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Build practical skills to analyze and invest in alternative assets with confidence. This alternative investment course helps you learn real-world tools, frameworks, and strategies used to evaluate private equity, hedge fund investment, real estate, commodities, and digital assets in modern portfolios. You will start by exploring the expanding universe of alternative investments and their role in diversification. Next, you will learn private capital concepts, including private equity and debt, along with passive income investments. The course then covers real estate and infrastructure, including valuation methods and exposure to best renewable energy stocks. You will also explore natural resources and commodities, followed by hedge fund investment strategies like long/short and macro. Finally, you will understand digital assets and emerging alternative investment strategies shaping modern finance. By the end of this course, you will: • Apply alternative investment strategies to diversify portfolios and manage risk • Analyze hedge fund investment models and evaluate performance • Identify passive income investments across real assets • Build portfolios using AIF alternative investment fund structures • Evaluate digital assets and commodity-based investments This course is ideal for finance students, aspiring analysts, investment professionals, and anyone interested in alternative investments. Start building your expertise and make smarter investment decisions in evolving markets. Disclaimer: This course is an independent educational resource developed by Board Infinity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially associated with CFA Institute or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. This course is not an official preparation material of CFA Institute. All trademarks, service marks, and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

Syllabus

Alternative Investments: The Expanding Investment Universe

This module introduces the broad landscape of alternative investments and their growing importance in portfolio management. Learners explore asset categories including private capital, real assets, hedge funds, and digital assets while understanding structural and performance characteristics. The module also covers investment structures, fee models, valuation frameworks, and lifecycle dynamics such as the J-curve.

Private Capital: Equity and Debt

This module focuses on real estate and infrastructure investments as key real asset classes. Learners explore investment features, structures, and characteristics of real estate assets, along with the categories and development stages of infrastructure projects. The module also evaluates diversification benefits and investment risks associated with these long-term assets.

Real Estate and Infrastructure

This module focuses on real estate and infrastructure investments as key real asset classes. Learners explore investment features, structures, and characteristics of real estate assets, along with the categories and development stages of infrastructure projects. The module also evaluates diversification benefits and investment risks associated with these long-term assets.

Natural Resources

This module examines investments in natural resources and commodities. Learners explore investment features, pricing mechanisms, and the economic drivers influencing commodity markets. The module also analyzes risk, return, and diversification benefits associated with natural resource investments.

Hedge Funds

This module introduces hedge funds and their role within the alternative investment landscape. Learners explore various hedge fund strategies including equity, event-driven, relative value, and opportunistic approaches. The module also examines investment structures, distinguishing characteristics, and the risk–return profiles associated with hedge fund strategies.

Digital Assets

This module explores digital assets and blockchain-based investment opportunities. Learners examine distributed ledger technology, consensus mechanisms such as proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, and different categories of digital assets. The module also analyzes investment structures, characteristics, and portfolio implications of digital asset investments.