Equity Risk Management

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Ricardo Cortez, Co-CEO of Broadmark Asset Management, an $1.4 billion San Francisco-based tactical investment manager which manages long/short strategies. He shares with us his background of how he got into investing, his outlook for the hedge fund industry, including the greatest opportunities and challenges, and how he is championing DEI on both a firm-level and throughout the alternative investments industry as a whole.

Outlook for the Fund of Hedge Fund Industry

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Luis D’Amato, Partner and Portfolio Manager of Aston Capital Management, a Florida-based multi-family office, which also manages a multi-strategy fund of hedge funds.
He shares his background of how he got into investing, his outlook for the fund of hedge fund industry, including the greatest opportunities and challenges in the space, how he is inspiring more Latinos to foray into money management, and how his firm is embracing Diversity Equity & Inclusion.

Climate Change

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Tom Soto, Founder and Managing Partner of the Diverse Communities Impact Fund (DCIF), a Latino-owned lower middle market impact-focused private equity fund based in Los Angeles. Soto, the two time appointee of former President Bill Clinton and Team Lead for The Executive Office of the President’s Transition Team for the White House Council on Environmental Quality for President Obama, shares with us why he is so passionate about climate change, what inspired him to get into politics, his history of activism inspiring more Latinos to foray into money management and more.

Distressed Credit and Special Situations Opportunities

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Cindy Chen Delano, Partner at Invictus Global Management, an Austin-based alternative asset management firm that specializes in investing across distressed credit and related special situations opportunities. She shares her non-traditional background going into money management, her outlook on alternative investments with respect to distressed credit and special situations, her experience being a women money manager, what she is doing to encourage more women to go into investing, and how the firm is embracing D&I.

Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund and Opportunistic Credit Investing

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Tracy McHale Stuart, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based $8 billion alternative investment manager that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing.  She shares her views on alternative investments, how the firm has incorporated ESG into its principles, her experience being a woman in alternative investments, what the firm is doing to champion D&I and more.  

Investing in Diverse and Emerging Managers

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Kelly Chesney, Co-Founder of Pluscios Management, a Women Business Enterprise and alternatives investment specialist in Evanston, Illinois that invests in a portfolio of diverse and emerging managers. She shares her views on alternative investments, how she got into money management, how her firm has been a pioneer in investing in diverse and emerging managers, her experience being a women in investing, what her firm is doing to champion more women at a young age to foray into money management and more.

Private Equity Investing in Media and Entertainment

In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Vania Schlogel, Managing Partner and Founder of Atwater Capital, a Los Angeles-based international private equity firm that invests in the media and entertainment space, about her views on private equity, the specific opportunities she sees, why she opened an office in South Korea, her experience being a woman in the industry and more.

Alternative Investments Spotlight: Latino Money Manager Empowers Young Hispanics to Foray Into Money Management

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Lorenzo Esparza, Founding Principal of Manhattan West Asset Management, a Los Angeles-based alternative investments and wealth management firm, about his views on alternative investments, how he got into money management, what is he doing to champion more young Hispanics to go into investing careers and what he is doing at his firm on a whole to embrace diversity.

Raising Capital When Everyone Is Scared: A Conversation with Garry Jensen

As we continue to explore the capital raising environment for funds in a virtual context against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, we turn to Garry Jensen, Managing Partner of Jensen Capital Partners, to get his insights. With an international track record of success in investment banking and capital markets, Garry is uniquely positioned to comment on the current environment for managers seeking to connect with allocators.

Capital Raising During COVID-19

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper speaks with Greg Royce, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Maximus Long Short Equity Management, a low-net exposure industrials and materials focused hedge fund. Royce discusses how his firm experienced robust growth in assets under management amid a challenging year of capital raising for the hedge fund industry and how his firm was successful garnering investor allocations in a virtual world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.