CAIA China Chapter Launch
Celebrate the official launch of CAIA's
20th Global Chapter, as William Kelly, CEO of the CAIA Association welcomes the newly appointed CAIA China Executive Committee Members.
CAIA China Chapter Launch
Education and Networking Event will be held in TWO cities:
Beijing
Monday, January 26th, 2015
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
The Westin Beijing Financial Street, 9B Financial Street
Shanghai
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai, 88 Henan Central Road
Programme
6:30pm Registration and Networking
7:00pm Remarks by William Kelly
7:10pm Remarks by Jo Murphy
7:20pm Presentation by Prof. Keith Black
8:00pm Cocktail Networking Reception
About Our Speakers
William (Bill) J. Kelly, CEO of the CAIA Association, is an asset management industry veteran with extensive managerial and boardroom experience gained through successive CFO, COO, CEO and Independent Board director roles. He has led both start-ups and full scale global organizations. Bill is the former CEO of Robeco Investment Management, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based global asset management organization with over $200 billion of assets under management, where he oversaw all aspects of United States business, including portfolio management, distribution and product development. He also was responsible for the strategic growth, introduction, and positioning of new managed products in the US and Europe, including alternative investments. Bill was a founder and former CEO of Boston Partners Asset Management, a self-funded partnership enterprise, which became one of the industry’s largest and most successful start-up money management organizations. Previous to that, he served as CFO of The Boston Company Asset Management and earlier in his career held various positions at Bear Stearns and was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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JO MURPHY, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, CAIA Association
Jo has been in Asia for over 17 years, predominantly based in Hong Kong but with two valuable years spent in Singapore. She has held a number of senior Asia Pacific management positions, successfully leading sales, business development, marketing and client relationship management divisions for major institutions and has both built and managed large and effective regionally located teams.
Jo was expatriated to Hong Kong, with Morgan Stanley, in early 1997 and has worked for a number of global institutions during her time in Asia covering intermediary, buy and sell side, entrepreneurial and most recently an education business environment throughout the Alternative Investment industry.
In 2000 Jo joined HSBC Securities Services (previously Bank of Bermuda) as Head of Sales for the Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong and moved on to Head of Sales Asia (ex Japan) and Product Specialist for all alternative investment products at Deutsche Asset Management in 2005. In 2008 Jo rejoined the ex-Head of Bank of Bermuda / HSBC at Triple A Partners. In early 2011 Jo was invited to join the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the international leader in alternative investment education and provider of the CAIA designation, as Managing Director for Asia Pacific.
Jo enjoys the reputation of being hard-working, capable, committed and commercial, and was voted “Asia’s most influential woman in the alternative sector” and also one of “The 25 most influential people in Asian hedge funds” by the industry’s leading AsianInvestor magazine. Jo also was a founding member of the Hong Kong AIMA Chapter and has been an Executive Committee Member since its inception.
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PROF. KEITH BLACK, Ph.D., CAIA, CFA, Managing Director, Curriculum and Exams, CAIA Association
Keith Black has over twenty 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 at First Chicago Capital Markets, stock options research and CBOE market-making for Hull Trading Company, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds for Chicago Investment Analytics. Dr. Black previously served as an assistant professor and senior lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart school, where he taught courses in both traditional and alternative investments.
He contributes regularly to The CFA Digest, and has published in a number of journals, including The Journal of Trading, The Journal of Investing, The Journal of Alternative Investments, and The Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds. He is the author of the book "Managing a Hedge Fund," as well as a contributor to the second of edition of the CAIA Level I and Level II textbooks. Dr. Black was named to 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.
CAIA China Chapter Leadership
ROSELIN QU, CAIA, Investment Manager, CITIC Private Equity Funds
Roselin Qu is an investment manager at CITIC Private Equity Funds. She has rich experience in energy and cleantech investment. Previously she was an investment manager at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) network fund, mainly focused on early and growth stage investments in cleantech and TMT in China. Prior to DFJ, Roselin has been a project manager at Shell China for many years and engaged in acquisition of gas stations and strategy planning. She was one of the core initial members of Shell China's retail joint ventures in Chongqing and Xi'An.
