Course Overview

 

The Primary Difference: The Price of Liquidity

 

The Primary Difference: The Total Portfolio

 

Course Topics

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Categories of Alternative Investments

 

Receiving a Return of Capital

 

Determining Valuation

 

This course is for you if….

✅ You want to diversify beyond stocks and bonds. ✅ You’re interested in purchasing an investment property to generate rental income. .✅ You must provide for your own retirement.  .✅ You’re an accredited investor looking to enhance your portfolio with private market opportunities.

What people are saying

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I just went through the ups and downs of my public market portfolio. I’m relieved to know I can move some of away from that volatility. “
GD,

Edmonton, AB

I can’t believe nobody let me know about the advantages of alternative investments. I didn’t even know I had options.
TG,

Ottawa, ON

“ I work in the industry and always come up against the same thing. Not enough people know about the alternative investment market and they don’t know how to access it when they learn they actually have options. Well done. The first course is very good. And that it’s free is even better. “
Dealing Representative

Vancouver, BC

Course Outcomes

✓ Understand Enhanced Portfolio Diversification and Risk Management By understanding these assets, investors can diversify their portfolios, potentially reducing overall risk and improving returns. ✓ Increase Knowledge of Alternative Investment Vehicles Gaining insights into hedge fund strategies, private equity approaches, real asset investing, and managed futures. ✓ Understand Proficiency in Due Diligence and Performance Evaluation Understandin how to assess fund managers, understand fee structures, and analyze performance metrics. ✓ Understanding of Regulatory and Ethical Considerations: Providing insights into the legal and ethical considerations specific to alternative assets.

A guide for Alternative Assets

Alternative Investments are separate from publicly traded stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. They are assets like Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, or those outside the public stock market. Alternative Investments can produce high single-digit to mid-teens returns with little or no volatility. Steady returns in the range of 8-9% are not uncommon with Alternative Investments. What does low volatility look like? These investments are not bought and sold like stocks, so the price doesn’t change daily. In exchange, they do come with longer holding periods from 6 months to 2 years or more. For these reasons, they form an important part of every portfolio but usually don’t occupy the whole portfolio. The Overview on Alternative Investment course goes into more detail and provides great examples of portfolio allocations.

Don MacDonald, founder and CEO of Waverley Financial.

Don has 40 years of experience in the Canadian Capital Markets, and founded Waverley in 2012 to help bridge the gaps that Canadian companies are challenged with in raising capital, and the challenges that investors face finding secured investments with consistent returns. Waverley is building a national platform of Dealers with proven track records of success. This platform allows issuers to leverage institutional and high-net-worth relationships nationwide, not only in their local markets. We offer our dealers the opportunity to leverage the platform to increase the distribution potential for any new financing or M&A mandate, facilitating quicker closings, exposure to more potential investors, and potentially higher valuations.

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