Chris Holt is the Managing Editor of AllAboutAlpha.com, a popular industry website/blog covering research and trends in alternative investments. In 2008, Pensions & Investments magazine ranked AllAboutAlpha.com as one of the world’s 10 best financial blogs, alongside the blogs of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He has written over 1,000 articles on the hedge fund sector, with an emphasis on industry trends, academic research, surveys, and practitioner research. In his role with AllAboutAlpha.com, Chris is also a regular chair and moderator at hedge fund industry events around the world, including the semi-annual “Global Absolute Return Congress,” the world’s leading alternative investment conference for ...More pensions and foundations.

Chris is also head of industry relations in the Americas for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association. The CAIA Association is a non-profit global association of alternative investment professionals and is the sponsor of the CAIA designation. Based in Amherst, MA, the CAIA Association has offices in London, Singapore and Toronto and has a dozen chapters in the world’s largest financial centers.

Prior to this, Chris was head of marketing for one of Canada’s largest hedge fund companies, and was a management consultant with several firms including Ernst & Young. Separately, he also consulted to the Annual Meeting of the Swiss-based World Economic Forum for 10 years. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Investments, has an MBA from Duke University and is a CAIA Charter holder.

Visit his site: All About Alpha (http://www.allaboutalpha.com/blog/)