About The Roundtable
Bringing together the best minds in the alternative investment industry.
With investors, fund managers and prominent industry professionals coming together to promote education and best practices within the alternative investment industry, you get the opportunity to interact with some of the industry’s most insightful leaders and experts — a group including Nobel prize winners, trendsetters, alternative investment fund managers, investment analysts, and philanthropists, among others. We’re pushing boundaries to help foster new and improved standards for the alternative investment industry.
Event List
Wall Street Women – 2021
DEI Workshop: Men as Allies
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Exclusive Insights
Gain exclusive insights from top minds in the alternative investment industry and see investing as you never have before.
Engaging Events
Our events are well known for promoting and encouraging interesting, lively and thoughtful discussions between industry professionals.
Professional Networking
Make invaluable connections within the alternative investment industry at monthly events that foster interaction among attendees.
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Join us for monthly events and calls as we bring together the brightest minds and thought leaders in the alternative investment industry.
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Glenview Capital Management founder Larry Robbins is upbeat about the development of Covid-19 vaccines, making him optimistic about some sectors but still wary of others. “For the first time in this battle, in the last several weeks there’s been real light at the end of the tunnel,” Robbins said Thursday at the New York Alternative…
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NYAIR Episode 58 –Morgan Creek’s Mark Yusko on the Future of Finance: Trends in Fintech
A discussion with Mark Yusko, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management and the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, about current trends in fintech. Mark shares his insights into how disruptive technologies like blockchain are poised to alter the landscape of the payment system and the nature of money. As a…
Read MoreNYAIR Episode 57: The Changing PE Landscape –The Impact of COVID, Political Change & Various Other Factors
A panel discussion with industry leaders and experts about some of the ways the private equity industry is changing and adapting to current events -from the global COVID-19 pandemic, to a new political administration and looming issues such as climate change. Among topics covered in this conversation are: The rising importance of the SPAC market…
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Why the ‘Gold Rush’ for SPACs Worries Some Private Equity Managers
By Christine Idzelis, Institutional Investor Blank-check companies create competition for deals — but buyout firms are also benefitting. The rise in blank-check companies — a boon to private equity firms looking to cash out from their deals — is worrying some managers. “It feels a little bit like a gold rush to me,” said James…
Read MoreWith Recoveries Like This, Who Needs Recessions?
By Diane Swonk, chief economist, Grant Thornton The U.S. economy grew at a 4% pace in the fourth quarter of 2020 after surging 33.4% during the third quarter. That marks two consecutive quarters of gains, which many use as a rough rule of thumb to declare the economy in a recovery instead of a recession.…
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