{"id":39446,"date":"2013-12-06T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39446"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:36:05","slug":"aima-announces-new-chair-and-deputy-chair-of-investor-steering-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2013\/aima-announces-new-chair-and-deputy-chair-of-investor-steering-committee.html","title":{"rendered":"AIMA announces new Chair and Deputy Chair of Investor Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The global hedge fund association(AIMA) has announced a new Chair and Deputy Chair of the AIMA Investor Steering Committee (ISC), which features leading institutional investors in hedge funds from around the world and undertakes educational initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The new Chair is Michelle McGregor-Smith, Chief Executive, British Airways Pension Investment Management Ltd, and the Deputy Chair is Kurt Silberstein, Managing Director, Alternative Investments, Ascent Private Capital Management, a subsidiary of U.S. Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Ms McGregor-Smith is an adviser to the Investment Committee of the Health Foundation, a UK based charity, and a member of the UK Advisory Council of the CFA Institute. A member of the ISC since 2009, she co-authored the ISC\u2019s investors\u2019 views and preferences paper in 2011 and wrote the foreword to Beyond 60\/40: The evolving role of hedge funds in institutional investor portfolios, which was published in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI have enjoyed working with my ISC colleagues and AIMA on the various projects and research initiatives undertaken in the last few years, and I look forward to collaboration with a broadened ISC which will add new insights and experience to further the work of the Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Ascent in August 2011, Mr Silberstein worked for 12 years at CalPERS. He has been a key contributor to many of the ISC\u2019s publications over the years, including being a co-author of the first edition of AIMA\u2019s Roadmap to Hedge Funds guide for investors in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Silberstein said: \u201cI look forward to working with AIMA and the ISC in furthering its efforts to providing information and addressing specific issues associated with investing in alternatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their appointments coincide with an expansion of the ISC, which now includes more than 20 institutional investor members who collectively manage over $800 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>AIMA CEO Andrew Baker said: \u201cI would like to pay tribute to Michelle and Kurt, who have been among the ISC&#8217;s strongest supporters in recent years. The ISC now comprises pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds from every region of the world and goes from strength to strength.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The global hedge fund association(AIMA) has announced a new Chair and Deputy Chair of the AIMA Investor Steering Committee (ISC), which features leading institutional investors in hedge funds from around the world and undertakes educational initiatives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16025,3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39447,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446\/revisions\/39447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}