CAIA InfoSeries Webcasts

Our live InfoSeries webcasts will boost your expertise on the latest industry growth areas and share insights into the CAIA exams. Featuring CAIA and industry experts, these brief, interactive sessions will encourage and answer your questions. Find out more and join one today.

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ESG Investing: History, Approaches, and Integration
Jul 14 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this presentation, Aaron Filbeck, Associate Director of Curriculum will present the latest hour of education from the CAIA Fundamentals of Alternative Investment. The presentation will start with a discussion on the history of ESG investing, including its evolution from values-based investment philosophy to a data-centric investment process. Next, we compare the three primary approaches to ESG investing: socially responsible investing (SRI), impact investing, and ESG integration. Finally, with a focus on ESG integration, we discuss the three pillars of ESG: environmental, social, and governance, and how an investor may consider each when making investment decisions.

Panelists: Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association, and Millissa Allen, Managing Director/Global Head, Fundamentals of Alternative Investments, CAIA Association

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CAIA and AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp
Jul 15 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Just getting started in the alternative investment industry or still unsure about where to focus? If so, you are welcome to attend our upcoming “Boot Camp” series, co-hosted by AIMA. Each day for three days at noon ET, we’ll discuss need-to-know alts industry trends. We hope you’ll join us for one, two, or all three sessions. This boot camp is designed for any students, interns, or early-career professionals who might benefit from these discussions.

Session 1: The State of Alternative Investments
July 15 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

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Session 2: ESG Investing: History, Approaches, and Integration
July 16 – 12:00pm – 1:30pm Time zone: EDT

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Session 3: Financial Service Industry
July 17 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

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Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov discusses Factor and Asset Allocation: The Role of Networks and LASSO
Jul 16 2020 - 11:00am Time zone: EDT

Description: Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov will be speaking about the financial Industry needs for new Methods to model and explain the complex market behavior. The industry is in a state of transition. The Asset Management Industry must avoid over-fitting, and adjust findings for false discoveries. Using machine learning and predictive models, investors can find asset and factor allocation solutions. Implementing LASSO regressions help to derive asset and factor allocation. Network theory and predictive models help to derive portfolio allocation in a new way, which successfully captures economic relationships. However, it is inevitable to evaluate the new strategies in a manner consistent with the requirements in the brave new financial world. Adjusting the Sharpe Ratios and t-Statistics become inevitable in the new set up. The focus in the webinar is in the application of new tools in Investment Management.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov, CAIA, FDP, Senior Portfolio Manager Fixed-Income and Currencies, LBBW Asset Management, and Keith Black, Ph.D.,CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director of Content Strategy, CAIA Association

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CAIA APAC -The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship
Jul 22 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: Join a star-studded panel of asset allocators and thought leaders to reflect on the meteoric rise of alternative assets in the past twenty years and what this new decade holds for diversified portfolios. The session will also explore CAIA Association’s new four point call to action coinciding with a recently released thought leadership study on the profession

Panelists: David George, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets, of Australia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Future Fund, Jayne Bok, Willis Towers Watson and Minjun Kim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Strategic Asset Partners (SAP)

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Is the allure of Private Equity a mirage? (Co-hosted by Institute for Private Capital at the UNC Keenan Flagler Business School)
Jul 22 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Does the illiquidity premium really exist after fees? Can the efficient frontier really be expanded through private capital or can the same behavior be captured through highly indebted publicly traded small cap equities? Join a panel of experts that have wrestled and opined on this complex set of questions.

Panelists: Gregory Brown, Executive Director and Professor of Finance at Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina, Dan Rasmussen, Founder and Partner, Verdad Advisors, Christine Kelleher, CIO, National Gallery of Art, Chris Schelling, Managing Director, Windmuehle Company, and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association

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Michelle Seng Ah Lee discusses Challenges of Algorithmic Fairness in Financial Services
Jul 29 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: As the financial services sector increasingly adopts advanced algorithms, including machine learning and AI, there has been greater regulatory and public scrutiny on the potential for algorithms to replicate unfair bias and discrimination against disadvantaged groups, exacerbating existing inequalities. This webinar will walk through use cases in mortgage lending and in peer-to-peer lending to discuss the complex challenges of trying to make the algorithms "fair" in evaluating credit risk of minority groups.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Michelle Seng Ah Lee, PhD Researcher, Compliant & Accountable Systems Research Group, University of Cambridge

