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Climate: The ‘OUR’ Between Dog and Wolf
By Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association While this week’s post may harken to a certain book written by John…
Educational Alpha, State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, ESG, Asset Allocation
Biofuels and Deforestation: A CSR/ESG Cautionary Tale
The Republic of France, in March 2019, decided that it would no longer consider fuel made from palm oil to be…
State of the Industry, ESG
Beyond the Meat; Beyond the Traditional
By Aaron Filbeck, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, Associate Director, Content Development at CAIA Association Building the…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, ESG, Asset Allocation
The Case for ESG as a Performance Additive
Sustainability-sensitive investing has a net positive impact on performance, according to a paper released by…
State of the Industry, ESG, Access to Alternatives
Alternative Data: A Road to Alpha
Investment management firms are increasingly hard-pressed to hedge away risks, increase alpha, and lower…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
A Conversation with the Institute of Business Ethics
By Keith Black, PhD, CFA, CAIA, FDP | Managing Director, Content Strategy at CAIA Association Recently, CAIA…
State of the Industry
Introducing CAIA Alternative Viewpoints
Dear Reader, Welcome to CAIA Alternative Viewpoints. For those who have been following CAIA Association’s…
State of the Industry
Taleb: What Size Tail Does the Smart Money Bet On?
Statistician/philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb critiques “behavioral” economics and finance as he looks at…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Leery Funk’s Open Letter to Sovereign Leaders
By Bill Kelly, CAIA Association CEO In the interest of brevity, I am going to skip the salutation and get…
Educational Alpha, State of the Industry, Private Equity, Manager Selection, ESG, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
SASB + TCFD = Common ESG Disclosure Standards?
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a non-profit organization has developed industry-…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, ESG, Asset Allocation
CAIA Alternative Viewpoint: Risk Parity
Mean variance optimization (MVO) is a simple, yet well-regarded asset allocation technique designed to create…
State of the Industry, Risk Management
False Positives and Machine Learning
There is a high rate of failure among quant funds. These include smart beta, factor investing, statistical…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Hope May Not Be a Strategy…But Neither is a 60/40
By Guest Contributor Aaron Filbeck, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, Associate Director, Content Development The death of the…
Educational Alpha, State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
ESG: Why the Ratings Diverge
A recent MIT Sloan research paper looks at the degree to which various environmental, social, and governance…
State of the Industry, ESG, Asset Allocation
Fossil Fuel: Divestment By the Numbers
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s wealthiest humans, attracted a good deal of…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Private Debt, ESG, Asset Allocation