: Assumptions and Asset Allocation

Capital Market Expectation Scenario Set
Risk, Return, and Correlation Estimate Matrix
Strategic Asset Allocation Decision Grid
Mean-Variance Optimization Constraint Review
Liability, Liquidity, and Illiquid-Asset Overlay

Day 3: Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting

Asset-Class and Factor Exposure Map
Diversification and Concentration Diagnostic
Risk Contribution and Risk-Budget Worksheet
Active-Passive Allocation Decision Matrix
Portfolio Stress Scenario and Limit Dashboard

Day 4: Implementation and Performance

Security and Investment Manager Evaluation Scorecard
Portfolio Implementation and Execution Plan
Time-Weighted and Money-Weighted Return Review
Allocation-Selection-Interaction Attribution Model
Monitoring, Drift, and Rebalancing Rulebook

Day 5: Investment Portfolio Practice

Suggested Exercise: Mandate and Policy Challenge
Suggested Exercise: Allocation and Constraint Review
Suggested Exercise: Risk-Budget and Stress-Test Decision
Suggested Exercise: Performance Attribution Briefing
Capstone Exercise: Governed Investment Portfolio Decision Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to convert investor circumstances and market evidence into governed portfolio decisions.

Suggested activity: draft objectives and constraints for an institutional reserve.
Suggested activity: compare allocations under different return and liquidity assumptions.
Suggested activity: diagnose concentration and risk contributions in a multi-asset portfolio.
Suggested activity: explain performance and recommend a rebalancing response.

FAQs

Who suits investment management and portfolio construction training, and what does it assume?

Investment management and portfolio construction training suits portfolio managers, analysts, asset owners, wealth managers, treasury professionals, risk specialists, and governance functions who already interpret market, valuation, return, and risk information.

How does advanced investment management differ from introductory investment training?

Advanced investment management converts objectives and constraints into allocation, construction, risk-budget, implementation, attribution, and rebalancing decisions, while introductory training establishes instrument and market concepts.

What belongs in an investment policy statement?

An investment policy statement records purpose, return and risk objectives, constraints, time horizon, liquidity, permitted assets, allocation ranges, benchmarks, responsibilities, monitoring expectations, and rebalancing or review triggers.

How does risk budgeting improve portfolio construction?

Risk budgeting assigns acceptable risk contributions across assets, strategies, or managers so portfolio choices can be tested against the desired return sources, diversification, limits, and loss tolerance.

How should investment performance attribution inform decisions?

Investment performance attribution should identify allocation, selection, interaction, factor, or manager contributions, reconcile them to total results, distinguish process from noise, and guide review without treating past performance as a forecast.

Conclusion

Participants leave with a Governed Investment Portfolio Decision Pack containing a mandate, assumptions, allocation, construction choices, risk budget, manager scorecard, attribution review, monitoring rules, and rebalancing triggers. The pack changes separate investment opinions into traceable decisions. It supports investment committees, portfolio teams, risk functions, and asset owners throughout the management cycle.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Madrid	Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Johannesburg	Week 42, 2026 18 – 22 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Cairo	Week 43, 2026 19 – 23 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Trabzon	Week 43, 2026 25 – 29 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€6,800
Dubai	Week 44, 2026 26 – 30 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Amman	Week 44, 2026 1 – 5 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Kuala Lumpur	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,200
Chicago	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
Istanbul	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
London	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Baku	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,000
Tokyo	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Seoul	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Geneva	Week 49, 2026 6 – 10 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€6,200
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Bali	Week 50, 2026 13 – 17 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Zoom	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	5 Days	Online	€1,500
Toronto	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
San Diego	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€14,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewInvestment Management and Portfolio Construction Training Course is a five-day advanced course for investment professionals who leave with a Governed Investment Portfolio Decision Pack. The course connects mandate design, capital-market assumptions, strategic allocation, portfolio construction, risk budgeting, security and manager decisions, imple…

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Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Course