Opening the Gate: A Brief Review of the DOL’s Proposed Rule on Alternatives in 401(k) Plans and Revisiting CAIA’s Position</h1> <article> <h1>Opening the Gate: A Brief Review of the DOL’s Proposed Rule on Alternatives in 401(k) Plans and Revisiting CAIA’s Position</h1> <p>sconnors — April 08, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By CAIA Association’s Leadership Team</strong></span></p><p> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Capital with a Compass: How the Gulf Is Rewiring Global Private Markets</h1> <p>sconnors — April 07, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Laura Merlini, CAIA, CIFD, Managing Director, EMEA, CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p> </p> </article> <article> <h1>From Short-Termism to Stewardship: What APAC Boards Need to Lead in a Geopolitically Fragmented Era</h1> <p>sconnors — March 31, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue" lang="EN-HK"><strong>By Nick Pollard, Managing Director, APAC at CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Listening for the Signals of a Rewired World</h1> <p>sconnors — March 24, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CFP®, CIPM, FDP, Managing Director, Content & Community Strategy, CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p><br><span>Something has felt different over the past few years.</span></p><p><span>Maybe you noticed it sitting in an investment committee meeting or reading through a manager update. Or maybe just in the way conversations inside your own firm have quietly started to change.</span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Thermal Renaissance: Why Gas-Fired Generation is Infrastructure Again</h1> <p>Paulina — March 18, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Aaron Vale, CAIA, CFA, MFin, Global Managing Director, Mexico Infrastructure Partners</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p>In recent years, owning a natural gas power plant in the U.S. felt tenuous. Today, it can be among the most coveted assets in private infrastructure portfolios. Investors who recognized this shift early have been rewarded. Understanding what changed, and what it means for investors, requires tracing an arc from boom to bust, and back again.</p> </article> <article> <h1>A CAIA Mini Course: A Real Estate Focus on the Crypto Tokenization of Real Assets - Part Two</h1> <p>sconnors — March 10, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Stylianos Kampakis PhD, CEO, Tesseract Academy</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><span lang="EN">In this CAIA mini-course, we introduce the work of Stylianos Kampakis PhD, CEO of Tesseract Academy, and member of the Quantum Finance Boardroom. Each installment of this series will present a new chapter in Dr. Kampakis’ work on real estate tokenization.</span><br> </p><p><span lang="EN"></span></p><p><span lang="EN"><strong>How It Works: Lifecycle and Design Decisions</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Suffering from Success: How Infrastructure Became Too Big to Ignore</h1> <p>sconnors — March 05, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CFP®, CIPM, FDP, Managing Director, Content & Community Strategy, CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span>What happens when all you do is win, win, win…no matter what?</span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Cryptos, Stablecoins and Sovereign CBDCs</h1> <p>sconnors — March 03, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"><em><span>How should SWFs and Asset Owners rethink crypto assets in 2026? </span></em></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue" lang="EN-GB"><strong>By Winston Ma, Partner of Dragon Global Family Office; Former MD, China Investment Corp (CIC)</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></p> </article> <article> <h1>No Exit, No Problem? How Asset Owners Can Tame Illiquidity Risk</h1> <p>Paulina — February 24, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Andreas Rothacher, CFA, CAIA Head of Investment Research at Complementa AG & Richard Sanders, CFA, Head of asset allocation and manager selection at Cöoperatie VGZ</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Is Quantum Technology the Next Great Alternative Asset?</h1> <p>sconnors — February 17, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Andre Costa, CAIA and Oswaldo Zapata, PhD</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p> </article> <article> <h1>The Continuation Vehicle Boom: Structural Shift or Liquidity Patch?</h1> <p>sconnors — February 11, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue" lang="EN-GB"><strong>By Koen van Mierlo, MSc, LLM, CFA, CAIA, Head of Analysis at Bluemetric Wealth Advisory.</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>A thirst for liquidity</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>The TPA Roadmap for GPs: From Parts Provider to Chief Problem Solver</h1> <p>sconnors — February 09, 2026</p> <div class="SCXW237107191 BCX0"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW237107191 BCX0"><p lang="EN-US"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By John L. Bowman, CFA, Chief Executive Officer, CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p> </p><p class="text-align-center" lang="EN-US"><em><span lang="EN-US">If our entire pitch book is based on the beauty contest mentality of us vs. them, we will be speaking a foreign language, eventually an offensive one, to the TPA CIO.</span></em><span> </span></p></div></div> </article> <article> <h1>A CAIA Mini Course: A Real Estate Focus on the Crypto Tokenization of Real Assets</h1> <p>Paulina — February 04, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Stylianos Kampakis PhD, CEO, Tesseract Academy</strong></span></p><p><br><span lang="EN">In this CAIA mini-course, we introduce the work of Stylianos Kampakis PhD, CEO of Tesseract Academy, and member of the Quantum Finance Boardroom. Each installment of this series will present a new chapter in Dr. Kampakis’ work on real estate tokenization.</span></p><p> </p><p><a name="_heading=h.4e1uearzd2ie"></a><strong><span lang="EN"></span></strong></p> </article> <article> <h1>Crypto Chart Patterns: Insights for Tactical Trading</h1> <p>sconnors — January 30, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Fernando Walter Lolo, CAIA</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Participant’s Trilemma: Learning from Other DC Plans Around the World</h1> <p>sconnors — January 27, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CFP®, CIPM, FDP, Managing Director, Content & Community Strategy, CAIA Association</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Bank-Level Lessons for Private Credit Valuations</h1> <p>sconnors — January 20, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By John Sedunov and Michael Pagano</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Alignment Over Access: Gauging the Fit Between Alternative Investment Strategies and their Fund Structures</h1> <p>sconnors — January 14, 2026</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By John W. Moore, CFA®, CAIA®, CMT®, Stratview Wealth Management</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><div class="text-align-center video-responsive"></div><p> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Vision 2035: Riyadh Edition</h1> <p>sconnors — January 02, 2026</p> <p class="text-align-center"><br><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Laura Merlini, CAIA, CIFD, Managing Director, EMEA, CAIA Association</strong></span></p><p> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Unlocking Liquidity: The Case for Securitized Private Credit Markets</h1> <p>sconnors — December 30, 2025</p> <p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Shreyash Shrivastava, FRM and Shubham (Sam) Goyat, CAIA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span><strong>Why Private-Credit Liquidity Now?</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Institutional Custody Dilemma: Balancing Centralization and Self-Custody in Digital Asset Portfolios</h1> <p>sconnors — December 22, 2025</p> <p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Kate Zogaj</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><span lang="EN"><strong>Introduction: Custody as the Defining Question of Institutional Digital Asset Adoption</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Utility Tokens in Portfolio Allocation: The Digital Counterparts to Commodities</h1> <p>sconnors — December 15, 2025</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue" lang="EN-GB"><strong>By Tatja (Tati) Karkkainen, PhD, Research, Development and Innovation (RDI), Kiitot</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Utility tokens represent a distinct category within the digital economy. They connect blockchain technology to online services such as storage, computation, and communication.</span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Private Credit Risk Management in Evergreen Funds</h1> <p>sconnors — December 08, 2025</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Mark Garfinkel, Sr. Portfolio Manager at Liquid Strategies, LLC</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-center"> </p><p><span>As the private credit market surges toward $3 trillion in assets<sup>1</sup>, concerns are growing over the potential formation of a bubble—driven by too much capital chasing too few high-profile lending opportunities. Rather than focusing on whether the market is in a bubble, this article explores how to strategically manage risk within a private credit portfolio.</span><br> </p> </article> <article> <h1>A Deep Dive into Staking Yields as a Source of Return</h1> <p>sconnors — December 02, 2025</p> <p class="text-align-center"><br><span class="pale-blue" lang="EN"><strong>By Jasmin Muelhaupt, CAIA, Director of Financial Product Development at 21Shares AG & Darius Moukhtarzadeh, CDAA, Research Strategist at 21Shares AG</strong></span></p><p class="text-align-justify"><strong><span lang="EN"></span></strong></p><p class="text-align-justify"> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Credit Where Credit Is (Over)due: Private Credit’s Second Act</h1> <p>sconnors — November 26, 2025</p> <p> </p><p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CFP®, CIPM, FDP, Managing Director, Content & Community Strategy, CAIA Association</strong></span></p> </article> <article> <h1>Educational Alpha: Democratizing Humility Before Product</h1> <p>sconnors — November 25, 2025</p> <p class="text-align-center"><span class="pale-blue"><strong>By William J. Kelly, CAIA, Founder & Managing Member, Educational Alpha LLC</strong></span></p><p><br> </p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW23519103 BCX0"><p><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>“Private equity employees used to aspire to own their own jets, but now they just want to afford their children’s private school tuition, he said”… </strong></span></em><span> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW23519103 BCX0"><p><span lang="EN-US"></span><span> </span></p></div> </article> </main></body></html>