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SONGYI (DENNIS) DENG, CAIA, Derivative Trader, Alternative Investment, Everbright Securities
Experience:
Derivative Trader
Everbright Securities-Alternative Investment
June 2012 – Present
Investment Risk Manager
Everbright Securities
2009 – June 2012
Education:
University of Durham
Master's degree, Financial Management
2007 – 2009
Wuhan University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, International Economics and Trade
2003 – 2007
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XIANG GAO, CAIA, Assistant Professor, School of International Business and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Xiang Gao has been actively involved in the CAIA exam working group and founding chapter activities in China. He is currently an Assistant Professor at School of International Business and Administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research interests focus on the effect of a country’s institutional quality on private external borrowing, the quantification of operational risk, and China’s alternative investment products. He earned a Bachelor of International Economics and Trade from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a master of Economics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Doctoral degree in Economics from Iowa State University. In addition to the CAIA designation, he also holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), the FRM (Financial Risk Manager), and the FAIQ (CII) (Financial Advisers’ International Qualification) designation. He is also the founder of the first operational risk event data vendor---CORD (Chinese Operational Risk Database, www.cord-oprisk.com)--- in China.
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BRUCE LI, CAIA, General Manager and Managing Director, China Business of Canyon Capital Advisors
Bruce Li received his CAIA Charter in 2010, and has been actively involved as a member in China. He is the General Manager and Managing Director of China business of Canyon Capital Advisors, one of the leading global hedge funds. Previously, Mr. Li was a Managing Director at Silver Valley Capital Group’s JV business (Silver Wayne) and the Co-Founder and Principal of Silver Valley Capital Group’s Private Equity Fund. Mr. Li received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. He is also a CFA, FRM and CAIA charterholder, and holds all six Chinese securities and futures practice qualification certificates. He serves as an Expert Advisor for Hedge Fund Journal which is co-created by CFA China and CBN (China Business Network).
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DAVID MALONE, CAIA, Founder, Wayne Capital Partners Ltd.
David Malone is founder of Wayne Capital Partners, an alternative investment firm focused on hedge funds and agriculture real assets. David completed his MBA at the Wharton School and BS in Finance at the University of Alabama.
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MARKO SCHAFFRICK, CAIA, Head of Portfolio Management, Ping An Russell Investment Management
Marko Schaffrick is the Head of Portfolio Management for Shanghai-based Ping An Russell Investment Management where he oversees the management of USD 1.2 billion in mainland China securities employing a multi-strategy approach. Prior to setting up Ping An Russell Investment Management in 2011, he was a portfolio manager for Russell Investments in London. There in 2008 he helped design, setup and manage an alternatives and traditional strategies fund platform. He was also involved in the firm’s China A share manager research efforts and other China investment related activities. Marko joined Russell Investments (UK) in 2006 as a member of the US equity portfolio management team managing USD 6 billion across several US equity strategies. Before joining Russell, he was an associate director at Thomson Financial London where he set up and managed the firm’s EMEA oil, gas and energy desk. Prior to that, he worked in the United States as a buy-side analyst covering global equities for Saturna Capital. He received a B.A. in Finance from Western Washington University in 2000 and earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations in 2003 and 2009, respectively.
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VINCENT WANG, CAIA, Managing Partner, Promise Advisors
Vincent Wang is the founding and managing partner of Promise Advisors. Promise Advisors is a boutique investment advisory firm in mainland China, specializing in providing customized advisory services to local institutional investors and family offices on alternative asset allocation. Promise Advisors has been elected as the Qualified PE fund Advisor for China National Social Security Fund and many top china insurance companies. Vincent has advised dozens of fund investments by institutions and families during last three years.
Previously, Vincent was the BD and Research Director of ChinaVenture Group, which is widely recognized as one of most influential research and media companies among China PE/VC industry. Vincent started his career at a top-tier law firm, where he advised many top PE clients on their market entry strategy and investment structuring. Vincent graduated from Peking University Law school as LLM and is a certified Chinese lawyer. Vincent passed both levels of CAIA exam during 2013 and got the CAIA designation at the end of the same year.
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JIA (GARNEL) XU, CAIA, Senior Product Manager, Pacific Asset Management Company
Jia Xu graduated from the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Master of economics degree majoring in International Finance, in 2008. In 2005, Jia graduated from Beijing Technology and Business University receiving a Bachelor of Finance degree majoring in Security Investment. Jia worked for the SooChow Fund Asset Management Company as a financial engineer analyst and product manager from 2008 to 2010. He was mainly responsible for designing equity funds, bond fund. Jia worked as a financial engineer for the China International Fund Asset Management Company from 2010-2014 mainly designing equity funds, bond funds and hedge funds. He currently works for the Pacific Asset Management Company as a Senior Product Manager mainly designing bond funds, FOF and alternative funds.
In addition to holding the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) designation, Garnel is a charter holder of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).