The Rise of India’s Private Equity Market - APAC

Description: Our new report “CAIA Insights: The Rise of India’s Private Equity Market” has been released, where we showcase insights, spotlight opportunities, and summarize our call to action for this fast-evolving sector. Combining commentary penned by leading PEVC industry specialists, alongside CAIA’s crafted content, and supported by our knowledge and data partner – Venture Intelligence – we position tangible insights, actionable intelligence and provide knowledge on a market too big to ignore.

Allocating Capital to NFTs: A Panel Discussion co-hosted with CAIA Atlanta

By now, you probably know what an NFT is. You have also probably heard of the staggering sums being made by individuals. More recently, several funds have launched that are approaching investing in NFTs in an institutional manner. CAIA is excited to have put together a panel of Funds to discuss the various approaches being used to invest in this emerging asset class. We reviewed the term NFT,  how NFTs are valued as well as some of the investment strategies being employed. This panel will be followed a few weeks later with a practicum on how to buy NFTs.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments Bring Together Industry Organisations to Address Diversity in Alternatives

Today the SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, announced it has created a forum of alternative investment industry organisations committed to addressing diversity in the alternatives industry. 

Focus on Africa: Pension Funds: The Importance of Diversification - Series 2 - Episode 2

Diversification and digitalization are key factors in this challenging as well as shifting economy, in which African institutional investors juggle between currency restriction, language barriers and government regulation. During this webinar we speak about how to diversify investments by allocating to Alternative investments while complying to ESG standards.

JADAA / FDP Institute / CAIA Association: Using Alternative Data in Financial Markets

Quantitative investors have long used traditional data sources, such as income statements and balance sheets of public firms, to drive stock selection models. With the explosion in the amount and diversity of data in the last five years, alternative data sources are quickly revolutionizing quantitative investing. Alternative data sources can include natural language processing of news and social media content, review of credit card transactions and consumer emails, and geolocation data using cell phone signals and satellite images.

Allocating Capital to NFTs: A Panel Discussion co-hosted with CAIA Atlanta

Description: By now, you probably know what an NFT is. You have also probably heard of the staggering sums being made by individuals. More recently, several funds have launched that are approaching investing in NFTs in an institutional manner. CAIA is excited to have put together a panel of Funds to discuss the various approaches being used to invest in this emerging asset class. We reviewed the term NFT,  how NFTs are valued as well as some of the investment strategies being employed.

Focus on Africa: Pension Funds: The Importance of Diversification - Series 2 - Episode 2

Description: Diversification and digitalization are key factors in this challenging as well as shifting economy, in which African institutional investors juggle between currency restriction, language barriers and government regulation. During this webinar we speak about how to diversify investments by allocating to Alternative investments while complying to ESG standards.

Meghan Burke, CAIA, Chapter Executive

Ms. Burke is a Director, Capital Markets, at CenterSquare, with 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. She is responsible for investor relations and business development initiatives across the real assets platform. Prior to joining CenterSquare, Ms. Burke was a Vice President at BlackRock, where she most recently focused on real asset product strategy and investor relations. She previously held sales roles in the BlackRock US Wealth Advisory channel, and began her career with the Vanguard Group. Ms.