Venue
The Loews Miami Beach Hotel
The Loews Miami Beach Hotel, 1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA

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Event Date Tue Jan 31 EST - Wed Feb 1 EST (almost 2 years ago)
Location The Loews Miami Beach Hotel
1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
Region Americas
Details

Hailed as the leading networking event for the alternative investments industry, MFA Network 2023 welcomes top active allocators, fund managers and leading industry service providers from around the globe for invaluable, in-person, one-on-one allocator meetings, educational programming and peer-to-peer, investor led discussions. Join us for unparalleled thought-leadership on emerging investment issues and trends that are critical to allocators and fund managers across all strategies in a post COVID-19 world. All meetings are facilitated through our digital platform, the MFA Conferences and Events App.

The event in-person conference provides:

• private manager suites for one-on-one meetings
• a balanced allocator to manager ratio
• leading institutional pension, endowment and foundation consultants
• three full days of networking and unparalleled content
• a dedicated concierge service to assist with platform offerings

Speakers

2023 Speakers

Diana Amoa
CIO, Long Biased Strategies, Kirkoswald Asset Management

Mark Attanasio
Director of Absolute Return Strategies, General Motors Pension

Yale Baron
Co-CIO, Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C.

Jordan Barrow, CFA
Co-Head of Liquid Credit, Portfolio Manager, Shenkman Capital

Mark Baumgartner
Chief Investment Officer, Carnegie Corporation

Catherine Beard
Senior Vice President, Alternatives Consulting, Callan

Afsaneh Beschloss
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RockCreek

Jan-Paul Bruynes
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Christopher Burton
Global Head of Commodities, Credit Suisse Asset Management

Elizabeth Burton
Managing Director, Client Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Pablo E. Calderini
President and Chief Investment Officer, Graham Capital Management, L.P.

TJ Carlson
Chief Investment Officer, Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System

Allen Cheng
Associate Partner, ESG Investment Lead, Alternatives Research, Aon

Young Choi
Partner, Portfolio Manager – Rockford Tower, King Street Capital Management

Dr. John Claisse
CEO, Albourne Group

Nicholas Cormier
Portfolio Manager, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Dylan Curley
Global Head of Business Development, U.S. Bank Global Fund Services

Emil Dabora, PhD
Senior Portfolio Manager, Event Driven, Tudor Investment Corporation

Subhasis Das
Senior Portfolio Manager, State Board of Administration, Florida

Derek Drummond
Portfolio Manager-Funds Alpha, State of Wisconsin Investment Board

Luke Ellis
CEO, Man Group

Erik Falk
Head of Strategy, Magnetar Capital

Frederic Favre
Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Alpstone Capital

Anne-Marie Fink
Private Markets & Funds Alpha Chief Investment Officer, State of Wisconsin Investment Board

Jillien Flores
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Head of Global Government Affairs, Managed Funds Association

Marcus Frampton
Chief Investment Officer, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation

David Francl
Managing Director, Absolute Return, San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System

Greg Galligan
Senior Managing Director, Head of Direct Lending, Vista Credit Partners

Sander R. Gerber
Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Hudson Bay Capital

Jonathan Glidden
Chief Investment Officer, Delta Air Lines

Jamie Gnall
Senior Vice President, Alternatives Client Solutions, Wilshire Advisors LLC

Nick Granger
Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Jody A. Gunderson
Managing Principal, AB CarVal

Matt Halbower
Founder, Pentwater

Anders Hall
Chief Investment Officer, Vanderbilt University

Jan Hatzius
Chief Economist and Head of Global Investment Research Division, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Kenneth J. Heinz
President, HFR Inc.

