Event Profile

CAIA Australia Educational Brown Bag Lunch - Wednesday, December 13th, 2017

Date(s):
December 13, 2017
Note:
All times listed are in local time
Venue:
Credit Suisse
1 Macquarie Place Level 31, Gateway
Sydney, 2000 
Fee(s):
Free Event
Description:
CAIA Australia Educational Brown Bag Lunch
 
If you are registered to take the CAIA exams, if you’re thinking about registering to sit the exam, or if you’ve taken our exams and was not successful, or if you simply would like to learn more about the alternative investment industry and the CAIA programme, then this is the event for you.
 
Prof. Keith Black, CAIA's Managing Director, Curriculum and Exams will discuss the CAIA programme and walk through your questions so as to help you tackle the CAIA exam!
 
Don’t miss this opportunity for a conversation and time with a core crafter of the CAIA programme during his visit to Australia.
 
This event will also be held in Melbourne. 
 
Guest Speaker
 
Prof. Keith Black, CAIA, CFA
Managing Director, Curriculum and Exams
CAIA Association

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Keith Black has over twenty-five years of financial market experience, serving approximately half of that time as an academic and half as a trader and consultant to institutional investors. He currently serves as Managing Director of Curriculum and Exams for the CAIA Association. During his most recent role at Ennis Knupp + Associates, Keith advised foundations, endowments and pension funds on their asset allocation and manager selection strategies in hedge funds, commodities, and managed futures. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading, stock options research and CBOE floor trading, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds. Dr. Black previously served as an assistant professor and senior lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He contributes regularly to The CFA Digest, and has published in The Journal of Wealth Management, The Journal of Trading, The Journal of Investing, and The Journal of Alternative Investments, among others. He is the author of the book “Managing a Hedge Fund,” as well as the co-author of the 2012 and 2015/2016 second and third editions of the CAIA Level I and Level II textbooks. Dr. Black was named to the Institutional Investor magazine’s list of “Rising Stars of Hedge Funds” in 2010. Dr. Black earned a BA from Whittier College, an MBA for Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and was a member of the inaugural class of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) candidates. Follow Keith Black on Twitter @CAIA_KeithBlack