Member Spotlight

Michael McGaughy

"The CAIA program rounded out my fundamental buy- and sell-side analysis and manager selection background. Having been based in Asia for most of my career the program was particularly useful in understanding new products and ideas that are relatively new to the region and some times not here yet. Networking opportunities at local chapter events is helping to diversify my contact base and provides additional insight and knowledge."
Michael McGaughy
, CAIA, has had his new book published. Inside China's Corporations maps and explains the corporate structure and control of China and Hong Kong's conglomerates - both family and government-owned. It highlights their key people, structure, and business lines at both the parent and listco levels. The book follows several other similar reports he has written on ASEAN, Indonesian and Malaysian conglomerates and prominent business families.

Michael, who earned the CAIA charter in 2010 and is a member of the CAIA Hong Kong chapter executive committee, explains, "The CAIA program rounded out my fundamental buy- and sell-side analysis and manager selection background. Having been based in Asia for most of my career the program was particularly useful in understanding new products and ideas that are relatively new to the region and some times not here yet. Networking opportunities at local chapter events is helping to diversify my contact base and provides additional insight and knowledge."

Michael consults to asset allocators, funds and research organizations on manager and product selection, marketing and fundamental equity, ETF and index analysis, through his company Kairo, Ltd. He is an award winning analyst, with diverse financial background spanning buy- and sell-side equity research, private-equity fund management, fund- of-hedge funds management, business development and investor relations.

Michael has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Vermont.