Columbia Business School offers unprecedented access to the Asset Management space through its breadth and depth of courses taught by both full-time faculty members and practitioners. Through practical work the students learn and intensely practice the skills and frameworks needed to succeed in their careers
The objective of Columbia’s equity focused courses is to enable students to identify, research and present compelling investment opportunities. Throughout these courses, students learn to understand key business drivers across industries, interview and evaluate management teams, project financial statements, and identify catalysts to drive value.
While the courses are about investing, they also provide a sound intellectual framework to think about business in general, and as such investing courses are equally interesting for students who will work for a great business, build a great business, or invest.
Courses
- Activist Value Investing for Small Cap Companies
- Advanced Investment Research
- Applied Security Analysis
- Applied Value Investing (EMBA)
- Applied Value Investing (MBA)
- Compounders
- Derivatives
- Digital Investing
- Distressed Value Investing
- Hybrid Fund Investing: Crossing Over from Public to Private
- International Value Investing
- Mental Models, Investment Frameworks
- Modern Value
- Security Analysis
- Seminar in Value Investing (EMBA)
- Shareholder Activism
- Short Selling
- The Analyst's Edge
- Value Investing
- Value Investing with Legends
Foundational/Pre-requisites
Fixed income is not just one asset class, but rather a broad array of markets. The Business School's credit focused courses provide an overview of these markets, and develop students' abilities to identify, evaluate, and price particular credit investment opportunities to understand why investors choose to buy debt. And how do they decide which instruments to buy.
Courses
Foundational/Pre-requisites
Private Equity courses cover the theory and application of the private equity cycle of selection, valuation, and harvesting.
Students learn about the early stages of the deal process: sourcing and diligence and build a complex three-statement LBO model, understanding how modern deals are structured with private credit, management rollovers, and non-traditional capital structure decisions. Courses also cover the ownership side of PE deals and value creation.
Courses
- Advanced Private Equity
- Building a VC Investment Thesis
- Hybrid Fund Investing: Crossing over from public to private
- Investing in Medical Technologies
- Investing in Social Ventures
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Allocation
- Private Equity Deals
- Private Equity Field Study
- Private Equity Finance
- Private Equity Leverage
- Private Equity: Value Creation
- Strategic Equity Finance
- VC Seminar
Foundational/Pre-requisites
Courses in wealth management provide students with a fundamental understanding of the business and practice of wealth management, and a framework to work for or invest like an endowment, family office, foundation or on behalf of high-net-worth clients. Topics include an overview of asset management, equity portfolios, stock selection, valuation metrics, mutual funds, ETFs, outside managers, asset allocation, income needs, and illiquid investments with an emphasis on risk management.
Courses
- Alternative Assets in Institutional Portfolios
- Asset Management
- Family Enterprise and Wealth
- Finance in the Family Firm
- Managing Large Pools of Assets for Families and Institutions
- Practice of Wealth Management for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Seminar in Wealth Management: Investing for Family Offices, Endowments and Foundations
Foundational/Pre-requisites
Courses
- Advanced Seminar in Real Estate
- Capstone: Real Estate Investment
- Cities Disrupted, Cities Transformed
- Distressed Real Estate Investing
- Global Real Estate Investment
- Real Estate as Asset and Business (EMBA)
- Real Estate Debt Markets
- Real Estate Development
- Real Estate Equity Securities Analysis
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Residential Real Estate: Dirt, Debt, and Derivatives
Foundational/Pre-requisites
Students may customize the curriculum based on their individual goals and needs. The sample schedules below highlight several options for building on foundational coursework and shaping expertise. These examples are just a starting point, however—each Center & Program offers a wide range of courses and combinations that can be tailored to one's professional interests and goals.
Sample Schedule for a Student Interested in ...
The Value Investing Program*
- Modern Value
- Applied Value Investing
- The Credit Superhighway
- Economics of Strategic Behavior
- Value Investing with Legends
- Mental Models*
- Compounders*
*The Value Investing Program and some classes require an application process. Please contact the Heilbrunn Center for more information.
Credit Investing
- Value Investing in Credit Markets
- Applied Credit Investing*
- The Case for Boring: Investing in Investment Grade
- Value Investing in Private Credit
- From Feast to Famine and - Back Again
*The Value Investing Program and some classes require an application process. Please contact the Heilbrunn Center for more information.
Private Equity
- Private Equity required for
- Advanced Private Equity required for
* The Private Equity Field Study and some classes require an application process. Please contact the Private Equity Program for more information.
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