Nathan Peters, CAIA, Chapter Executive
Nathan currently manages liquid alternatives portfolios at Aware Super in Sydney. He has allocated to liquid alternatives for over twenty years in roles in London and New York. Nathan has a BA in International Studies and Philosophy from Macalester College.
FDP Institute - In-depth Review of ProProctor (Remote Testing) with Prometric
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)
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.
CAIA/AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp Session 2: Alternative Data and ESG Investing
In this second session of the internship boot camp with AIMA & CAIA Association, we covered the differences between traditional and alternative data, applications of both, and how it relates to ESG investing.
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.
CAIA/AIMA Alternative Investment Boot Camp Session 1: The State of Alternative Investments
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.
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.


