WEBINAR
Fundamentals of Commodities and a Market Update
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Commodities may serve as an important element of an investment portfolio. Get an overview of commodities as an asset class; explore the historical performance of commodities and consider their role in asset allocation and inflation protection.
Compare commodities to other financial assets as Keith Black, Managing Director, Content Strategy, CAIA Association, provides various methods of gaining exposure to commodities and discusses futures-based commodities investments.
Take a deeper dive into current topics in commodities investment, such as evaluating rising inflation and the possible implications for performance, as viewed by Dr. Keith Black and Kathryn Kaminski, Chief Research Strategist and Portfolio Manager at AlphaSimplex Group, moderated by Mateja Bizjak, Portfolio Manager at Fideuram Asset Management.
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09:00 AM N. America West Coast
12:00 PM N. America East Coast
05:00 PM London
06:00 PM Europe
08:00 PM UAE
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The program will begin promptly. |
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Keith Black, PhD., CAIA, CFA, FDP
CAIA Association
Kathryn Kaminski, PhD., CAIA
AlphaSimplex Group
Mateja Bizjak, CAIA
Moderator
Fideuram Asset Management (Intesa Sanpaolo)
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Keith Black, PhD., CAIA, CFA, FDP
Managing Director, Content Strategy, CAIA Association
Keith Black has over thirty 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 Content Strategy 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 second, third, and fourth editions of the CAIA Level I and Level II curriculum. 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 both CAIA and FDP members.
Kathryn Kaminski, PhD., CAIA
Chief Research Strategist and Portfolio Manager, AlphaSimplex Group
As Chief Research Strategist at AlphaSimplex, Dr. Kaminski conducts applied research, leads strategic research initiatives, focuses on portfolio construction and risk management, and engages in product development. Dr. Kaminski is a member of the Investment Committee. She also serves as a co-portfolio manager for the AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy and AlphaSimplex Global Alternatives Strategy. Dr. Kaminski joined AlphaSimplex in 2018 after being a visiting scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. Prior to this, she held portfolio management positions as a director, investment strategies at Campbell and Company and as a senior investment analyst at RPM, a CTA fund of funds. Dr. Kaminski co-authored the book Trend Following with Managed Futures: The Search for Crisis Alpha (2014). Her research and industry commentary have been published in a wide range of industry publications as well as academic journals. She is a contributory author for both the CAIA® and CFA® reading materials. Dr. Kaminski is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has taught at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. Dr. Kaminski earned an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT where her doctoral research focused on stochastic processes, stopping rules, and investment heuristics. Dr. Kaminski is also a CAIA® Charterholder and 100 Women in Finance CAIA Charter Scholar.
Mateja Bizjak, CAIA
Portfolio Manager, Fideuram Asset Management (Intesa Sanpaolo)
Mateja Bizjak is a Portfolio Manager on the Multi-Asset Absolute Return team at Fideuram Asset Management in London. Previously, she was at Unigestion analysing liquid alternative strategies and hedge funds. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at GAM where she was evaluating hedge funds, focusing on global macro, commodity, credit, and equity long short strategies, since 2004. Mateja holds a BA (Hons) in Business Administration (finance major) from Kingston University, CFA Certificate in ESG Investing and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charter holder.
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CAIA
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