CAASA Annual Conference 2023 | CAASA - Canadian Association of Alternative Strategies & Assets | 7 October 2023 | Hôtel William Gray, 421 R. Saint-Vincent, Montréal, QC H2Y 3A6, Canada

This conference is our flagship, premier, and most coveted conference.
Who Attends?
• The conference will bring together speakers and participants from private and public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, single and multi-family offices, consulting firms, investment dealers, Canadian and global investment management houses, and affiliated service providers. Panels and break-out sessions will focus on key issues facing investors and managers in Canada and elsewhere including structuring, legal & tax issues, IT and operational areas, and investments – including: hedge funds, CTAs, private equity, private lending, real estate, infrastructure, and crypto-assets/blockchain-related investments.

2022 Past Speakers

KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:

Tanya Carmichael
Strategic Advisor, ESGTree

Claude Lamoureux
Inaugural President & Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Marlene Puffer
President and Chief Executive Officer, CN Investment Division

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS:
Steve Drobny
Managing Partner – Clocktower Group

Christophe L’Ahelec
Managing Director, Public Markets – University Pension Plan Ontario

Wagner Dada
Managing Director – CPP Investments

Jon Feintuch
Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager – New Holland Capital (NHC)

Marco Salerno
Principal, Total Portfolio – Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)

Roger Lee
Director of the Financial Mathematics Program and Associate Professor of Mathematics – University of Chicago

Maria Clara Rendon
Director, Responsible Investing – University Pension Plan Ontario

Jamy Kallikaden
Portfolio Manager – CPP Investments

Dave Finstad
Former Managing Director, Partnership Portfolio – BCI

Patrick Augustin
Associate Professor of Finance – Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

Leia Levand
Director – Innocap Investment Management

Darryl Orom
Portfolio Manager, Public Equities – Alberta Investment Management Corporation

Mohamed Farid
Principal Portfolio Manager – Pension Fund of the World Bank Group

Sudharshan Sathiyamoorthy
Vice President and Head of Manager Research – Richter Family Office

Constance Everson
Managing Director – Capital Markets Outlook Group, Inc.

Deborah Ann Trott
Founder and Director – Trott Lombardo Consulting

Sandy Poiré
Senior Investment Officer – CN Investment Division

Bahi Kandavel
Founder & CEO – Northstar Trading Group

Pierre-Philippe Ste-Marie
Visiting Researcher – Bodhi Research Group

Jamie Leanne Ronson
Senior Researcher, Asset Mix, Research & Economics – Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)

Annie Sorich
Senior Director, Strategic Planning – Public Sector Pension Investment Board

Cem Usakli
Senior Director, Capital Markets Alternatives – PSP Investments

James Burron
President & Co-Founder – CAASA

Ranjan Bhaduri
Founder & CEO – Bodhi Research Group

Caroline Chow
Founder, Happy Health & Partner and Co-Founder – CAASA

Mackenzie Putici
In-house Sommelier, CAASA & Founder – New World Wine Tours and Eating Through TO