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AMHERST, MA — Striving to offer more investment professionals in Europe access to alternative investment education, the CAIA Association is pleased to announce the opening of a certified test center in Moscow, Russia. Upon registration for the CAIA Level…
With Asia ex-Japan creating over US$7 Trillion in new millionaire wealth and rapidly moving up the HNW league table - and with China in particular maintaining a top spot in recent years - it should come as no surprise that investors and portfolio…
Shortly before the financial crisis of 2008, I received my CAIA Charter.  My reasons for taking the tests and pursuing the designation might be similar to yours: To provide a well thought out structure to my knowledge of alternatives and to better…
I recently chaired a Bloomberg discussion, targeted at small or growing hedge funds, offering advice on what investors are looking for.  My panelists all had between 10 and 20 years of experience in the hedge fund or institutional asset management…
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In keeping with their collaborative mission of enhancing the alternative investments industry through educational programming and professional leverage, 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC (PAAMCO), and…
  Christopher M. Schelling, CAIA, and Sanjay Patel., CAIA candidate, have been selected as recipients of Institutional Investor’s 12th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. Recipients are “individuals who are playing an increasingly significant role in…
The era of the robo-advisor—put your retirement goals into the retirement calculator and get your “personalized” asset allocation—is over. The 60/40 equities/fixed-income prescription is a thing of the past. Alternative investments that are accessible to…
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Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) is pleased to announce a global partnership with the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association. In response to the global growth of alternative investment products, DeAWM is partnering with…
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        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 100 Women in Hedge Funds and CAIA Foundation Announce the 2014 CAIA Designation Scholarships   NEW YORK, NY and AMHERST, MA, May 27, 2014—100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), Pacific Alternative…
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My First 100 Days… As a result of destiny or maybe irony, my 100th day as the CEO of CAIA was not spent in Amherst, Boston, or anywhere else in the United States.  In fact this milestone was reached almost 4,000 miles away in Zurich, which was my…