The AIF Institute provides institutional investors with customized educational programs and promotes their collaboration through its Centers of Excellence.
The AIF Institute and Centers of Excellence create customized educational programs and presentations, in collaboration with AIF Institute Faculty Members comprised of industry leaders—global investors and leading investment firms—and complemented by the AIF Academic Board. The AIF Institute’s ability to customize the programming to the ever-changing needs of the investor community provides a unique interaction among investors, AIF Institute faculty, and all AIF stakeholders.
The AIF Institute identified the need for the Centers of Excellence as a resource for institutional investors’ investment programs and portfolios facing unique and evolving challenges in the markets and macro environment. The AIF Institute is launching four key Centers of Excellence throughout 2021, including:
- Center for ESG and Sustainable Investing
- Center for Insurance Investing
- Center for Private Capital Investing
- Center for Financial Innovation
Center for ESG and Sustainable Investing
Leading, actionable research in key focus areas, including climate, governance, and diversity through the lens of risk management and investment opportunity
Center for Insurance Investing
Focuses on issues relevant to insurance companies as they invest their general account portfolios, including risk-based capital charge and other regulatory matters, asset-liability matching, and other financial reporting and tax matters
Center for Private Capital Investing
Focuses on analysis of leading research and investor education relating to private markets and alternative investments in Private Equity, Private Credit, Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Diversifying and Opportunistic Strategies
Center for Financial Innovation
Focuses on investments in digital assets, the use of big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data science to improve performance at the investment and portfolio levels, and the exploration of new financial ideas and structures
Among the World’s Most-Respected Thought Leaders in Finance Academia
AIF is proud to be affiliated with the world’s leading finance academics. AIF’s Academic Board is chaired by Harvard Business School Professor of Investment Banking Josh Lerner.
The AIF Institute will provide a forum for these academics to foster the work of each Center by showcasing both their research and research from leading investment firms and investors.
The AIF Institute Center for Financial Innovation (CFI) Hosts Inaugural Symposium
Keynote Interview: Technology Over the Last Two Decades
Featuring: Oliver Albers, Executive Vice President, Head of Investment Intelligence, Nasdaq; Interviewed by: Melissa Waller, President, AIF Institute
The CFI is devoted to the study of new and evolving investment tools, ideas and structures. It has three core areas of study: (i) decentralized finance, including digital assets and other blockchain-based technologies; (ii) data analytics and the use of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve investment performance and processes; and (iii) other financially innovative ideas and structures arising out of finance academia, institutional investing and asset management.