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Alireza Yazdani discusses Machine Learning Prediction of Recessions: An Imbalanced Classification Approach
Jul 8 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: We examine the problem of predicting recessions from a machine learning perspective. We employ a number of machine learning algorithms to predict the likelihood of recession in a given month using historical data from a set of macroeconomic time series predictors. We argue that, due to the low frequency of historical recessions, this problem is better dealt with an imbalanced classification approach. We apply measures to compensate for class imbalance and use various performance metrics to evaluate and compare models. With these measures in place, ensemble machine learning models predict recessions with high accuracy and great reliability. In particular, a Random Forest model achieves a near perfect True Positive Rate within the historical training sample, generalizes extremely well to a test period containing 2008-2009 financial crisis, and shows elevated recession probabilities during the last few months of 2019, associated with the tightened macroeconomic environment and worsened by global pandemic.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Alireza Yazdani, Chief Data Scientist & Founder, Calcolo Analytics LLC

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Perspectives from CAIA Association & AIMA - The Next Decade of Alternative Investments
Jun 25 2020 - 10:00am Time zone: EDT

Description: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association, Jack Inglis, CEO AIMA, John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association, and Michelle Noyes, Managing Director, AIMA - AMRS discuss CAIA's recent industry report, The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship in this recording. Both CAIA and AIMA discussed the research behind the report and CAIA Association’s four-point call to action for the industry: Commit to education, embrace transparency, advocate for diversification, and democratize but protect.  

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association, Jack Inglis, CEO AIMA, John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association, and Michelle Noyes, Managing Director, AIMA - AMRS

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CAIA Association and Duff & Phelps - Alternative Asset Valuation in the Best of Times, in the Worst of Times
Jun 23 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: A key challenge in the alternative investment industry is to provide investors with relevant and reliable valuation information on a regular basis. Many have asked, What is Fair Value? Do investors (LPs) WANT Fair Value? Why do we NEED Fair value. Listen to the recording of this webcast, where these questions were answered and there was a discussion on the practical steps fund managers and investors in non-traded or infrequently traded debt and equity investments take as they exercise their fiduciary duty to report independent and credible fair value information to investors and stakeholders.

Panelists: David Larsen, Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation, U.S. Duff & Phelps, Rishi Aswani, Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation, India Duff & Phelps, Bennett Cupit, Director, Portfolio Valuation, Hong Kong Duff & Phelps

Moderator: Jo Murphy, Managing Director, Industry Relations, Asia Pacific

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Gender Parity in the Age of COVID-19: Minor shift or breakthrough?
Jun 17 2020 - 9:30am Time zone: EDT

Description: In this one-hour discussion, Debbie Mclean talks with three heads of organizations each taking the lead on closing the gap in both interest and success in the financial fields for women and girls. Has the current pandemic changed the dynamics enabling women to be more effective workers, leaders, and mentors? How can we capitalize on remote work – increasing exposure of young women and girls to finance and providing leadership training that may play to women’s strengths?

Listen to CAIA Managing Director Deborah McLean's conversation with Amanda Pullinger, CEO, 100 Women in Finance, Janet Cowell, CEO, Girls Who Invest, and Lindsay Burton, Founder & President, Kayo Conference Series

Panelists: Amanda Pullinger, CEO, 100 Women in Finance, Janet Cowell, CEO, Girls Who Invest, and Lindsay Burton, Founder & President, Kayo Conference Series

Moderator: Deborah McLean, Managing Director, CAIA Association

Recording
CAIA Charter Information Session
Jun 15 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this recording CAIA CEO Bill Kelly and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development discuss the current market challenges and education's place in this complex environment, as well review information about the CAIA Charter designation

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association

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Liberalizing the Accredited Investor Rule: Challenges and Benefits
May 26 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Should retail investors be allowed to participate in private capital? Do the social and financial risks outweigh the long term benefits? With so much capital formation shifting to the private markets, are retirement goals at risk by relying solely on public markets? Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA, and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA, joined a panel of experts to provide a balanced and objective dialogue about how the industry should weigh these complex topics in this recording.

