Miquel Noguer Alonso Discusses Deep Reinforcement Learning for Asset Allocation in US Equities

Description: This webinar demonstrated the application of reinforcement learning to create a financial model-free solution to the asset allocation problem, learning to solve the problem using time series and deep neural networks. Using a deep reinforcement model on US stocks and different deep learning architectures, including Long Short-Term Memory networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Recurrent Neural Networks.

CAIA/AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp (June 15 - June 17)

Session 1: The State of Alternative Investments
Description:
 In this first session of the internship boot camp with AIMA & CAIA Association, we covered an overview of alternative investments and addressed current trends across the industry and asset classes. 
Panelists: Claire Sawyer; Relationship Manager, UniFi by CAIA™, CAIA Association, Michelle Noyes, CAIA; Managing Director, Americas, AIMA, and Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, FDP; Managing Director and Head of UniFi by CAIA™, CAIA Association

Wealth Management – Establishing a Roadmap to an Improved Client Experience

Description: With the intersection of product democratization and the evolution of advice in the wealth management space many questions arise: 

- What is the role of governance? 

- How important is product knowledge? 

- What is the true meaning of funded contentment beyond the four corners of your financial balance sheet? 

FDP Institute - In-depth Review of ProProctor (Remote Testing) with Prometric

Description: In this webinar, FDP Institute discussed the options for Candidates to take the FDP Exam

Option 1: At a Prometric Test Center (October 17-30, 2022)
Option 2: Via ProProctor (remote proctoring) from your home or office (October 30 & 31, 2022)

Panelists: Keith Black, PhD, CFA, CAIA, FDP, Managing Director, Program Director, FDP Institute

FDP Charter Information Session (Q4-2022 exam)

Description: There's never been a more crucial time to stand out. The transformative effect of data science on the finance industry requires today's finance professionals to understand the application of big data, data mining, workflow automation and machine learning in investment decisions. The Financial Data Professional (FDP) is a global designation for investment professionals with data science skills.

Stephanie Sorg, MSF, CAIA, Chapter Executive

Stephanie Sorg is Managing Principal, Investment Consultant at Meketa’s San Diego office. Previously she was Senior Vice President, Consultant, focusing majority of her time advising public pension, endowment, foundation and defined contribution clients regarding strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction and implementation, performance monitoring, investment policy development, manager research and Board education.

Rebekah Pang, CAIA, Chapter Head

Ms. Pang is Head of Marketing and Investor Relations for Astignes Capital – an Asian macro fund that launched in 2007. Prior to Astignes, Ms. Pang was a Director of Investor Relations with Turmeric Capital - a private equity start up based in Singapore. Before joining Turmeric, Ms. Pang was a Managing Director at Societe Generale (Newedge) for eleven years as Head of Hedge Fund Sales and Capital Introductions for Asia Pacific, based in both Hong Kong and Singapore. She also previously worked at KBC Alpha (PAAMCO) as a hedge fund analyst. Ms.