>During a period of market volatility or difficulty, alternative investment managers have the opportunity to differentiate themselves by evidencing the ability to continue to produce consistent, positive net monthly returns...more...

"After eight years as a mortgage derivatives specialist on Wall Street at Prudential and Lehman Brothers, I decided to make a career change and went to work as a hedge fund marketer"...more...

Joe Omansky, CEO of SkyFund LLC, is looking to help people make better investments. After his tenure on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and...more...

“Investor and regulator confidence in public companies, hedge funds, private equity, and banks has suffered greatly in the recent credit crisis,” says Kurt Schacht...more...

Winners of Opal Financial Group's second-annual awards ceremony were announced during a luncheon on Thursday, May 15 at the Chicago Marriot Downtown Magnificent Mile in Chicago, IL. The awards were held in association with Opal Financial Group's Fifth Annual Emerging Managers Summit, held May 14-16...more...

As the name of the conference implies, the Institutional Investor Education Benefit Forum seeks to build a foundation of new talent by getting the investment community to give back...more...

Investment risk and valuation professional, Dr. Susan Mangiero, AIFA, AVA, CFA, FRM is a woman with a mission - help institutional investors understand hidden risks, whether they manage assets themselves or outsource to others...more...

E. Lee Hennessee, managing principal of the Hennessee Group LLC, started her career teaching 3^rd grade, before going on to earn a Masters degree in Education at Harvard. She eventually dropped out because she didn’t like teaching early child hood development. It’s difficult to teach ABCs and 123s to 8-year-olds even though she enjoys it. In her opinion, elementary school teachers should be paid more than college professors...more...

Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan, a co-founder and President and CEO of New York City-based Proctor Investment Managers shares with us her experience with emerging managers in this Women’s Corner.  Proctor, a strategic private equity investor in the asset management industry, concentrates on emerging managers by investing in and partnering with them to help develop growth...more...

As cofounder of Progress Investment Management and then founder of Leading Edge Investment Management, Clayton Jue can be described as a pioneer of the still growing emerging manager space...more...

Myrna Rivera is the founder, president and CEO of Consultiva Internacional, Inc. based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Consultiva is an investment management consulting firm, led by Rivera who has accumulated 25 years of experience as an investment management consultant...more...

The emerging manager as we know it today has come a long way since the early origins of the term. The evolution of this blossoming investment manager has not been mapped more meticulously than by Thurman White, President and CEO of Progress Investment Management Company LLC...more...

Michelle Lowery, Senior Investment Analyst with the State Retirement Agency of Maryland, talks about her new position and bridging the gap from CPA to overseeing investment managers...more...

Advent Software is a familiar name to many investment managers ranging from the largest hedge funds to the smallest emerging managers, thanks to its visionary CEO and founder, Stephanie DiMarco. Currently Advent’s products are used by over 4,500 global money managers, including Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Merrill Lynch, managing $14 trillion in combined assets...more...

The one thing challenging about asset management, believes Tina Byles Williams, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of FIS Group, a Philadelphia based fund of funds, is that it’s unpredictable. “Nothing is certain,” says Williams...more...

An eclectic background gave Brooke Farley, an independent marketer and placement agent, an edge in becoming a successful fundraiser in the private equity market. With a background in research, consulting—even international and public affairs, Farley brings a unique perspective to the industry...more...

Ever the independent thinker, Lesa Sroufe is seeking institutional investors, but on her terms. “I am probably not a good fit for narrowly focused mandates that certain large pension funds require.”more...

Aofinn Devitt’s decision to start London based Clontarf Capital in September 2006 not only tested her entrepreneurial skills, but gave birth to an advisory firm that offers an all encompassing approach to alternatives...more...