Founders
Brant K. Maller, CEO
Alternative Investments Forum
230 Park Avenue, Suite 1000
New York, NY 10169
T 212 858 1437
F 917 464 9937
bmaller@aiforumllc.com

Bruce F. Pulver, CFA, President
Alternative Investments Forum
230 Park Avenue, Suite 1000
New York, NY 10169
T 917 238 7959
F 917 464 9937
bpulver@aiforumllc.com

Advisory Board Chair
Josh Lerner
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Harvard Business School
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 214
Boston, Massachusetts 02163
T 617 495 6065
F 617 495 3817
josh@hbs.edu
www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/

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About Alternative Investments Forum (AIF)

AIF is a thought leadership forum or "portable think tank." It promotes the sound use of alternative investment tools and strategies by institutional investors to achieve their objectives. It strives to do so by bringing the world's leading investment minds to the owners of its largest pools of capital for a free exchange of investment ideas. AIF aims to be an objective investor resource and to help investors best invest to meet their objectives.

Ideas and communication – AIF:


Roundtable Discussion Forums

AIF holds educational roundtable discussion forums focusing on those topics of greatest interest to the investors at the time they are held. Those forums will have an investor-only session devoted to portfolio level issues, separate roundtable discussions devoted exclusively to private equity, hedge funds and real estate investing, and a separate session devoted to trustee/board level issues. Participation is by invitation only.


Membership

Membership Standards - AIF membership is limited to the most respected investment managers in their respective asset classes.  

Limited Size - AIF’s forums must be large enough to elicit a range of perspectives yet small enough to allow for a productive roundtable discussion among all participants.

Cross-section of Members - AIF aims to have a cross-section of members by asset class, size and investment style.  Its goal is to create a forum in which new and fresh investment ideas can be exchanged freely and comfortably in a neutral forum.


Advisory Board

AIF's Advisory Board is chaired by Harvard Business School Professor of Investment Banking Josh Lerner. Its other academic members include MIT Professor of Investments Randolph Cohen, University of California at Berkeley Haas Business School Professor Ken Rosen, and former Harvard Business School Professor of Finance Mark Mitchell. Other Advisory Board members include leading investment consulting firms and present and former senior investment officers and trustees and investment board members of the largest investors.

The primary roles of the Advisory Board are (i) to develop and maintain a dynamic investor-oriented curriculum and an online library of recommended research and readings and (ii) to engage their peers in the most productive discussion of best practices and ideas.


Strategic Partnership With Pensions & Investments (P&I)

AIF and P&I (the leading newspaper of money management) have entered into a strategic partnership called the Institutional Investments Forum to build a global investments think tank. P&I Article