The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is a leading educational and advocacy group for the global hedge fund industry. The association has doubled both staff and revenue over the last 5 years, and looks to continue its global efforts under the leadership of new CEO Jack Inglis.
In this Opalesque.TV interview, Mr. Inglis sits down with Opalesque.TV to discuss AIMA’s past and future efforts to meet the growing demands from their members, primarily driven by the expansive and increasingly complex global regulatory changes they face in running their management firms and operating in the market. To address this demand, AIMA has grown significantly in its government and regulatory affairs department, in order to assist members in navigating these changes and also to assist regulators around the world in reaching appropriate outcomes through direct advocacy efforts.
He sees the hedge fund industry as having enormous growth potential for capital inflows, as sophisticated investors have long-term time horizons and continue to invest in hedge funds as valuable additions to their portfolio mix and diversification objectives. Mr. Inglis is optimistic that future growth could reach $5 trillion, possibly within the next 2-3 years. Within this context of potential growth, the organization’s focus is on the great body of work that remains to be done on educational and regulatory fronts for policymakers and regulators, AIMA members, and the whole spectrum of stakeholders, including shareholders and the general public.
Learn more about:
- AIMA’s educational and advocacy role as hedge fund allocations could increase to $5 trillion
- The ‘Apples and Apples’ AIMA report on understanding hedge fund performance
- The flaw of comparing aggregated hedge fund indices and equities indices like the S+P 500
- Report by German academics shows strong empirical evidence of a strong correlation between capital market size and GDP growth
- Using empirical evidence to drive regulators’ decision-making
- Significant regulatory overlaps between derivatives reforms in the US and EU will impact AIMA members
- Coordinating Asia Pacific regions into AIMA’s global efforts, and developing a presence in China
Jack Inglis became the Chief Executive Officer of AIMA in February 2014. Previously, Jack was at Barclays, where he oversaw the bank’s European Prime Services Distribution business and was a member of the Global Executive Committee for Prime Services. His career spans over 30 years, during which time he has held senior positions across a range of sectors including equity-financing and the fixed income space. For three years he was CEO at Ferox Capital Management, a convertible specialist investment management firm with hedge funds and long-only funds. Before that he spent 16 years in a variety of senior roles at Morgan Stanley, latterly as co-Head of the European Prime Brokerage business. Jack has a degree in economics from Cambridge University.
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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is a leading educational and advocacy group for the global hedge fund industry. The association has doubled both staff and revenue over the last 5 years, and looks to continue its global efforts under the leadership of new CEO Jack Inglis.
In this Opalesque.TV interview, Mr. Inglis sits down with Opalesque.TV to discuss AIMA’s past and future efforts to meet the growing demands from their members, primarily driven by the expansive and increasingly complex global regulatory chan
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