Skip to main content
Home: Central London for Capacity Building
Finance, Banking & Investment

Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation

A practical professional programme focused on investment strategy & asset allocation, designed to strengthen financial capability, analytical judgement and organisational performance.

Type
Executive
Level
Executive
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation develops a disciplined approach to building investment strategies that align objectives, risk tolerance, time horizon and liquidity requirements.

The programme examines strategic asset allocation, diversification, expected return, portfolio risk, investment constraints and portfolio rebalancing.

Participants learn how asset allocation decisions drive portfolio characteristics and how investment strategies should be reviewed as objectives and market conditions evolve.

Objectives

  • Develop a structured approach to investment strategy.

  • Translate investor objectives and constraints into portfolio requirements.

  • Understand the role of strategic asset allocation.

  • Use diversification to manage portfolio risk.

  • Develop approaches to monitoring and rebalancing portfolios.

Learning outcomes

  • Define investment objectives, constraints and risk tolerance.

  • Develop a strategic asset-allocation framework.

  • Evaluate asset classes from risk and return perspectives.

  • Construct diversified portfolios aligned with stated objectives.

  • Apply portfolio-review and rebalancing principles.

Who it is for

  • Investment and portfolio professionals.

  • Wealth-management professionals.

  • Treasury and finance specialists.

  • Investment advisers.

  • Managers responsible for institutional investment decisions.

Programme modules

1. Investment Strategy Foundations
  • Investment objectives

  • Risk tolerance

  • Investment horizon

  • Liquidity and constraints

2. Asset Class Characteristics
  • Equities

  • Fixed income

  • Cash

  • Alternative assets

3. Strategic Asset Allocation
  • Purpose of asset allocation

  • Expected returns

  • Risk assumptions

  • Long-term allocation decisions

4. Diversification and Portfolio Risk
  • Correlation

  • Diversification benefits

  • Portfolio volatility

  • Concentration risk

5. Portfolio Construction
  • Combining asset classes

  • Investment-policy constraints

  • Risk budgeting

  • Implementation considerations

6. Monitoring and Rebalancing
  • Portfolio drift

  • Rebalancing approaches

  • Reviewing assumptions

  • Changing investor circumstances

Methodology

The programme uses asset-allocation cases, portfolio scenarios and practical risk-return exercises. Participants develop investment strategies based on explicit investor objectives and constraints.

Assessment

Assessment includes asset-allocation exercises and a final applied case requiring participants to design and justify an investment strategy and portfolio allocation.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

Discuss this programme

Upcoming sessions

No dates are scheduled at present.

Training & Professional Development

Structured professional learning that develops practical, role-relevant knowledge and capability.

Consulting & Advisory

Structured advisory support for strategy, governance, performance, transformation and organisational decision-making.

Discuss your challenge

Discuss your challenge