<br />
Alternative<br />
Investment<br />
Analyst<br />
Review™<br />
What a CAIA Member Should Know<br />
“Setting the Benchmark: Spotlight on Private Equity”<br />
Gitanjali M. Swamy, Irina Zeltser, Hossein Kazemi, and Edward Szado<br />
Research Review<br />
“An Introduction to Risk Parity”<br />
Hossein Kazemi<br />
Member Contributions<br />
“20 years of VIX: Implications for Alternative Investments”<br />
Mikhail Munenzon, CAIA<br />
Investment Strategies<br />
“The Risk Reducing and Income Enhancing Buy-Write Strategy”<br />
Phil Gocke<br />
Q1 2012, Volume 1, Issue 1 Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association<br />
WELCOME<br />
Dear Reader,<br />
We are pleased to introduce the inaugural issue of the Alternative<br />
Investment Analyst Review. This new publication advances our<br />
mission to provide the CAIA community and its <a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=1"> Alternative Investment Analyst Review™ What a CAI</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=2"> WELCOME Dear Reader, We are pleased to introduce </a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=3"> EDITORS Hossein Kazemi Program Director, CAIA Ass</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=4"> WHAT A CAIA MEMBER SHOULD KNOW Setting the Benchm</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=5"> A short, original, practitioner focused paper </a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=6"> RESEARCH REVIEW All About Parity Hossein Kazemi </a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=7"> Overview of a topic of interest along with a summ</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=8"> MEMBER CONTRIBUTION 20 years of VIX: Implications</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=9"> Research pieces written by CAIA members </a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=10"> INVESTMENT STRATEGIES The Buy-Write Strategy for </a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=11"> Original summary of a research paper on a specif</a>
<a title="CAIA AIAR Q1 2012 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9d26a56f?page=12"> D ownload the Full Alternative Investment Analyst</a>