UNSW Alternative Investment Society

Wrapping up an insightful evening at the Kapstream Capital Panel Event! 🚀📈 Last Thursday, UNSW AIS held a fantastic panel event on learning about the behind-the-scenes work of fund managers and all the highs and lows of risk management. The attendees discovered new insights in our discussions on G10 FX, interest rates, credit derivatives and the global macroeconomic landscape. Thank you to everyone who participated in the engaging Q&A and post-panel networking. Huge thanks to our incredible panelist Robert Roszkowski, a portfolio manager with expertise in trading the global market. Your experience of perseverance and dedication truly inspired our attendees to chase after our goals

Following our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday (02-Oct-24), UNSW AlS is excited to announce its upcoming executive team for 2025: Co-President(Male): Anthony Yang Co-President(Female): Catherine Zhu Vice President of Internals: Rico Se Vice President of Operations: Charlotte Quek Vice President of Externals: Charlotte Voon Vice President of Activities: Shreya Krishna We look forward to see each of these talented individuals bringing a wealth of passion, experience, and dedication to take our society to new heights! 🚀🚀 Best regards from the 2024 Executive Team (Daniel Miu, Mridula Tirumala, Jordan Lam, Nathan Nguyen, Prathi Navaneeth, Sahithyan Baskaran)

What an incredible day at Roc Partners' Discovery Day! We had an amazing 4-hour deep dive into the world of private investment, gaining invaluable insights from the experts at Roc Partners. Attendees explored the diverse investment landscape such as private credit, ESG, private equity, legal and compliances, multi-strategy and more! We also gained firsthand insights on how Roc Partners drives growth and innovation across their portfolio companies. The information sessions and networking lunch were unmatched, offering students and enthusiasts a chance to engage with industry leaders and build meaningful connections. A massive thank you to Roc Partners for hosting such an insightful event! We’re leaving inspired and ready to take on new challenges in the world of alternative investments.

The Finance and Consulting Mentoring program kicked off with our in-person launch event this week. We had a great chance to get to know our wonderful mentors and an opportunity to learn about the vast range of career paths and positions. Thank you to our sponsors Roc Partners, Aware Super, BlackRock, PwC Australia and Capgemini for collaborating with us on this wonderful opportunity. Thank you to Global Consulting Group for collaborating with us on this program. We’re excited for the rest of this 8-week program with our amazing mentors!

Last week, UNSW Alternative Investment Society and UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSESoc) hosted the UNSW AIS x CSESOC x AP+ Fintech Innovation Competition at Australian Payments Plus’ head office. Each team demonstrated exceptional effort and teamwork, with innovative solutions between biometrics, RFID tags, UWB technology and Escrows. Huge congratulations to the finalists for your fantastic presentations and diligent research. A huge thank you to our esteemed judges from Australian Payments Plus for all your time and expertise. All the finalists were able to gain a deeper insight into the payment industry and new emerging technologies from your expertise. Congratulations to all those that participated throughout the competition for all of your hard work! 1st Place: Team Bes’t Pay   2nd Place (tied): Team WAQ and Team Innovation  3rd Place: Team TradeLink

Thank you Michael Gallagher for an insightful night on introduction to alternative investments! It was a great learning experience on understanding how alternative investments differ from other traditional assets, ranges of strategies in investing AI, and information in breaking into Funds and Investment Management. We look forward to any potential collaborations with AIMA again! 🚀🚀

Thanks to everyone that attended the secret AIS X Moomoo (Futu) trading event yesterday. It was a great kickstart to our month long paper trading competition on US stocks. Big thanks to the moomoo Australia team and the CEO YUN FAI WONG (Toby) for his insightful presentation. Your wisdom had a great impact on the participants.

We are excited to extend a warm welcome to Kapstream Capital as our newest sponsor! Kapstream Capital is the leading choice for institutional and individual investors seeking an alternative approach to fixed income, combining capital preservation techniques with unconstrained portfolio management skills in the pursuit of stable, absolute returns. Founded 18 years ago, Kapstream Capital have now won the Australian Credit Fund Manager by KangaNews Awards 6 years in a row. We are thrilled about the opportunities this partnership will bring and look forward to achieving great success together.

We are thrilled to extend a warm welcome to Roc Partners as our newest sponsor! Roc Partners is a specialist private markets investment firm, delivering successful outcomes through sustainable and positive growth. Roc Partners have managed and advised clients on private markets investments across private equity, real assets and private credit for over 25 years. It is now one of the largest and most experienced private markets investment teams in the Asia-Pacific region. We are excited about the opportunities this partnership will bring and look forward to achieving great success together.

We are excited to announce our incoming UNSW Alternative Investment Society's subcommittee team for 2024! We would like to give a huge congratulation and a warm official welcome to our internal members of AIS: Executives: Co-President: Daniel Miu, Mridula Tirumala VPI: Jordan Lam VPE: Prathi Navaneeth VPA: Sahithyan Baskaran VPO: Nathan Nguyen EDI Officer: Armaan Kaushal Marketing Directors: Anthony Yang, Charlotte Quek, Edwin Chan Subcommittees: Joshua Jung, Josh Cohen, Hersh Ketkar, Heewon (Lina) Chun, Hazel Cherry Lin HR Directors: Juno Yim, Ashley Zhu Subcommittees: Aaron Rana, Angus Chao, Jeremy Poe, Rico Se, Yoonha Choi Careers Directors: Nathan Duong, Yunze Zheng, Charlotte Voon Subcommittees: Andrew Suryanto, Arshia Bhardwaj, Hriday Patel, Mervyn Wang, Shakira Lin, Louise An Competitions Directors: Matthew Kuk, Catherine Zhu Subcommitees: Alfred Liu, