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CSI PMT Guide

Study guide hub for CSI Portfolio Management Techniques (PMT) with current structure, weighting, route-fit notes, and exact web practice.

Use this page as the main guide home for the CSI Portfolio Management Techniques course on SecuritiesMastery.com. PMT is the discretionary and institutional portfolio-management lane: mandates, controls, operations, equity and fixed-income techniques, alternatives, and reporting discipline matter as much as investment judgment itself.

Use exact web practice when you want timed mixed review, current progress tracking on Web, and a cleaner handoff from reading into exam-mode repetition.

Exam snapshot

ItemValue
ProviderCSI
Official course namePortfolio Management Techniques (PMT)
Current official exam structureProctored multiple-choice exam, 100 questions, 3 hours, 60% passing grade, 3 attempts
Highest-weight areasManaging Fixed Income Portfolios at 19%, then Portfolio Management Organization and Operations and Managing Equity Portfolios at 16% each
Exact practice statusfull exam-specific web practice is live
Current route noteas of April 13, 2026, CSI says that effective January 1, 2026 PMT is no longer acceptable for CIRO approval with an Investment Dealer, though CSI also notes there may be circumstances where PMT is accepted for the CIM designation

Where PMT fits

If the candidate mainly needs…Better first instinct
discretionary portfolio management, mandates, operations, and reportingPMT
advanced wealth-management strategy without the full institutional operating modelAIS
portfolio-management foundations before the advanced techniques layerIMT Exam 1 and IMT Exam 2

How to use this hub well

  • Check mandate permission and control language before you chase return stories or product details.
  • Keep operations, equity and fixed income techniques, alternatives, and reporting in one frame, because PMT blends them in the same questions.
  • Use the review pages for frameworks and discipline, then use exact practice to train speed on the 100-question structure.
  • If your real need is advanced wealth-management strategy without the same institutional and discretionary operating depth, compare with AIS.

What stronger PMT answers usually do

  • identify the mandate, benchmark, or restriction before choosing the trade or technique
  • connect front, middle, and back office responsibilities to the investment decision
  • treat fixed income and equity choices as mandate and risk-budget decisions, not just market calls
  • keep reporting and attribution inside the same governance frame as construction and execution

In this section

Revised on Thursday, April 23, 2026