News & Events

Berlin’s Blockchain Week (September 5-11) is anchored by some of the world’s best events on the topic, including Dezentral, an inclusive conference of newcomers, builders, and longtime holders from around the globe for a full day of panels and discussions. Marcos Veremis of Cambridge Associates’ Endowment & Foundation Practice, will provide insights on how institutional investors consider and leverage blockchain investment opportunities. Visit Website »

Vish Ramaswami, a Managing Director focused on identifying and managing private investment opportunities in the APAC region for our clients, will be presenting on the current state of the Asian private equity market. Visit Website »

Gordon Barnes, Head of Operational Due Diligence at Cambridge Associates, will participate on the panel “Attracting Investors Through Optimal ODD” at HFM’s event focused on the pressing issues facing hedge funds in Massachusetts and the surrounding areas. Barnes will offer his perspective around how due diligence questions and processes have evolved over the past decade, how the use of data technology has impacted the ODD process, how hedge funds can demonstrate operational excellence, and more. Visit Website »

Scott Martin, Investment Director for endowments and foundations, will participate in Pensions & Investments’ Investing in China’s Future Breakfast Briefing Series, where he’ll join the “Innovation and the Expansiveness of the Opportunity Set” panel to discuss public and private market opportunities in China for institutional investors. Other discussion topics for the panel include AI, ESG, sector-focused private investments, and managing risk. Scott will participate in both events of this Breakfast Series, in Chicago on September 13 and New York on September 20. Visit Website »

From a healthy earnings growth outlook and a broad based economic expansion to escalating trade tensions and tightening monetary policy, there is much for investors around the world to consider in the current investment climate. Our moderator, Annachiara Marcandalli, Managing Director & Co-Head of the Endowment & Foundation Practice in London, will address where we are in the market cycle and what to do about it with Aaron Costello, Managing Director, Capital Markets Research, Celia Dallas, Chief Investment Strategist, and Michael Salerno, Senior Investment Director, Capital Markets Research. This event is for Cambridge Associates clients only. Click here to register.

Sona Menon, an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer and Head of Cambridge Associates’ North American Pension Practice, will be participating on an institutional investor roundtable at the Asian American Association of Investment Managers (AAAAIM)’s National Conference in Los Angeles. The theme for the conference is “Optimize: Risk & Return” and Menon will offer insights from her experience serving pension plans as their outsourced CIO. Also attending from Cambridge Associates will be Dave Baeckelandt (pensions), Ashley Cohen (MRI), Jean Lu (CA Capital), and Kenneth Tom (private client). For the second year in a row, Cambridge Associates is a sponsor for AAAIM’s National Conference and partnered with the organization, which aims to further diversity and inclusion efforts among US public pension plans, on their first Boston-based event in early 2018. Visit Website »

Scott Martin, Investment Director for endowments and foundations, will participate in Pensions & Investments’ Investing in China’s Future Breakfast Briefing Series, where he’ll join the “Innovation and the Expansiveness of the Opportunity Set” panel to discuss public and private market opportunities in China for institutional investors. Other discussion topics for the panel include AI, ESG, sector-focused private investments, and managing risk. Scott will participate in both events of this Breakfast Series, in Chicago on September 13 and New York on September 20. Visit Website »

Jeff Blazek, an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer for pensions and head of Cambridge Associates’ New York office, will be presenting the keynote at a breakfast event hosted by the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE), where he’ll share his insights around the institutional investment outlook and pension strategy. Visit Website »

The Impact Investing Forum brings industry influencers together to provide investors with the opportunity to explore various approaches to impact investing and discuss challenges and opportunities within the current landscape. This year, we’re pleased to have Jean Case, Chairman of the National Geographic Foundation and CEO of the Case Foundation, the Honorable Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles, and Terry Tamminen of The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation as our keynote speakers.

The Trustee Conference is an annual event for trustees, board members, and investment committee members of institutional investors. At this educational forum, experts and thought leaders will explore institutional portfolio management and strategy in today’s environment.