Africa's Opportunities: Making Money and Delivering Impact - Session 4 of a Series

Description: African private markets probably present the premier opportunity for investing to contribute to the UN's SDGs while also creating attractive financial returns. The potential for bringing solutions for the bottom billion, leveraging Africa's mobile infrastructure, is vast and being used by a lively and creative venture community with increasing numbers of later stage opportunities and the emergence of unicorns such as Zipline and Flutterwave.

Introducing a New Hedge Fund Dataset

Description: How to use a hedge fund database, based on open-sourced hedge fund return and how to gain access to the data and a slew of interesting examples. How do you efficiently clean and manage semi-structured data? Alex and Linus will demonstrate with examples based on factor analysis, correlations, and dispersions and explain why they probably should have picked a different programming language.

Real Estate in Africa: The Next Boom? - Session 3 of a Series

Real estate in Africa has been one of the most important investments and stores of value for local investors for decades. There are many historical and cultural significances to land on the continent and we are going to explore African real estate as an investable asset class for international investors and asset managers. In this webcast focused on African Real Estate moderated by Adam Camenzuli, CFA, CAIA, Dr.

Alternatives: From Optional to Essential

Moderated by CAIA's CEO, Bill Kelly, this event features guest speaker Pulkit Sharma, Managing Director, Head of Alternatives Investment Strategy and Solutions at J.P. Morgan. Bill and Pulkit discuss the recent J.P. Morgan Long Term Capital Market Assumptions Report with a focus on the evolution and expansion of alternative investments over the next 10 – 15 years. Topics discussed include: the objectives that alternative investments meet, the framework in which to allocate, and the challenges that are intrinsic to alternative investments.

AIMA Canada and CAIA Release Updated Risk Rating Guidelines for Hedge Funds, Alternative Mutual Funds and Private Credit Funds in Canada

Toronto – March 16, 2021 - AIMA and CAIA (‘the Associations’) have today published an updated risk rating system to promote the alignment of retail risk ratings at investment dealer firms with the historical risk-adjusted returns of funds within strategy indices.

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Real Estate in Africa: The Next Boom? - Session 3 of a Series

Description: Real estate in Africa has been one of the most important investments and stores of value for local investors for decades. There are many historical and cultural significances to land on the continent and we are going to explore African real estate as an investable asset class for international investors and asset managers. In this webcast focused on African Real Estate moderated by Adam Camenzuli, CFA, CAIA, Dr.

Chronicles: March 2021

March 2021 Chronicles FI

Let’s face it, we’re all nerds and “numbers people.” As investment professionals, we like to follow the ups and downs of major indices, rely on our long list of ratios, and get on our high horses (or Twitter) when we notice a trendline or performance indicator that others are missing. Sometimes, however, our knack for the numerical gets in the way. But, in manager selection, we have to remember we are hiring teams, full of human decision-makers. That must count for something, right?

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