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CloseExperienced professionals from Hong Kong, Switzerland, and the U.S., respectively, bring a diversity of thought and experience to the Board as CAIA Association continues its drive to professionalize the industry in preparation for the Portfolio for the Future
Greg Brown’s research centers on alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity funds. He also is a leading expert on financial risk and the use of derivative contracts as risk management tools. He is the founder and research director of the Institute for Private Capital, faculty director of the Hodges Scholars Program and a member of the Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) advisory board.
Jayne Bok is the Head of Investments, Asia, based in Hong Kong. She is responsible for leading WTW’s Investments business strategy, client delivery and business development across Asia. Jayne leads a diverse regional team to help clients meet their goals and achieve better outcomes through a flexible range of delivery models – from providing proprietary tools, offering advisory services, through to assisting clients with implementation via delegated solutions. She has more than 23 years of industry and leadership experience.
Description: This CAIA Association and Teneo webinar discussed “Leadership Alpha in Private Equity”, the latest in the series of value creation research publications recently published by Teneo. Leadership is the most important driver of company performance and, therefore, a fundamental component of Operational Alpha.
In this episode our hosts continue to examine commitment strategies, the challenges, and opportunities, as well as liquidity and the fear of the unknown. Listen in.
This episode is all about performance. Our hosts discuss “what have you done for me lately?” through the lens of alternative investment, in particular - private equity, the j-curve, capital calls, and capital returns. Listen in.
Developing reliable and intuitive interpretation is essential for the application of machine learning to investing. This presentation discussed a framework for decomposing any machine learning model into linear, nonlinear, and interaction effects that drive both prediction and performance. With a case study of predicting US large cap stock returns, this presentation showed how the "Model Fingerprint" tool enables practitioners to summarize key characteristics, similarities and differences among different models, thereby enhancing their understanding of the market.
In this revealing episode, hosts Bill Kelly, CAIA CEO and Steven Novakovic, Managing Director, CAIA Curriculum discuss the evolution of allocating alternative investments as a science or art — or both?! Listen in!
Neal Loftus joined Apollo in 2022 in the Client & Product Services Team as a Principal in Apollo's Institutional RIA Group. He is part of a team that manages the firm's relationships with large RIAs, family offices, and bank trusts throughout the Midwest. Prior to joining Apollo, Neal was a Director at Barings. Prior to that, Neal was a Director of Fixed Income at PT Asset Management. Neal graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a BA in Finance, and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Certified Investment Manag
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