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association

Recording
CAIA Hong Kong Webinar: eSports/Video-Gaming Investment in the Public Market
May 20 2020 - 12:30pm Time zone: HKT

Description: In this recording Brian Oh, Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager, Saiga Capital Management LLC, and Rebekah Pang, CAIA, CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive take a look at eSports as an investment, examining the pluses and pitfalls of the sector from both the listed and unlisted perspective and discuss the opportunities that lie within the growing public market. This webcast lasts approximately 1 hour.  

Panelists: Brian Oh, Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager, Saiga Capital Management LLC, and Rebekah Pang, CAIA, CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive

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What About Beta?
May 19 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: CAIA's CEO, Bill Kelly, has been keeping an eye on a few topics that could have significant impacts to our industry. Listen in as Bill Kelly and CAIA's Aaron Filbeck discuss some of their recent blog posts from 'What About Beta?' on AllAboutAlpha. Our discussion lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association

Recording
Reframing the Role of Alternatives in Today’s Market
May 13 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this recording, CAIA Association and FS Investments discuss some of the findings of their recent report, "Reframing the Role of Alternatives." The webcast begins with a short presentation from Robert Stark, Senior Managing Director of Corporate Development of FS Investments, followed by a panel discussion with Shana Sissel, CAIA, CIO of Spotlight Asset Group and Travis Upton, CAIA, CFA, FRM, Partner, CEO and CIO of The Joseph Group Capital Management. The panel is moderated by Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development at CAIA Association

Panelists: Robert Stark, Senior Managing Director of Corporate Development of FS Investments, Shana Sissel, CAIA, CIO of Spotlight Asset Group, Travis Upton, CAIA, CFA, FRM, Partner, CEO and CIO of The Joseph Group Capital Management and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development at CAIA Association

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FDP Information Session
May 12 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: FDPI Executive Director Mehrzad Mahdavi and Sr. Curriculum Advisor Hossein Kazemi will share how you can obtain your Financial Data Professional credential. Hossein will discuss the updated curriculum.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, and Hossein Kazemi, Senior Advisor, FDP Curriculum

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ESG Investing: History, Approaches, and Integration
Jul 14 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this presentation, Aaron Filbeck, Associate Director of Curriculum will present the latest hour of education from the CAIA Fundamentals of Alternative Investment. The presentation will start with a discussion on the history of ESG investing, including its evolution from values-based investment philosophy to a data-centric investment process. Next, we compare the three primary approaches to ESG investing: socially responsible investing (SRI), impact investing, and ESG integration. Finally, with a focus on ESG integration, we discuss the three pillars of ESG: environmental, social, and governance, and how an investor may consider each when making investment decisions.

Panelists: Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association, and Millissa Allen, Managing Director/Global Head, Fundamentals of Alternative Investments, CAIA Association

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CAIA and AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp
Jul 15 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Just getting started in the alternative investment industry or still unsure about where to focus? If so, you are welcome to attend our upcoming “Boot Camp” series, co-hosted by AIMA. Each day for three days at noon ET, we’ll discuss need-to-know alts industry trends. We hope you’ll join us for one, two, or all three sessions. This boot camp is designed for any students, interns, or early-career professionals who might benefit from these discussions.

Session 1: The State of Alternative Investments
July 15 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

REGISTER NOW

Session 2: ESG Investing: History, Approaches, and Integration
July 16 – 12:00pm – 1:30pm Time zone: EDT

REGISTER NOW

Session 3: Financial Service Industry
July 17 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

REGISTER NOW

Is the allure of Private Equity a mirage? (Co-hosted by Institute for Private Capital at the UNC Keenan Flagler Business School)
Jul 22 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Does the illiquidity premium really exist after fees? Can the efficient frontier really be expanded through private capital or can the same behavior be captured through highly indebted publicly traded small cap equities? Join a panel of experts that have wrestled and opined on this complex set of questions.

