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Topics covered by this category include alternative investments; bankruptcy assets; cash flow products; characteristics of alternative assets; closely held companies; commodities; distressed securities; hedge funds; inactively traded securities; insurance; investment firms; oil and gas resources; precious assets; private equity; real estate; types of alternative assets; venture capital.

Topics covered by this category include: behavioral biases; individual investor behavioral biases; institutional investor decision making; investor thinking styles; limits to arbitrage; neuroeconomics; prospect theory (and other related behavioral and psychological theories).

Topics covered under this category include: business risk; capital investment decisions; corporate restructuring; dividend policy; financial risk; fundamental concerns and issues; investment banking; long-term financial policy and implications; mergers and acquisitions; short-term financial policy and implications.

Topics covered in this category include: arbitrage; assessment of currency benefits/disadvantages; cash flows and currency; characteristics of currency shifts; cross-rate movements; efficiency of bid/ask spreads; FX carry trades; FX derivative instruments; impact of currency changes; liquidity influences; management of currency in the portfolio.  

Topics covered in this category include: characteristics of derivative instruments; credit derivative instrument; credit derivative markets; forward and futures instruments; forward and futures markets; option instruments; options market; alternative derivative issues; swaps and swap instruments; types of derivative instruments. 

Topics covered in this category include: aggregate demand; aggregate supply; business cycles; economic development; economic growth; firm and organizational structure; government regulation; inflation; international capital flows; international trade; market forces (of demand and supply); measuring national statistics; microeconomics; monetary system; open economy macroeconomics; relationship of economic activity to investment. 

Topics covered by this category include: application of fundamental analysis; application of technical analysis; characteristics of the market; characteristics of securities; equity market return analysis; equity market valuation; fundamental analysis hybrid investment vehicles; special applications of analysis (fundamental and/or technical); technical analysis; types of equity market; types of equity securities.   

Topics covered by this category include: board structure and composition; characteristics of good governance; defining governance; environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices; firm and national governance; governance regulations and reforms; governance reforms; governance regimes; impediments to and of governance; implementation of governance practices. 

Topics covered in this category include:changing views to ethics; characteristics of ethical behavior; defining ethical behavior; ethical practices; ethical standards; industry ethics; investor expectations on ethics;  legal ramifications; limitations of ethics; market ethics; national versus international ethical behavior; role of education; whistleblowing; workplace ethics.  

Topics covered in this category include: accounting standards development; accounting for and analysis of short-term and long-term assets; analysis of derivatives and hedging; auditing standards development; business combination accounting; characteristics of the reporting system; debt accounting; financial instruments; financial reporting quality; impact off-balance-sheet assets and liabilities; principal financial statements; ratio and financial analysis. 

Topics in this category include: accounting policy choice; analysis of policy choices; characteristics of accounting policy; impetus for accounting choices; managing policy expectations; regulation and policy; structure of policy formation; types of financial policies; valuations pre- and post-policy shifts.

Topics covered in this category include: assessing trading strategies; behavioral issues; benchmarks; characteristics of fixed income; credit risk analysis; impact of equity market; institutions in fixed income markets; macroeconomic effects; return analysis fixed income; structured products; term structure determination; trading strategies; types of fixed income securities; valuing bonds with embedded options; valuing structured products. 

Topics covered in this category include: active management; asset allocation; assessing investment strategies; CAPM; characteristics of investment products; decision-making process; firm types; investment management specialties; investment products; passive management; performance measurement; risk management; types of investment strategies.

Topics covered in this category include: assessing market integrity; characteristics of market integrity; enforcement;  enhancing market integrity;  fraudulent acts;  guidance and practice standards; market integrity controls; market benchmarks; market manipulation; measuring market integrity; methods of enforcement; misrepresentation and selling of products; threats to market integrity.

Topics covered by this category include: asset allocation in private wealth; asset class exposures; constraints; estate planning; firm types in private wealth; investment strategies; investment vehicles; investor characteristics; marketplace for private clients; objectives; risk management of private wealth; transfer of wealth; wealth management process. 

Topics covered in this category include: anti-competitive behavior; anti-trust laws; benefits of regulation; classifications of regulation; categorization of regulators; economic rationale of regulation; nature and process of regulation; regulatory inter-dependencies; regulatory theories; regulatory tools; self-regulation.