Asia-Pacific

Description: ESG is no longer a mere add-on in a portfolio or investment strategy. For an increasing number of investors in alternatives, a thoughtful approach to ESG issues has become table stakes. As the industry continues to define the role of ESG and develop approaches to measure and analyze the effect of these issues on their portfolios, industry professionals must continue to educate themselves about the key trends and developments related to ESG across alternative asset classes.

Session 1: The State of Alternative Investments
Description: The world of alternative investments continues to grow and change. Nearly US$10 trillion in assets have flowed into the alternative investment industry in the last fifteen years. Now alternative investments are starting to show up in mutual funds and ETFs. What might the future hold?

Description: Join CAIA Association and MSCI to discuss the key takeaway from MSCI's latest real estate market size report. Find out what were the drivers of the market size changes and which markets have shown the greatest growth, or decline. Gain an understanding of the factors impacting global real estate.

Panelists: Hariharan G G, Vice President, Index Management Research, MSCI, and moderated by Jack Wu, CFA, CAIA, Director, Content, Asia Pacific, CAIA Association

Session 1: Venture Capital and SPACs
Description: The SPAC wave in the U.S has captured the attention of global financial markets. Different exchanges are exploring ways to offer SPAC listing. What must investors consider when investing into a SPAC? How does SPAC compare against traditional IPO and Private Equity?

Description: On average, venture capital and buyout funds experience a performance falloff after seven to eight years, while the cross-sectional dispersion amongst them increases. Join the authors of “The Evolution of Private Equity Fund Value”, published in The Journal of Alternative Investments, as they discussed their research findings, which represents the first large-sample analysis of buyout and venture capital fund values over their lifetimes.

Description: In this second webinar of our Tokenisation focus series, we explored some of the recent developments on Tokenisation and where the opportunities lie. We also discussed some of the applications of Tokenisation and what promise it holds for alternative assets.

Description: Listen in on a conversation with CAIA's Managing Director, APAC, Jo Murphy and Director of Content, APAC, Jack Wu on the current market and education's place in this complex environment, whilst keeping you informed of the current market growth alongside where career prospects are within the sector.

Description: Finance has several theoretical traditional and modern frameworks in practice. Needless to say, often the frameworks have conflicting assumptions. Structured finance is often a route to challenge the status quo in finance and explores opportunity in the face of constraints while simply using first-order products. Structured finance transactions often rely on providing tailor made covenants to facilitate deal making.

Description: Tokenisation is the process of creating a digital representation of a non-digital asset, with the potential to democratize access to alternative investments. Joanne Murphy, Jack Wu, CFA, Emmanuelle Pecenicic and Adrian Lai take a focused look at Tokenisation and discuss the recently published research on The Future of Tokenisation in Alternative Investments by CAIA Association, BNP Paribas Asset Management and Liquefy to better understand the broad spectrum of Tokenisation across all of the categories broadly defined as being “alternative”.

Description: Interest in Private Markets investment continues to abound around the world, and no more so than from the Asia Pacific. Widely held belief sees a strong and sustained demand ahead. The asset classes making up Private Markets are both likely to demand a disproportionate share of the growth in investment allocations, as well as a likely increased disproportionate allocation of capital flowing to the larger player funds. How will this impact the sector? What does it mean for both Investors and Investments in the Asia Pacific?