# Advanced Portfolio Design: Free Advanced ETF Course

> Advanced Portfolio Design: Tilts, alpha and beta, investor rules and honest back-tests. 5 free lessons on real ETF data, with quizzes and a certificate.

Data as of Nov 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## Advanced Portfolio Design

Data as of Nov 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Nov 10, 2026, ETFIQ Academy’s Advanced Portfolio Design course has 5 free advanced lessons on real ETF data, about 36 minutes in all.

Advanced Portfolio Design · 5 lessons published 1 2 3 4 5

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### Lessons

- Alpha, beta and R²: is the edge real? Lesson 1, 7 minutes

- Investor philosophies as rules you can test Lesson 2, 7 minutes

- Alternatives and buffers: the promise and the price Lesson 3, 7 minutes

- Back-testing honestly: windows, survivors, hindsight Lesson 4, 7 minutes

- Capstone: build, benchmark and defend a portfolio Lesson 5, 8 minutes

### Your progress

Finish all 5 lessons and get 2 of 3 right on each quiz to earn the course certificate. 0 of 5 lessons passed on this device.

### What you learn

- Beta, alpha, R-squared and the t-stat: what a fund earned beyond its risk, and whether chance could explain it

- How an investor's belief becomes a rule with a number, a line and a band, and why seats disagree

- Judging a buffer or hedged-equity fund on its stated promise, its own window, and what the protection cost

- Why a back-test depends on its window, its survivors and when the rule was chosen

- Building a mix, matching its benchmark, finding what drove the gap and arguing against your own result

### Where to next

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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