Elite, Independent Education, White-Labeled for Your Brand.
Our platform delivers the highest quality, highest-impact private investments education… in a package designed to grow your business.
Key Features
1. Competitive Advantage
A recruiting tool for clients and advisors. Fully customizable to match your brand. Private; no pubic-facing competitive sites.
2. Delivery
High production value, animated, 3-minute videos, with no talking heads. Every video is crafted to captivate and educate.
3. Pedigree
Leading industry and academic experts delivering practical, and practice-building, content. Completely independent and sponsor-neutral.
4. Breadth
Complete overview in 25 topics; hours of “deeper dive” content on each
5. Credential-building
Advisors can earn CE credits and an FSU College of Business Certificate
Deliverable Curriculum Overview
Introduction to Private Investments
Core Module: Part I
- Introduction to Private Investments
- Why Private Investments Outperform
- Overview of Private Equity
- The World of Buyouts
- Venture and Growth Investing
- Private Credit
- Alternative Yield
- Infrastructure and Real Assets
- What We Can Really Learn from Institutional Investors
Core Module: Part II
- Core Practice Management Issues
- Drawdown vs Evergreen Structures
- Interval vs. Tender Offer funds
- BDCs and REITs
- Feeder Funds
- Classic Private Funds/Primaries
- Secondaries
- Co-Investments
- ETFs and Other Hybrids
Advanced Topics
- All about Fees
- Valuing Private Assets
- Diligence Fundamentals
- Illiquidity Budgeting
- Private Markets Portfolio Construction
- Integration of Private and Liquid Portfolios
- Private Assets in Retirement Plans
Path to Certification
Private Investment Strategies Certificates, earned through an additional 10 hours of content delivered via:
Online Track
FSU will offer enhanced video lectures, beginning with the advanced modules (topics 19–25). The content is led by Dr. Kelsey Syvrud and co-created with Bob Rice. The program draws on faculty expertise across FSU, with select topics featuring contributions from specialists in complementary disciplines.
In-Person Track
FSU will also offer companion in-person events beginning this fall, focused on specific asset classes. These sessions will include 10 hours of instruction over a 1.5-day session on Thursday-Fridays in West Palm Beach, combining education and networking.
Business Model
Costs are covered through sponsorship or partnership arrangements with product firms. Sponsors, however, have no influence over the educational content and do not appear in any materials.
Developers
Bob Rice
Bob Rice has educated advisors on alternatives for over a decade through every medium: hundreds of live events; years of daily TV appearances as the Alternatives Editor for Bloomberg; writing (“The Alternative Answer”, a WSJ bestseller); and numerous online courses and webinars, including as lead expert for IWI’s Certificate in Private Investing course. Bob is also an adjunct professor in the College of Law and the College of Business at Florida State University.
Kelsey Syvrud
Kelsey Syvrud is an experienced finance lecturer and investment strategist. At FSU’s College of Business, she teaches graduate level courses on investments and portfolio construction and leads executive education initiatives in private alternatives, designing academically rigorous, practitioner-focused programs. Her background blends academic research with hands-on portfolio construction and manager due diligence across public and private markets.
Dmitry Paperny
As Managing Partner and Creative Director of Cohere Studio, Dmitry Paperny brings decades of expertise in interface design, content presentation, and data visualization. He crafts elegant, user-centered solutions that turn complex ideas into clear, compelling visuals for clients from startups to global financial firms. Previously, he led digital design across iconic brands including Time, LIFE, People, InStyle, Golf, and Sports Illustrated, helping modernize how millions engage with content online.
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