Diploma Programmes

This module promotes ethical conduct in the workplace. It focuses on commonly faced ethical dilemmas in the wealth management industry. Partnering with Dr Mary Gentile from Darden University, a key component of this module is the innovative “Giving Voice to Values” (GVV) approach to values-driven development.

The GVV curriculum will offer skills and tools for handling these dilemmas in the workplace in an authentic and results-oriented way.

This module will also cover regulations critical to the wealth management industry.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 8

Core FAA CPD: 8

Core SFA CPD: 8

Online Hours: 8

This module aims to enhance the quality of investment recommendations from product to portfolio and from sell to advise.

The client’s risk profile, investment objectives, behavioural bias and product suitability are not static. 

Monitoring them for changes will lead to effective portfolio optimization, and rebalancing through asset allocation models such as strategic and tactical, core and satellite, top-down thematic approach, bottom-up securities selection approach and investment versus economic cycle.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Core FAA CPD: 4

Core SFA CPD: 4

Classroom Hours: 15.5

Online Hours: 4

Knowing the risks and benefits each investment product brings is key to arriving at suitable recommendations.

Strategies include investment product rotation, sector rotation, style and factor investing for equities, fixed income, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, alternatives and structured products.

Case studies and discussions will further demonstrate how these strategies can be applied and deployed over investment cycles in diverse situations. 

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Core FAA CPD: 5

Core SFA CPD: 5

Classroom Hours: 14.5

Online Hours: 5

This module aims to future-proof you for the digitalisation of financial services and wealth management. 

Learn about its evolution in the global financial market, the various types of fintech and how institutions and regulators are adjusting to this disruptive force.

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies bring both benefits and threats. They are best managed through an understanding of digital hygiene and integrity, cybersecurity, data analytics, and digital risk management in the new workspace.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Core FAA CPD: 3

Core SFA CPD: 3

Classroom Hours: 13.5

Online Hours: 6

This module will provide you valuable insights into wealth planning’s approach and effectiveness in helping clients and families attain long-term objectives, such as wealth preservation, inter-generational wealth transfer and succession planning.

Learn about the tools to uncover a client’s succession, philanthropic and financial needs, international tax concepts, family business governance and inter-generational wealth transfer challenges.

Gain insights on business succession, such as understanding the multinational nature of the family, ownership and family governance policies, family constitution and dispute resolution.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Core FAA CPD: 4

Core SFA CPD: 4

Classroom Hours: 15.5

Online Hours: 4

Managing client relationships is less an art and more a skill learned through structured frameworks and mastered through practice. 

Understand what constitutes a successful client management strategy and apply this in acquiring new relationships and deepening existing ones.

A framework for establishing rapport and enhancing trust, effective negotiation techniques and strategies to expand connections will be covered.

Learn about the benefits of adopting a “business owner” approach in segmenting and building your client book through internal and external sources.

Role plays and class discussions will enable you to practice what has been learned.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Core FAA CPD: 4

Core SFA CPD: 4

Classroom Hours: 14.5

Online Hours: 5

Cross banking allows for a more holistic approach when serving clients’ needs.

Having a good understanding of common cross banking needs and how to engage specialists to develop suitable solutions is paramount to deepening client relationships.

This module goes through the common cross banking needs of high-net-worth clients and provides a framework for identifying these needs, developing solutions for them and managing their associated risks. It focuses on using credit and leverages in designing solutions for HNW clients.

Total Training Duration / CPD Hours: 19.5

Classroom Hours: 19.5