Event Profile

CAIA Luxembourg Educational Event: Protecting your Portfolio from Inflation with Dr. Keith Black

Date(s):
January 25, 2018
Note:
All times listed are in local time
Venue:
KPMG Luxembourg
39, Avenue J.F. Kennedy L-1855
 
Fee(s):
Free Event
Description:

Please join CAIA Luxembourg on January 25th for a presentation from Dr. Keith Black, Ph.D., CAIA, CFA, Managing Director of Curriculum and Exams, at CAIA

Protecting your Portfolio from Inflation: The Case for Real Assets

Many investors are seeking to add assets to their portfolio that can be effective in hedging increasing rates of inflation. Assets that have been considered to hedge inflation risk include equities, real estate, commodity futures, farmland, timberland, inflation-linked bonds, infrastructure and master limited partnerships. Each of these assets varies in its ability to hedge inflation risks, as well as in the liquidity provisions.

Time and Date
Thursday, January 25, 2018
from 6:30PM to 8:30 PM

Location

KMPG Luxembourg
39 Avenue JF Kennedy
Luxembourg , L-1855

Parking lots are available inside the building for event participants

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Keith Black
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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 Alternatives Investments, among others. He is the author of the book “Managing a Hedge Fund,” as well as 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 from 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. Dr. Black is available to speak on the following topics. Most presentations are less technical talks for a general audience, while those on VIX, smoothing, and hedge fund replication are advanced talks for more technical audiences.