ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT NEWS
AMHERST, MASS, September 18, 2007 - The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association® (CAIAA), an independent, not-for-profit international organization that provides a charter program for professionals in alternative investments, today released the results of its annual Global Member Survey, a unique, inside look at the market...
SINGAPORE : As a growing number of hedge funds set up base in Singapore, there is increasing demand for talent in the financial services industry.
And a new finance qualification, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), is gaining popularity among Singaporeans hoping to make their mark in the sector.
For 26-year-old [Chin]...
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA) to Host Networking and Informational Events in Australia and Canada, Sept. 26 & 27
AMHERST, MASS, September 5, 2007 - The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association® (CAIAA)-an independent, not-for-profit international organization that provides a charter program...
Opalesque Exclusive: How to get an A.I. education?
By Benedicte Gravrand
Geneva, Switzerland: Are you or planning to be involved in the world of alternative investments as a fund manager, a risk manager, an investor, an analyst, an accountant, a lawyer, in marketing, in investor relations, in the back-office...? True, you can...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Corporations that have resisted activist investors' prodding to sell off divisions, take on new debt, and make special dividend payments are getting some unexpected help from rapidly declining credit markets.
As credit tightens and people bidding on divisions earmarked for spinoffs find it hard to borrow, some of the $1...
DETROIT - Investing client assets in alternative products and strategies can expose financial advisers to a whole new set of challenges for due diligence.
While some alternative investments, such as hedge funds, will introduce risks associated with a less regulated marketplace, other products that fall under more stringent regulatory...
No one really knows where the stock market is going. Is the late-July plunge in stock indexes a momentary blip, or a sign of worse things to come? Will credit troubles and the ever-lower housing market do in the rest of the economy?
One thing is clear: Markets have entered a period of wild volatility. Indexes hit record highs and a week...
AMHERST, MASS - The Chartered Alternative
Investment Analyst
Association® (CAIAA)-an independent, not-for-profit
international
organization that provides the only professional financial designation
for the alternatives industry-will close registration for the September
2007 CAIA Level I and Level II examinations on Monday, July
30....
NEW YORK - Blackstone Group LP debuts Friday on the New York Stock Exchange in the most talked-about IPO to sweep Wall Street since Google.
The path to the public market was not an easy one, though. It had to dodge multiple attempts by powerful members of Congress to delay or block the deal amid heavy scrutiny of the lavish lifestyles of...
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Blackstone Group's (BX) rivals will be encouraged to follow the private-equity firm's path to a public listing as the stock rallied to a 15% premium to its initial public offering price.
Blackstone was recently trading at $35.80 on heavy volume of 86.7 million shares after reaching a high of $38.
The stock opened...
Insight on the Blackstone IPO, with Craig Asche, CAIA executive director; Don
Putnam, Grail Partners managing partner and CNBC's Erin Burnett
The video is available through CNBC.com
Blackstone Group LP, dodging political scrutiny on the eve of its landmark initial public offering, on Thursday received overwhelming demand from investors seeking a piece of the biggest IPO in at least five years.
The nation's second-biggest buyout fund, which controls names like Universal Studios Florida and real estate powerhouse Equity...
The CAIA Association is pleased to recognize the following individuals
from the Class of March 2007. They are among the nearly 400 new
designees to join us this spring after successfully completing the
two-level examination program and meeting the requirements for
membership in the CAIA Association.
Class of March 2007
If prestigious employers and exclusive universities give a resume its horsepower, professional credentials play the role of a direct shift transmission.
The investment business has spawned an alphabet soup of three-letter and four-letter acronyms. Perhaps the best-known is the venerable and widely held CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst),...
Craig Asche discusses the state of alternative investments in Asia with Catherine Yang.
Click here to watch the interview.
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