The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the global professional body for the alternative investment industry, has unveiled a completely redesigned and refreshed Fundamentals of Alternative Investments (FAI) program.
FAI, the flagship offering of the UniFi by CAIA platform, was created almost a decade ago to provide a foundation of core concepts in alternative investments, filling a crucial education gap for a wide range of professionals, particularly those in wealth management and sales and marketing roles for alternative asset managers.
"The first generation of FAI played a critical role at a time when alternatives were just starting to go mainstream," said Aaron Filbeck, managing director and head of UniFi by CAIA. "Now, we’re once again at a pivotal moment where a broader range of alternative strategies are being brought to market and used by an ever-larger contingent of the wealth manager, planner, and advisor communities. There is far mo