ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT NEWS
Approximately 12 months following the "bloodbaths" of Wall Street, it looks like a new day has arrived for finance professionals, particularly in the hedge fund arena.
Check out a few of the stories that have come out over the last few weeks on the turn-around of the hedge fund job market:
Hedge Funds Hiring Again
Hedge Fund Hiring Bounces Back...
Special to AllAboutAlpha.com by:Siew Ling Lay, CAIA Senior Analyst, GFIA
There have been many studies on hedge fund manager return “persistence”. Persistence, after all, is a necessary precondition for the existence of alpha. Like alpha itself, you might expect that the persistence of a good Sharpe ratio may be possible...
Special to AllAboutAlpha.com by: Alexander Ineichen, CFA, CAIA
A Green Pig Down Wall Street – Act I
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a bear named Winnie-the-Bear who lived in the Trillion Acre Wood. On some level, he was a silly old bear. Nevertheless, he was wondering what the fuss about hedge funds was all about. He invited...
Last week, a large majority of the audience members at the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering: Fixing Finance at Pace University in New York all agreed that financial innovation is a good thing. Following the Oxford-style debate between Myron Scholes and Robert Reynolds, arguing for financial innovation, and Richard Bookstaber and Jeremy Grantham,...
Come one, come all to the CAIA New York chapter’s Green Investing Symposium on October 14th at Bloomberg Auditorium.
Covering one of the hottest topics in the industry today, Symposium sessions will focus on the issues and opportunities pertaining to HF's, VC and PE, Government and Law, and Bio-fuels.
Featured speakers include:
Angelo...
AMHERST, MA—The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association® (CAIA) today announced the opening of registration for the March 2010 CAIA Level I and Level II examinations.
The March 2010 curriculum has been significantly updated with the publication of three new books written specifically for the CAIA program. The March 2010...
Welcome to the all-new CAIA.org website. We hope you find the new CAIA Association site more informative, dynamic and user friendly than ever before.
What you now see is the culmination of nearly a full year’s work and countless individual efforts. Special thanks go to the many members who shared their hopes and dreams for what this site should...
AMHERST, MA—The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association has announced the publication of their new CAIA Alternative Investment Knowledge Series, an authoritative source of alternative investment analytics, tools and applications.
The CAIA Alternative Investment Knowledge Series has been launched with the publication of...
Special to AllAboutAlpha.com by: Neil Kotecha, CAIA, Vice President, Senior Research Analyst, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Using risk-adjusted return ratios is a necessary yet difficult task to do when analyzing investment managers. Ranjan Bhaduri points out the weaknesses of the Sharpe ratio in analyzing managed futures products in this July...
If it seems like an increasing number of people in the investment community have an acronym or two after their names, it's true-more people are earning professional designations and certifications than ever before. There are already too many designations to keep track of-at least 100, by some estimates-but their popularity continues to grow.It's...
Guest contributor Steve Deutsch, CFA, CAIA, Director of Separate Accounts/Collective Investment Trusts and the
Pensions, Endowments, and Foundations Database, Morningstar, Inc. says that despite all the talk of "transparency", the micro-economics of the institutional investment industry often prevent the message from getting through.
As we...
AMHERST, MASS, July 8, 2009 - The Financial Services Board of South Africa announced their endorsement of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association designation. The endorsement of the CAIA designation by the Financial Services Board of South Africa is further evidence of the growing recognition throughout the global...
AMHERST, MASS, July 7, 2009 - The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association® is pleased to announce that the CAIA program fees will now enjoy financial training scheme (FTS) support with grant subsidies administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The grant is provided to the following Singapore based...
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) welcomes the Class of March 2009, a group of 650 new members who received the CAIA designation during the most recent examination period.
With the addition of these new members, more than 3,100 financial service industry professionals around the world have earned the CAIA...
The global markets crisis of 2008, capped by the revelation of Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme, has sped up a long-expected tightening of hedge-fund regulations.
Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, looks to be leading the charge. Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Democrat said his panel would...
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