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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 |
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
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
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