Radix Academy

Capital markets instruments and participants

2009-10-28T09:59:00.002+02:00

Executive summary: This course aims at enhancing the risk-return profile of investors by introducing a number of alternative instruments in different markets that investors can consider for their portfolios.
Five different markets will be analyzed, namely: the money market, the equity market, the bond market, the mortgage market, and the foreign exchange market. This eye-opening course will help delegates making more informed investment decisions at the different stages of an economic cycle.
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Private equity and venture capital modeling

2009-10-28T09:58:00.002+02:00

Executive summary: This course aims at teaching delegates how to value, structure and finance private equity and venture capital transactions.
For example how different would structuring and financing a start-up business from a troubled company turn-around. The different cases that will be dealt with includes start-ups, growth equity, troubled company turn-around, leveraged and management buy-outs and exit strategies. Excel models dealing with valuing and financing private equity deals will be thoroughly explained.
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Investment philosophies and risk measures (for trustees and investment professionals)

2009-10-28T09:50:00.003+02:00

Executive summary: this unique course aims at covering a topic rarely addressed by financial training courses.
Investment professionals usually adopt one investment philosophy and are either uninformed about the others or consider them unprofitable. Trustees on the same token need to know the different investment philosophies that are available in the market in order to make an informed decision that best matches the investment needs of a fund's beneficiaries. The course covers seven popular philosophies. The second part of the course covers 17 different risk measures that allow trustees to measure the performance and riskness of an asset manager.
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Performance measurement, attribution analysis and GIPS® Excel modeling

2009-10-28T09:48:00.004+02:00

Executive summary: Performance measurement and attribution analysis is a critical part of the portfolio management process.
This intensive course will give you the hands-on experience of applying performance measurement and attribution analysis to 10 different hypothetical funds through Excel models. The course starts with some Excel functions and tools that are very essential in linking and tabulating the data in the most efficient and dynamic way. In this way, human errors can be minimized in this critical function.
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Applied corporate finance modeling

2009-10-28T09:36:00.004+02:00

Executive summary: this very practical course fully explains the three basic decisions of corporate finance, namely the investment, financing and dividend decisions. The course applies all the detailed concepts in these decisions in Excel spreadsheets to two different real life companies; a large publicly listed company and a small, private company. In this way, delegates will understand the difference in the treatment in a highly practical manner.
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Mergers and acquisitions modeling

2009-10-28T09:34:00.003+02:00

Executive summary: this hands-on course is divided into three main sections:

1- The M&A environment,

2- The 10 steps of the M&A process from building a business plan to the post closing evaluation which includes valuing the target and the acquiring companies to determine the level of synergies and,

3- The deal structuring and financing, including Leveraged Buyout (LBO) modeling. The course ends with the alternative restructuring and exit strategies which is the opposite of mergers and acquisitions.

Excel models are used throughout the program.

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Investment valuation: How to value listed, private and property companies along with Excel modeling

2009-10-28T09:31:00.003+02:00

Executive summary: the course starts from the very basics of valuation to the more advanced modeling topics of DCF valuation, relative valuation, real option valuation, private company valuation and property valuation.
Valuing companies in distress and financial companies are also discussed in detail. Real option valuation can be used to value patents, contracts and mining companies. Significant time is devoted to explaining and measuring the inputs into the valuation models.
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Courses Introduction

2009-10-28T09:29:00.002+02:00

Radix offers a number of public and in-house financial training courses in and outside of South Africa directly through Radix or through one of our affiliates. All the courses are intended to be of a practical nature. The common theme of all courses is the heavy use of modeling and case studies with minimum theoretical discussions. It is never a university lecture; it is a practical workshop. The intention is tohelp participants apply all of the concepts immediately after completion of a course.

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Welcome To Radix Academy

2009-10-28T09:26:00.002+02:00

"From the roots up in a logical chain"

This is the one pillar on which our success is hinged upon and upon which your success is guaranteed.

Radix Academy offers its clients outstanding financial services in three spheres: training, consultation and modeling solutions. Our mandate is to be the trusted partner in these fields to our clients.

Our clients span from major listed companies and financial institutions to small and medium enterprises. Each and every client is unique in terms of its requirements and objectives. We place the utmost care to every task we are entrusted with. Speak to us about your unique requirements and we will not only help you, we will ADD VALUE.

We will never quit, especially when you think you about to!

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