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Check in with the new CAIA Blog a few times a week to read CAIA staff members' musings on new developments in the AI sphere. We welcome comments here, but if a lively conversation starts, we invite you to move your discussions to the CAIA Forums, which are structured for greater give-and-take in sharing ideas.

Fit and Passion Deciding Factors in Crowded Job Market
Tue, 02/16/2010
Back by popular demand, CAIA Canada hosted its Networking and Career Night at the Cambridge Club in downtown Toronto on February 10th. We had the dining room over-looking Metro Hall and the skating rink to ourselves to mix and mingle and hear five recruiters from three distinguished firms speak on their business and trend therein. Bill Vlaad represented his eponymous company along with Amy Wilson, one of his growing staff of search individuals...
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Quick Thinking Attendee Saves Speaker's (and Organizer's) Bacon
Fri, 01/22/2010
Last night a group of some 34 constituents of CAIA membership and candidacy rolls, AIMA Canada, the Toronto CFA Society (aka TSFA) and the press met at Bymark's ground level wateringhole. Surrounded by the massive TD Centre cluster and Royal Bank Plaza building, which were visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows and many skylights, and located next to "The Pasture" where a half dozen bronze cows stood and laid, ostensibly grazing on the...
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CAIA Members discuss why they recommend the CAIA Designation
Thu, 01/21/2010
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Quantitative Analysis
Fri, 01/08/2010
We’re often asked, has CAIA dropped quantitative analysis from the most recent version of its program? The answer is no. With the exception of Standards of Practice, the CAIA program is now exclusively alternative investments. This was always our goal. Those familiar with CAIA early on might remember when traditional investments occupied about 25% of the Level I curriculum. Then, in 2006, this material was moved out of Level I and into the...
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CAIA Grading Jamboree Planned for April – Volunteers Needed
Tue, 12/29/2009
The CAIA Association’s semi-annual Grading Jamboree is becoming a popular volunteer opportunity among CAIA members. (Read about October 2009 Jamboree at CAIA Headquarters in the November Newsletter). We are getting ready to select 24 volunteers for our next Grading Jamboree, to take place April 8-11, 2010. CAIA members in good standing who would like to join us in Amherst, Massachusetts, to participate in this very important assessment of future...
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Stamford Rising
Fri, 12/18/2009
When I got off the train in Stamford, Connecticut, I was immediately smacked by a bitter north wind from which the towers of mid-town Manhattan had apparently shielded me. I asked the cab dispatcher how far it was to my hotel. “A five minute walk, but it’s too cold for that sir.” Too cold for mister Stamford taxi-line dude, perhaps. But like many Canadians, I felt somehow compelled to prove my cold weather “creds” and I started walking through...
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CAIA members launch CAIA Germany – the Association’s 11th global chapter and one of the fastest-growing CAIA communities in Europe
Thu, 12/17/2009
In the afternoon of the 8th of December at the splendid Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Craig Asche (CAIA Association’s Executive Director) joined over 70 CAIA members, candidates and friends to open an education event and celebrate the inauguration of CAIA Association’s 11th global chapter and 4th chapter in Europe. Germany saw an increase from just slightly above 10 CAIA members in 2006 to well over 100 CAIAs in 2009. Craig also...
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Sold out New York Chapter social rings in holiday season
Thu, 12/17/2009
The CAIA New York Chapter met on Tuesday night for drinks and food at the historic "Inside the Park at St. Bart’s."  As locals will know, this is a reception venue inside St. Bartholomew’s Church, a Park Avenue landmark right beside the Waldorf Astoria. Over 100 members and candidates exchanged holiday cheer and a general sense of relief that 2009 wasn’t a repeat of 2008.  Chapter president Robert O’Donnell, the brains behind the recent CAIA...
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CAIA Members Brave Elements in Windy City
Thu, 12/10/2009
Chicagoans are a hearty lot. Sandwiched between one of the world's largest lakes and the vast American plains, citizens of the Windy City endure blizzards, tornadoes, and droughts with alarming frequency. (It's "character building," they say.) So the first major storm of the winter was a poor match for the resolve of over 50 CAIA members, candidates and guests who attended a Holiday social here on Tuesday. Chicago is the home of Mark Anson,...
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Toronto "Think and Drink"
Mon, 12/07/2009
The Toronto branch of CAIA Canada kicked off the Holiday season Wednesday night with an event you might call a "think and drink". Toronto-based organizer James Burron brought together the head of the Canadian Venture Capital Association, a leading managed futures manager, a globe-trotting hedge fund marketer and the CIO of one of the country's leading institutional investment managers, mixed in about 40 local members, some seasonal libations and...
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