Panelists: Gregory Brown, Executive Director and Professor of Finance at Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina, Dan Rasmussen, Founder and Partner, Verdad Advisors, Christine Kelleher, CIO, National Gallery of Art, Chris Schelling, Managing Director, Windmuehle Company, and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association

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Perspectives from CAIA Association & AIMA - The Next Decade of Alternative Investments
Jun 25 2020 - 10:00am Time zone: EDT

Description: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association, Jack Inglis, CEO AIMA, John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association, and Michelle Noyes, Managing Director, AIMA - AMRS discuss CAIA's recent industry report, The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship in this recording. Both CAIA and AIMA discussed the research behind the report and CAIA Association’s four-point call to action for the industry: Commit to education, embrace transparency, advocate for diversification, and democratize but protect.  

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association, Jack Inglis, CEO AIMA, John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association, and Michelle Noyes, Managing Director, AIMA - AMRS

Recording
Gender Parity in the Age of COVID-19: Minor shift or breakthrough?
Jun 17 2020 - 9:30am Time zone: EDT

Description: In this one-hour discussion, Debbie Mclean talks with three heads of organizations each taking the lead on closing the gap in both interest and success in the financial fields for women and girls. Has the current pandemic changed the dynamics enabling women to be more effective workers, leaders, and mentors? How can we capitalize on remote work – increasing exposure of young women and girls to finance and providing leadership training that may play to women’s strengths?

Listen to CAIA Managing Director Deborah McLean's conversation with Amanda Pullinger, CEO, 100 Women in Finance, Janet Cowell, CEO, Girls Who Invest, and Lindsay Burton, Founder & President, Kayo Conference Series

Panelists: Amanda Pullinger, CEO, 100 Women in Finance, Janet Cowell, CEO, Girls Who Invest, and Lindsay Burton, Founder & President, Kayo Conference Series

Moderator: Deborah McLean, Managing Director, CAIA Association

Recording
CAIA Charter Information Session
Jun 15 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this recording CAIA CEO Bill Kelly and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development discuss the current market challenges and education's place in this complex environment, as well review information about the CAIA Charter designation

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association

Recording
Liberalizing the Accredited Investor Rule: Challenges and Benefits
May 26 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Should retail investors be allowed to participate in private capital? Do the social and financial risks outweigh the long term benefits? With so much capital formation shifting to the private markets, are retirement goals at risk by relying solely on public markets? Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA, and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA, joined a panel of experts to provide a balanced and objective dialogue about how the industry should weigh these complex topics in this recording.

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and John Bowman, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association

Recording
What About Beta?
May 19 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: CAIA's CEO, Bill Kelly, has been keeping an eye on a few topics that could have significant impacts to our industry. Listen in as Bill Kelly and CAIA's Aaron Filbeck discuss some of their recent blog posts from 'What About Beta?' on AllAboutAlpha. Our discussion lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association

Recording
Reframing the Role of Alternatives in Today’s Market
May 13 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this recording, CAIA Association and FS Investments discuss some of the findings of their recent report, "Reframing the Role of Alternatives." The webcast begins with a short presentation from Robert Stark, Senior Managing Director of Corporate Development of FS Investments, followed by a panel discussion with Shana Sissel, CAIA, CIO of Spotlight Asset Group and Travis Upton, CAIA, CFA, FRM, Partner, CEO and CIO of The Joseph Group Capital Management. The panel is moderated by Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development at CAIA Association

Panelists: Robert Stark, Senior Managing Director of Corporate Development of FS Investments, Shana Sissel, CAIA, CIO of Spotlight Asset Group, Travis Upton, CAIA, CFA, FRM, Partner, CEO and CIO of The Joseph Group Capital Management and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development at CAIA Association

Recording
CAIA Charter Information Session
May 11 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: CAIA CEO Bill Kelly and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, Associate Director of Content Development discuss the current market challenges and education's place in this complex environment, as well as explore and review information about the CAIA Charter designation in this recording.

Panelists: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, Associate Director, Content Development, CAIA Association

Recording
A Discussion on Co-Working and Real Estate Markets
May 6 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this discussion, Dr. Andrea Chegut of the MIT Center for Real Estate discusses the financial impacts of coworking. When renting office space, what is the importance of a B2B vs. a B2C business model? How do co-working landlords compare as lessees to standard users of office space in risk and return? What are the dynamics of short term vs. long term leases in the office market? This recording lasts approximately 1 hour.

