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    Alternative Investments Syllabus

    Alternative Investments will equip you with the skills, confidence, and strategies to assess potential investment opportunities in
    private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate. You will learn how to speak the language of alternative investments,
    evaluate types of alternative investments and their defining qualities, and develop the confidence and ability to assess potential
    investment opportunities and maximize the value of your portfolio.

    Modules Case Studies Takeaways Key Exercises

    • BC Partners Acquires • Learn what private equity is, • Calculate the value of equity
    Acuris sources of risk and value, and
    Module 1

    • Identify and rank private equity


    how it is funded
    Private Equity segments by their attributes and skills
    • Analyze the different segments required
    of private equity: growth equity,
    • Quiz #1
    buyouts, and venture capital

    • Oaktree Capital • Compare and contrast private • Classify attributes of investment


    Management Acquires equity and debt opportunities
    Pierre Foods’s Debt
    Private • Analyze investment strategies and • Rank deals by their characteristics
    Module 2

    Debt, Distress • Blackstone’s GSO sources of value


    • Quiz #2
    Investing, and Capital Invests in
    • Identify skills needed for
    Crosstex
    Secondaries successful distress investing
    • Compare and contrast secondaries
    and traditional private equity

    • Activist Investing • Learn key elements of hedge • Calculate alpha and beta
    with The Children’s funds, including fee structure and
    • Arbitrage trading simulation
    Investment Fund sources of risk and value
    Module 3

    • Quiz #3
    Hedge Funds • Understand types of arbitrage and
    strategies
    • Characterize core quantitative
    investing strategies

    • Real Estate Valuation • Learn how real estate differs from • Identify phases of the real estate market
    with 625 Ground the rest of the alternatives space
    • Prepare for a real estate negotiation
    Lessor LLC
    Module 4

    • Understand types of real estate


    • Conduct valuation analysis
    Real Estate investments
    • Classify real estate products based on
    their diversification potential
    • Quiz #4

    • Challenges of • Describe the “money journey” • Test knowledge of lockup period,


    Alternatives with PFA and the key players involved liquidity frequency, and notice period
    Pension Fund
    Module 5

    • Interpret metrics to analyze • Practice analysis of key metrics


    Portfolio performance
    Construction • Rank investment risks
    • Understand risk and
    • Quiz #5
    complementarity in portfolios
    • Discuss trends in alternatives

    Learning requirements: In order to earn a Certificate of Completion, participants must thoughtfully complete all 5 modules,
    including satisfactory completion of associated quizzes, by stated deadlines.

    For more information, visit online.hbs.edu or email us at hbsonline@hbs.edu


    © Copyright 2022. President and Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved.

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