Investing In Horse Racing Syndicates Course

Course overview

STUDY MODE

100% online

NUMBER OF SUBJECTS

1

NEXT INTAKE

Enrol and start anytime

COURSE FEE

$450.00

AVAILABLE LOANS

N/A

AQF LEVEL

N/A

COURSE DURATION

Maximum of 16 weeks

ACCREDITATION

N/A

PROVIDER ID

N/A

Thinking about promoting or selling interests in horse racing syndicates?

The Australian horse racing industry is a significant part of the nation’s sporting and cultural landscape, with a history dating back to the early 19th century. Major events like the Melbourne Cup attract international attention and substantial tourism. Economically, the industry makes a considerable contribution to Australia’s GDP, generating billions of dollars annually. It supports tens of thousands of jobs across breeding, training, racing, wagering, and event
management.

Horse racing syndicates in Australia are regulated primarily by state-based racing authorities (known as Principal Racing Authorities or PRA’s) and ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) to ensure transparency, investor protection, and compliance with financial regulations.

As horse racing syndicates involve shared ownership and financial contributions, they fall under managed investment schemes as defined by the Corporations Act 2001. Authorised representatives of horse racing syndicates—especially those involved in promoting or selling shares in racehorses—must meet certain education and competency requirements.

This course provides the education and training requirements for authorised representatives.

This subject is digitised and features interactive, digital learning.

Note: This course does not meet the RG 146 specialist knowledge requirements for providing general advice on all managed investments, nor the generic knowledge requirements for such. It is specific to horse racing syndicates. It includes the generic and specialist knowledge relevant to horse racing syndicates.

Subject Information

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the Investing in Horse Racing Syndicates Course, individuals should be able to:

Understand the Australian economy and financial markets and their effect on investment issues.
Outline the characteristics and risk of managed investments.
Explain the regulation of managed investments under the Corporations Act.
Discuss the role of an authorised representative.
Explain the difference between factual information, general advice and personal advice.
Discuss the regulation of horse racing syndicates.
Define ethics and understand the difference between compliance and ethics.

Duration

Individuals have a total of:

12 weeks to complete the learning and assessment requirements for the Investing in horse racing syndicates course, from their initial activation date
An additional four (4) weeks’ resubmission time – If an individual reaches the end of their initial enrolment period and has been deemed not yet competent in one or more assessment items, then an additional four (4) weeks will be granted, provided the individual attempted all assessment tasks during the initial enrolment period

Therefore, if an individual completes the learning and assessment, and the resubmission time in every subject is granted, the duration will be 16 weeks.

Individuals working in industry may be able to complete the course requirements in a shorter timeframe or less hours per week.

Topics covered

Topic 1: Australia’s financial system and economic environments
Topic 2: Foundations of managed investments
Topic 3: Managed investment structures
Topic 4: Regulation, documentation and taxation
Topic 5: Regulation horse racing schemes and syndications
Topic 6: Ethics and complaints resolution

On successful completion of the Investing in Horse Racing Syndicates Course, individuals should be able to:

Understand the Australian economy and financial markets and their effect on investment issues.
Outline the characteristics and risk of managed investments.
Explain the regulation of managed investments under the Corporations Act.
Discuss the role of an authorised representative.
Explain the difference between factual information, general advice and personal advice.
Discuss the regulation of horse racing syndicates.
Define ethics and understand the difference between compliance and ethics.

Individuals have a total of:

12 weeks to complete the learning and assessment requirements for the Investing in horse racing syndicates course, from their initial activation date
An additional four (4) weeks’ resubmission time – If an individual reaches the end of their initial enrolment period and has been deemed not yet competent in one or more assessment items, then an additional four (4) weeks will be granted, provided the individual attempted all assessment tasks during the initial enrolment period

Therefore, if an individual completes the learning and assessment, and the resubmission time in every subject is granted, the duration will be 16 weeks.

Individuals working in industry may be able to complete the course requirements in a shorter timeframe or less hours per week.

Topic 1: Australia’s financial system and economic environments
Topic 2: Foundations of managed investments
Topic 3: Managed investment structures
Topic 4: Regulation, documentation and taxation
Topic 5: Regulation horse racing schemes and syndications
Topic 6: Ethics and complaints resolution

Assessment

The assessments for each subject are listed below:

Assessment	Assessment detail
Quiz	Six (6) open-book, unsupervised end-of-topic quizzes. Each quiz has 10 questions (from a bank of 20 questions), four (4) attempts. Competent in all questions. Time limit of 25 minutes applies for each. Assessments must be completed in order from Topic 1-6.

Individuals must be deemed ‘competent’ in all assessment items in order to be awarded their certificate of completion.

Individuals who complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Entry requirements

Education requirements

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Individuals are required to be aged 18 years or older to enrol in this course.

Language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) requirements

This course requires you to read comprehensive learner workbooks, complete a range of written assessments, undertake independent research activities, and at times, engage in online forums and discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written communication.

If you have any doubts about whether you have the language, literacy and numeracy skills to undertake a Kaplan Professional program, we recommend you speak with our Student Services team on 1300 662 203 or email mail@kaplan.edu.au.

Recommended technology requirements

When studying with Kaplan Professional, you’ll be accessing a range of information, resources, and services through our online learning platforms. To help you get the best experience, we recommend having some basic computing equipment and software. Find out more here ->

Skills requirement

To successfully complete this course, individuals will require basic computing skills. This may include:

Saving and editing Microsoft Office documents
Researching, accessing and searching the internet
Downloading and saving documents from websites
Uploading documents through websites
Participating in online discussions

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Individuals are required to be aged 18 years or older to enrol in this course.

This course requires you to read comprehensive learner workbooks, complete a range of written assessments, undertake independent research activities, and at times, engage in online forums and discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written communication.

If you have any doubts about whether you have the language, literacy and numeracy skills to undertake a Kaplan Professional program, we recommend you speak with our Student Services team on 1300 662 203 or email mail@kaplan.edu.au.

When studying with Kaplan Professional, you’ll be accessing a range of information, resources, and services through our online learning platforms. To help you get the best experience, we recommend having some basic computing equipment and software. Find out more here ->

To successfully complete this course, individuals will require basic computing skills. This may include:

Saving and editing Microsoft Office documents
Researching, accessing and searching the internet
Downloading and saving documents from websites
Uploading documents through websites
Participating in online discussions

Enrolment

1 Enrolment

You may enrol in this course at any time and begin studying immediately on enrolment.

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2 Delivery

This course is delivered online via Kaplan Professional’s learning management system, KapLearn.

You will receive login details to KapLearn on enrolment. When you log on to KapLearn, you are able to access the subject notes, assessments, additional learning materials (such as media, case studies and practise activities) and your online tutor.

Assessments and quizzes are accessed and submitted through KapLearn.

Corporate clients should contact our Corporate Solutions team at corporate@kaplan.edu.au to discuss delivery options and how we can further tailor our training to meet your business needs.

Policies

Student policies

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