Event Profile

CAIA Hong Kong Education and Networking Event with CAIA's Managing Director, Curriculum and Exams - Prof. Keith Black

Date(s):
April 26, 2017
Note:
All times listed are in local time
Venue:
Fringe Dairy, Fringe Club
2 Lower Albert Road
Central  
Fee(s):
Free Event
Description:
 
In appreciation of your support, we would like to invite you to the exclusive CAIA Hong Kong Education and Networking Event to be held on Wednesday, 26th April at 6:30pm.
 
You will also have the opportunity to hear from CAIA's Managing Director, Curriculum and Exams, Professor Keith Black. Keith will present a review of the Global Alternative Investment Industry - presenting his recently crafted paper as well as an important review of recent additions to our body of knowledge contained with CAIA’s recently published Third Edition Curriculum.
 
Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
 

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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.