Introduction to Alternative Investments: Compendium (Readings in Alternative Investments) - Softcover

Jain, Sameer

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798710341384

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Introduction to Alternative Investments; Compendium

This book is a compendium of select presentations and papers authored by Sameer Jain. The alternative investments universe consists of investments outside of publicly traded real estate, equity, and debt. It includes investments ranging from private commercial real estate, hedge funds and managed futures, liquid alternatives to illiquid private equity funds, and real asset and natural resource partnerships. As part of a larger series, the book serves as a primer and introduces the busy executive to the world of private and actively managed liquid and illiquid investments.

• An Introduction to Alternative Investments
• Considerations in Allocating to Alternative Investments
• Active Risk in Asset Allocation
• Alternative Investments Building Blocks - Illiquid Assets
• Alternative Investments Building Blocks - A Quick Guide to "Quant-Speak"
• Alternative Investments Building Blocks - Ten Commandments for Alternative Asset Allocation
• Alternative Investments Building Blocks - Analyzing Manager Performance
• Due Diligence Framework for Direct Investing
• The Case for a Durable Income

About this title

About the Author

Sameer Jain is founder and an engaged shareowner of ActiveAllocator Activist Capital Advisors L.P., an investment firm bringing private equity and hedge fund convergence around activist events. His 25-year career includes investment banking, alternative investments, and entrepreneurial fintech. He has provided critical advice, formulated white papers and analysis for activist sponsors, as well as provided defense feedback to target public companies. His banking experience includes shareholder advisory, shareholder activism and raid defense, contested and hostile M&A. As a portfolio manager he devised and implemented trading strategies which harvested volatility and excess abnormal returns surrounding activists' actions. 
He also created and operated fintech ActiveAllocator.com, the world's first system that seamlessly integrates traditional, illiquid, and alternative investments within portfolios.
Prior, he was Managing Director across six AR Capital publicly listed companies (NYSE and NASDAQ) and brokerage firm RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE: RCAP). Before that he headed Investment Content & Strategy, as well as all illiquid investing at UBS Alternative Investments (NYSE: UBS) in New York. Preceding this he was at Citigroup (NYSE: C) within the ICG and Alternative Investments groups in New York. His early career was at Cambridge Alternative Investments and SunGard System Access (formerly NYSE: SDS) in Dubai and New York.
He has written ~30 Wall Street research reports and academic papers, book chapters on investments, coauthored an investments book "Active Equity Management", presented at over hundred industry conferences, and visited ~80 countries.
Mr. Jain has graduate degrees in engineering, business administration, public administration and is an alum of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798710341384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144