Panelists: Dr. Andrea Chegut of the MIT Center for Real Estate and Keith Black, Ph.D.,CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director of Content Strategy, CAIA Association

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CAIA Report: The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: Panel Discussion
Apr 21 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: CAIA Association's John Bowman, CFA, Senior Managing Director, leads an esteemed panel of alternative investment experts to discuss CAIA's recent report: The Next Decade in Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship. John is joined by Ashby Monk, PhD, Executive Director, Global Projects Center at Stanford University, Christie Hamilton, Head of Investments, Children's Health System of Texas, and Kristina Koutrakos, CAIA, Director of Portfolio Strategies, The Virginia Retirement System.

Panelists: John Bowman, CFA, Senior Managing Director, CAIA Association, Ashby Monk, PhD, Executive Director, Global Projects Center at Stanford University, Christie Hamilton, Head of Investments, Children's Health System of Texas, and Kristina Koutrakos, CAIA, Director of Portfolio Strategies, The Virginia Retirement System

Recording
Sustainable Investing: Fast Forwarding Its Evolution
Apr 2 2020 - 9:00am Time zone: EST

Description: Bill Kelly, Tom Kehoe, CAIA, Tony Cowell, Ben Blair, and Rebecca Palmer, KPMG discuss some of the takeaways of “Sustainable Investing: Fast-Forwarding Its Evolution," a report among KPMG International, CREATE-Research, AIMA and CAIA. The report details sustainable investing and its impact on the alternative investment industry. Focusing on hedge funds and institutional investors, together with best practice from the asset management sector, the report investigates how sustainable investing is gathering momentum across the investment universe in this recording. Listen now!

Host: Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association, Tom Kehoe, CAIA, Managing Director and Global Head of Research and Communications, AIMA, Tony Cowell, Partner, Head of Asset Management, KPMG, Ben Blair, and Rebecca Palmer, KPMG

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CAIA APAC -The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship
Jul 22 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: Join a star-studded panel of asset allocators and thought leaders to reflect on the meteoric rise of alternative assets in the past twenty years and what this new decade holds for diversified portfolios. The session will also explore CAIA Association’s new four point call to action coinciding with a recently released thought leadership study on the profession

Panelists: David George, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets, of Australia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Future Fund, Jayne Bok, Willis Towers Watson and Minjun Kim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Strategic Asset Partners (SAP)

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CAIA Association and Duff & Phelps - Alternative Asset Valuation in the Best of Times, in the Worst of Times
Jun 23 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: A key challenge in the alternative investment industry is to provide investors with relevant and reliable valuation information on a regular basis. Many have asked, What is Fair Value? Do investors (LPs) WANT Fair Value? Why do we NEED Fair value. Listen to the recording of this webcast, where these questions were answered and there was a discussion on the practical steps fund managers and investors in non-traded or infrequently traded debt and equity investments take as they exercise their fiduciary duty to report independent and credible fair value information to investors and stakeholders.

Panelists: David Larsen, Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation, U.S. Duff & Phelps, Rishi Aswani, Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation, India Duff & Phelps, Bennett Cupit, Director, Portfolio Valuation, Hong Kong Duff & Phelps

Moderator: Jo Murphy, Managing Director, Industry Relations, Asia Pacific

Recording
CAIA Hong Kong Webinar: eSports/Video-Gaming Investment in the Public Market
May 20 2020 - 12:30pm Time zone: HKT

Description: In this recording Brian Oh, Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager, Saiga Capital Management LLC, and Rebekah Pang, CAIA, CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive take a look at eSports as an investment, examining the pluses and pitfalls of the sector from both the listed and unlisted perspective and discuss the opportunities that lie within the growing public market. This webcast lasts approximately 1 hour.  

Panelists: Brian Oh, Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager, Saiga Capital Management LLC, and Rebekah Pang, CAIA, CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive

Recording
CAIA Hong Kong Webcast : eSports/Video-gaming - Opportunities in Alternative Alternatives
May 6 2020 - 12:30pm Time zone: HKT

Description: This recording takes an in depth look at eSports as an investment, examining the pluses and pitfalls of the sector from both the listed and unlisted perspective and discuss the opportunities that lie within this growing market. This webcast lasts approximately 1 hour.