Elizabeth M. Hewitt
Chief Investment Officer, Senior Vice President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, Tudor Investment Corporation

Jason Josephiac
Senior Vice President, Research Consultant, Marketable Alternatives, Meketa Investment Group

Simon Judes
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Winton Group

Stephen King
Author, Columnist and Senior Economic Adviser, HSBC

James Ko
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Arizona Public Safety Retirement System

Paul Kreiselmaier
Head of Hedge Funds, Verus Investments

Raelan Lambert
Global Alternatives Leader, Senior Partner, Mercer

Atul Lele
Portfolio Strategist, Bridgewater Associates

Jimmy Levin
Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Sculptor Capital Management

Kim Lew
CEO and President, Columbia Investment Management Company

Wei Li
Global Chief Investment Strategist, BlackRock

Andrew W. Lo
Charles E. & Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Chris Longworth
Investment Director, GAM Systematic

Farouki Majeed
Chief Investment Officer, Ohio School Employees Retirement System

Dharmesh Maniyar, PhD
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Maniyar Capital

Edouard Matitia-Cohen
Global Head of Equity Financing Distribution, Bank of America

Alice Mok
Executive Director, Capital Introduction, UBS

Louis Molinari
Managing Director, Barclays

Sam Monfared
VP – Research Insights, Preqin

Edward A. Mulé
Founding Partner, Portfolio Manager & CEO, Silver Point Capital

Brian Neale
Vice President of Investments, University of Nebraska Foundation

Ric Ochman, CFA
Head of Quant Capital Introduction, JP Morgan

Andrew Palmer
Chief Investment Officer, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System

Carlos Rangel
Chief Investment Officer, Kellogg Foundation

David S. Richter
Managing Director, Investment Committee Chair, Absolute Return Strategies, GCM Grosvenor

Jackie Rosner
Managing Director, PAAMCO Prisma

Dylan Ross
Partner and Co-Head of Structured Credit, Brigade

Neha Santiago
Head of Real Estate Private Credit, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.

Jonny Schulhof
Co-Founder and CEO, Footprint Ventures

Kunjal Shah
Chief Investment Officer, Lyxor Asset Management, Inc.

Greg Sharenow
Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Nathan Sheets
Global Chief Economist, Citigroup

Paul Singer
Founder, President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Elliott Investment Management

Donna Snider
Chief Investment Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health

Michael Soss
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Millburn Ridgefield Corporation

Roark Stahler
US Head of Strategic Consulting, Barclays

Mark Sullivan, CFA, CMT
Senior Managing Director, Partner, Head of Global Macro, Wellington Management

David Sultan
Chief Investment Officer, Fir Tree Partners

Dan Sundheim
Founder and Chief Investment Officer, D1 Capital Partners

Lamar Taylor
Interim Executive Director/Chief Investment Officer, Florida State Board of Administration

Daniel Tenengauzer
Head of Markets Strategy, BNY Mellon

Noah Theran
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Head of Global External Affairs, Managed Funds Association

Osei Van Horne
JP Morgan

Mithra Warrier
Managing Director Head of North American Capital Introductions, Citi

Trent Webster
Senior Investment Officer, Strategic Investments, Florida State Board of Administration

Steven Wilson
Director, Public Markets, Teacher Retirement System of Texas

John Withrow
Principal, AB CarVal

Anthony A. Yoseloff
Executive Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer, Distressed Investments, Davidson Kempner

John Young
Chief Investment Officer, Orchard Global

Justin Young
Director, Portable Alpha, South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission

Phil Yuhn
Portfolio Manager, Man GLG

David Zervos
Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies LLC

Nancy Zimmerman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Bracebridge Capital

Sponsors & Partners

2023 Sponsors and Partners

PRIME PARTNERS:
• Akin Gump
• BofA Securities
• Barclays
• HSBC
• J.P. Morgan
• Schulte Roth and Zabel
• Wells Fargo

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Cboe
• Citi
• Coinbase
• Lowenstein Sandler

GOLD SPONSORS:
• BNY Mellon
• CME Group
• Credit Suisse
• First Republic
• vGoldman Sachs Asset Management
• Northern Trust
• PGIM Fixed Income
• PIMCO
• Societe Generale
• US Bank Global Fund Services
• UBS

SILVER SPONSORS:
• PGIM Quantitative Solutions
• Trading Technologies

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• Hedge Fund Alert
• HFR
• Preqin

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF MFA:
• Delta