Build the audit evidence that demonstrates alternative investment management operated as designed.
Managing Alternative Investments for Clients
Move alternative investment management from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
Course Overview
Growth built on poorly controlled alternative investment management reverses faster than it accumulated. The audit trail behind the wider financial and banking practice agenda matters as much as the decision itself. The course sets out a working method for this part of financial and banking practice that participants can apply the week they return. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with alternative investment management. Plans for this aspect of financial and banking practice often fail at the handover point between functions. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting this strand of financial and banking practice, ready to be adapted internally. Across sectors, teams that rehearse alternative investment management outperform teams that only plan it. Every module pairs a short input on this aspect of financial and banking practice with structured practice on the participant's own material. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the practice within financial and banking practice survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Document decisions about alternative investment management in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to alternative investment management.
Diagnose whether a problem in alternative investment management is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Set acceptance criteria for alternative investment management before work begins rather than after.
Build the client due diligence and monitoring appropriate to alternative investment management.
Stress test alternative investment management against scenarios that are plausible rather than comfortable.
Who Should Attend
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes alternative investment management.
Board risk committee members overseeing alternative investment management.
Internal auditors reviewing how alternative investment management is designed and operated.
Relationship and product managers whose targets depend on alternative investment management.
Operations staff executing and settling alternative investment management.
Internal auditors reviewing the controls around alternative investment management.
Course Modules
Alternative investment management: reporting that supports a decision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handling a breach of policy on alternative investment management properly
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of alternative investment management current.
- Confirm client due diligence standards applied to alternative investment management are current.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates alternative investment management is under control.
- Test alternative investment management against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
Session 2Evidencing that alternative investment management worked as designed
- Build the internal briefing that explains alternative investment management to those affected.
- Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of alternative investment management.
- Set out the decisions in alternative investment management that require sign-off and by whom.
- Agree who signs off alternative investment management and record that they did.
Alternative investment management: regulatory obligation and supervisory expectation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building lasting competence in alternative investment management
- Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in alternative investment management.
- Benchmark the organisation's alternative investment management against comparable operations.
- Design the exception process for alternative investment management and require a documented rationale.
- Confirm regulatory reporting on alternative investment management is complete, timely and reconciled.
Session 2Testing alternative investment management before relying on it
- Confirm reporting on alternative investment management reaches the committee that can act on it.
- Remove steps in alternative investment management that add effort without adding assurance.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on alternative investment management.
- Set escalation thresholds for alternative investment management that work out of hours.
Alternative investment management: the control framework and segregation of duties
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Pricing alternative investment management for the risk actually taken
- Confirm that reporting on alternative investment management reaches the people who can act.
- Record what was learned when alternative investment management did not go as planned.
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating alternative investment management operated as designed.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about alternative investment management.
Session 2Setting a limit on alternative investment management that will actually be respected
- Review whether alternative investment management is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
- Review the pricing of alternative investment management against the risk being assumed.
- Draft the minimum viable control framework for alternative investment management.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to alternative investment management will be introduced.
Alternative investment management: risk appetite, limits and policy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reporting alternative investment management so the reader can act on it
- List the assumptions in any model supporting alternative investment management and when each was last challenged.
- Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering alternative investment management.
- Check the accounting treatment applied to alternative investment management against current standards.
- Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside alternative investment management.
Session 2Making alternative investment management work when resources are constrained
- Translate the appetite for alternative investment management into limits someone monitors daily.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around alternative investment management are understood.
- Check the legal and contractual exposure created by alternative investment management.
- Close out actions on alternative investment management rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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