Panelists: William Hsu, Managing Partner, Head of Strategy & Innovation, Sustainergy Capital Limited, and Rebekah Pang, CAIA, CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive

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CAIA APAC Education Webinar - Leveraging Defensive Strategies in the Face of Market Volatility
Apr 14 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: Market volatility can be a powerful enemy of long-term performance. During times of heightened volatility, there is greater demand for broad market exposure with built-in control over market volatility. Listen in as Tianyin Cheng, Director of Strategy and Volatility Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices discusses how passive defensive strategies could help position portfolios to withstand market volatility, potentially help smoothing out equity market drawdowns and improve risk-adjusted returns. Recent market volatility puts these defensive strategies to the test.
This webcast session covers:

  • Design and characteristics of passive defensive indices that are broadly places into three categories: defensive equity, multi-asset, and volatility
  • Long-term and recent performance of passive defensive indices
  • How index-based risk management strategies can help align to client risk tolerance
  • Indexed annuity solutions evolving to multi-asset income generators and risk mitigators

Panelists: Jo Murphy, Managing Director, Industry Relations, APAC, CAIA Association and Tianyin Cheng, Director of Strategy and Volatility Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices

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CAIA APAC on ESG Investing - 25 Years of Success and Failure
Mar 19 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: This webcast features Robert Rubinstein, TBLI GROUP, Chairman & Founding Partner and Jo Murphy, Managing Director, APAC Industry Relations discussing the following themes regarding the ESG sector:

• ESG : Definitions, Background and Myths

• Where are we and where do we want to be?

• 25 years : What has been Achieved?

• Forces Pushing ESG and Impact

• Sustainable Investment – An Overview

• Consequences

• APAC : Opportunities

Panelists: Robert Rubinstein, TBLI GROUP, Chairman & Founding Partner and Jo Murphy, Managing Director, APAC Industry Relations, CAIA Association

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CAIA Virtual Chapter Educational Webinar: Operation Perfect Hedge - TipperX
Sep 27 2019 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: CAIA Association has the pleasure of inviting Tom Hardin, "The secret witness at the center of the biggest insider trading case in a generation." - The New York Times. Tom shared his legendary story on felony securities fraud - and how he came to be known as "Tipper X". 

"The Inside Story of Tipper X"

Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a hedge fund equity analyst focused on the technology sector. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the investment management industry. Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20 of the 80+ individual criminal cases in “Operation Perfect Hedge,” a Wall Street house cleaning campaign that morphed into the largest insider trading investigation of a generation. Since resolving his case in 2015, Tom was invited by FBI-NYC to speak to their rookie agent class in 2016 and now consults and speaks on conduct risk, ethics and compliance issues from his former frontline perspective. He holds a B.S. in Economics with a Finance concentration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Host: Jo Murphy, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, CAIA Association 

Guest Speaker: Tom Hardin, Owner, Tipper X Advisors LLC

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CAIA Information Session - APAC
Sep 25 2019 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: Listen in on the experts, CAIA CEO William Kelly alongside Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Jo Murphy, as they discuss CAIA Association and our flagship program, the CAIA Charterholder Designation in this quick 30-minute recording.

Host: Jo Murphy, Managing Director, APAC 

Guest Speaker: William "Bill" Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association

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What's new at CAIA? Association News & Industry Insights
Jun 24 2019 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Description: Listen in to CAIA CEO, William Kelly and Associate Director of CAIA’s Liaison Office in India, Shreekant Daga, as they discussed all things CAIA! This session provides news and developments about the CAIA Curriculum, the upcoming events, as well as market and industry updates and perspectives from June 2019.

Panelist: William "Bill" Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association and Shreekant Daga, Associate Director, Liaison Office, India, CAIA Association

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CAIA Charter Information Session
Apr 9 2019 - 12:00pm Time zone: HKT

Please join Jo Murphy, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, as she provides a brief information session about the CAIA Charter program and what the designation can do for you. The formal presentation will last approximately 20 minutes with 10 minutes for Q&A.

Recording

There are no upcoming infoseries in the region at this time.

