Important Points for IC 99 - Asset Management Exam
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Asset management enables to place effective and systematic procedures for monitoring and managing their asset-liability positions to ensure that their investment activities and asset positions are appropriate to the firms total liability, risk profiles and solvency positions.
Asset Management policy and practice plays a very important role in mutual fund industry in its achieving the basic objectives of high return, good liquidity and required security of all investments.
Investment Analysis and portfolio management provides guides, insights and techniques for analysing and valuing investment alternatives and selecting best ones.
ALM policy and framework need to consider : the requirement of total asset and total liability relationship - requirement of liquidity and - requirement of Stress Tests
Investment involves typical decisions : selection of assets and their types - asset-mix - amount to be invested - period of investment - grades - terms of investment - liquidity - evaluation of investments, etc. keeping in view the realisation of cost of funds and maximisation of wealth and income on investing activities.