CAIA/AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp Session 3: Practitioner Career Panel

In this third web seminar, Rom Beneche, Director, AIMA, as he hosted a panel of industry professionals talking about their career paths and how they made it from their university days to the roles they hold today. Panelists covered a range of investment and non-investment roles in the alternatives industry.

If you have further questions, please reach out to the panelists from the session below:

FDP Charter Information Session (Q4-2022 exam) - APAC

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.

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

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. These architectures are compared with more traditional portfolio management approaches like mean-variance, minimum variance, risk parity, and equally weighted.

Zhong Liang, CAIA

Just over 2 years ago, I received the CAIA Association Scholarship Award to attempt the CAIA Charter. I am glad to have made the most out of it and gained a deeper understanding of this growing industry.

It’s hard to refute by now that returns in the next decade are going to be much lower than the last decade. In fact, some might even argue we are in a new regime which low rate is here to stay. Naturally, alternative investments have become the go to space to hunt for higher uncorrelated returns.

FDP Charter Information Session (Q4-2022 exam)

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.