CAIA Information Session - EMEA
Sep 30 2019 - 11:00am Time zone: BST

Description: Listen in as CAIA’s own CEO, William Kelly, and Millissa Allen, CAIA, Managing Director of Business Development, Americas, discuss CAIA Association and our flagship program, the CAIA Charterholder Designation, as well as the release of our fourth edition of the CAIA textbook.

Host: Millissa Allen, CAIA, Managing Director of Business Development, AMRS, CAIA Association 

Guest Speaker: William "Bill" Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association

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Spanish-speaker exclusive! Learn more about the CAIA exams - join a CAIA information session in Spanish
Dec 13 2018 - 12:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Por favor únete a Charles Alvarez, Associate Director of Financial Research y a Cody Durant, Assistant Director of Business Development para discutir en una breve sesión sobre el programa Charter de CAIA, y lo que la designación puede hacer para ti. La presentación formal durará aproximadamente 20 minutos con 10 minutos para preguntas y respuestas.

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Please join Charles Alvarez, CAIA, Associate Director of Financial Research & Cody Durant, Assistant Director of Business Development, as they provide a brief information session about the CAIA Charter program and what the designation can do for you. The formal presentation will last approximately 20 minutes with 10 minutes for Q&A.

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Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov discusses Factor and Asset Allocation: The Role of Networks and LASSO
Jul 16 2020 - 11:00am Time zone: EDT

Description: Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov will be speaking about the financial Industry needs for new Methods to model and explain the complex market behavior. The industry is in a state of transition. The Asset Management Industry must avoid over-fitting, and adjust findings for false discoveries. Using machine learning and predictive models, investors can find asset and factor allocation solutions. Implementing LASSO regressions help to derive asset and factor allocation. Network theory and predictive models help to derive portfolio allocation in a new way, which successfully captures economic relationships. However, it is inevitable to evaluate the new strategies in a manner consistent with the requirements in the brave new financial world. Adjusting the Sharpe Ratios and t-Statistics become inevitable in the new set up. The focus in the webinar is in the application of new tools in Investment Management.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Dr. Gueorgui Konstantinov, CAIA, FDP, Senior Portfolio Manager Fixed-Income and Currencies, LBBW Asset Management, and Keith Black, Ph.D.,CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director of Content Strategy, CAIA Association

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Michelle Seng Ah Lee discusses Challenges of Algorithmic Fairness in Financial Services
Jul 29 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: As the financial services sector increasingly adopts advanced algorithms, including machine learning and AI, there has been greater regulatory and public scrutiny on the potential for algorithms to replicate unfair bias and discrimination against disadvantaged groups, exacerbating existing inequalities. This webinar will walk through use cases in mortgage lending and in peer-to-peer lending to discuss the complex challenges of trying to make the algorithms "fair" in evaluating credit risk of minority groups.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Michelle Seng Ah Lee, PhD Researcher, Compliant & Accountable Systems Research Group, University of Cambridge

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Alireza Yazdani discusses Machine Learning Prediction of Recessions: An Imbalanced Classification Approach
Jul 8 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: We examine the problem of predicting recessions from a machine learning perspective. We employ a number of machine learning algorithms to predict the likelihood of recession in a given month using historical data from a set of macroeconomic time series predictors. We argue that, due to the low frequency of historical recessions, this problem is better dealt with an imbalanced classification approach. We apply measures to compensate for class imbalance and use various performance metrics to evaluate and compare models. With these measures in place, ensemble machine learning models predict recessions with high accuracy and great reliability. In particular, a Random Forest model achieves a near perfect True Positive Rate within the historical training sample, generalizes extremely well to a test period containing 2008-2009 financial crisis, and shows elevated recession probabilities during the last few months of 2019, associated with the tightened macroeconomic environment and worsened by global pandemic.

The presentation will last approximately 40 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for Q&A.

