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About Course

The Portfolio Management Service (PMS) course offers an advanced exploration of high-net-worth investment strategies and the specialized vehicles used to manage them. While standard retail products like mutual funds provide a broad approach, PMS offers a more tailored, sophisticated solution for wealth creation. This course is designed to provide the technical expertise required to understand, distribute, and manage these high-value portfolios.

Participants will delve into the mechanics of diverse asset classes—from equities and fixed-income securities to complex derivatives and pooled investment vehicles like REITs and ETFs. By focusing on the end-to-end portfolio management process, including risk profiling, asset allocation, and performance rebalancing, this program prepares you for a career in private banking, wealth management, or specialized PMS distributorship within the Indian financial ecosystem.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Upon successful completion of this course, you will possess a sophisticated understanding of the portfolio management lifecycle and the regulatory landscape governing it. Specifically, you will be able to:
  • Master Investment Foundations: Apply principles of financial planning and strategic asset allocation to build robust wealth-creation frameworks.
  • Navigate Complex Markets: Understand the structural nuances of the equity, debt, and derivative markets to better time and select investment opportunities.
  • Analyze Fixed Income & Equity: Evaluate the risk-return profiles of stocks versus government and corporate bonds to maintain portfolio stability.
  • Utilize Derivatives for Risk Management: Understand how to use futures and options as strategic tools for hedging risk and enhancing portfolio returns.
  • Leverage Collective Vehicles: Integrate ETFs, REITs, and other pooled products into a diversified portfolio strategy.
  • Execute the PMS Operational Cycle: Manage the practicalities of client onboarding, mandated documentation, and transparent reporting standards.
  • Implement the Management Process: Follow a disciplined, step-by-step approach to portfolio creation, diversification, and periodic rebalancing.
  • Evaluate Performance Metrics: Use advanced risk ratios, benchmarks, and performance attribution methods to measure a manager’s true value-add.
  • Optimize for Taxation: Navigate Capital Gains and Dividend taxation rules to implement tax-efficient investment strategies for high-net-worth clients.
  • Uphold Ethical Standards: Operates within the SEBI (Portfolio Managers) Regulations to ensure the highest levels of governance, professional ethics, and investor protection.

Course Content

Portfolio Management Service

  • 1. Investments
  • 2. Introduction to securities markets
  • 3. Investing in stocks
  • 4. Investing in fixed income securities
  • 5. Derivatives
  • 6. Collective Investment Vehicles
  • 7. Role of portfolio managers
  • 8. Operational aspects of portfolio managers
  • 9. Portfolio management process
  • 10. Performance measurement and evaluation of portfolio managers
  • 11. Taxation
  • 12. Regulatory, governance and ethical aspects of portfolio managers

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