Panelists: Alireza Yazdani, Chief Data Scientist & Founder, Calcolo Analytics LLC

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FDP Information Session
May 12 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: FDPI Executive Director Mehrzad Mahdavi and Sr. Curriculum Advisor Hossein Kazemi will share how you can obtain your Financial Data Professional credential. Hossein will discuss the updated curriculum.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, and Hossein Kazemi, Senior Advisor, FDP Curriculum

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A Conversation with Woody Sherman about Computational Drug Discovery
May 6 2020 - 2:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: Join Mehrzad Mahdavi for a conversation with Woody Sherman as they discuss the role of AI/ML and high performance computing in drug discovery. Covid-19 use cases

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, and Woody Sherman, Ph.D., CSO, Silicon Therapeutics and Associate Professor at Umass Amherst

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A Conversation with Imir Arifi and Keith Black on Machine Learning Models in Credit Risk Analysis
Apr 29 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: This webcast features discussions from FDP Charterholder Keith Black and Imir Arifi, Trusted AI Evangelist at DataRobot on Machine Learning Models in Credit Risk Analysis. Mr. Arifi demos ensemble models in DataRobot and shows why FDP is important. That is, knowing the models and model parameters are more important than knowing how to program in python. This conversation lasts approximately 1 hour including Q&A.

Panelists: Keith Black, Ph.D.,CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director of Content Strategy, CAIA Association and Imir Arifi, Trusted AI Evangelist, DataRobot

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A Conversation with Rick Roche, CAIA on "The Evolution of Machine Learning in Investment Management"
Apr 22 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EDT

Description: In this recording Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sat down with Rick Roche, CAIA to discuss "The Evolution of Machine Learning in Investment Management." Our conversation is approximately 1 hour long.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Kathy Wilkens, Senior Advisor of Curriculum, FDP Institute and Rick Roche, CAIA, Managing Director, Little Harbors Investors

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A Conversation with Ganesh Mani on Data Supply Chain Management
Apr 7 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EST

Description: This recording features Kathy Wilkens, Mehrzad Mahdavi, and Ganesh Mani discussing the following topics: types of data, financial data sources, the buzz around alternative data, and more. Our conversation lasts approximately 1 hour including Q&A.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Kathy Wilkens, Senior Advisor of Curriculum, FDP Institute and Ganesh Mani, Adjunct Faculty, Carnegie Melon University 

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A Conversation with Mike Chen & George Mussalli on "An Integrated Approach to Quantitative ESG Investing"
Apr 1 2020 - 12:00pm Time zone: EST

Description: Listen in on this enlightening conversation FDP's Executive Director, Mehrzad Mahdavi had with Mike Chen and George Mussalli on their recent publication "An Integrative Approach to Quantitative ESG Investing." The conversation lasted about 1 hour.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Mike Chen, Ph.D., Director, Equity Investments, PanAgora and George Mussalli, Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, Equity Investments, PanAgora

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A Conversation with Michael Weinberg and Peter Strikwerda about "Autonomous Learning Investment Strategies"
Mar 25 2020 - 4:00pm Time zone: EST

Description: This webcast features Mehrzad Mahdavi and Aaron Filbeck discussing "Autonomous Learning Investment Strategies" and how it is rapidly transforming the investment management business with Michael Weinberg and Peter Strikwerda. This recording lasts approximately 1 hour.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Aaron Filbeck, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, Association Director of Content Development, CAIA Association, Michael Weinberg, Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, and Peter Strikwerda, Global Head of Digital & Innovation, APG

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A Conversation with Tony Guida, Executive Director, Senior Quant Research, RAM Active Investments
Mar 5 2020 - 10:00am Time zone: EST

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sit with Tony Guida, Executive Director, Senior Quant Research, RAM Active Investments. Tony work's primarily on extracting market inefficiencies from different sources from traditional fundamentals, market signals, alternative data, and machine learning. He also co-wrote and edited "Big Data and Machine Learning in Quantitative Investment," a FDP required reading! Our conversation lasts approximately an hour including Q&A.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Kathy Wilkens, Senior Advisor of Curriculum, FDP Institute and Tony Guida, Executive Director, Senior Quant Research, RAM Active Investments

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A Conversation with Joe Simonian, Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Data Science
Feb 27 2020 - 1:00pm Time zone: EST

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi speak with Joe Simonian, Co-editor of the Journal of Financial Data Science on cases of ML/Data Science for financial applications and their outcomes. Our conversation lasts approximately 1 hour including Q&A.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Kathy Wilkens, Senior Advisor of Curriculum, FDP Institute and Joe Simonian, Co-editor, Journal of Financial Data Science

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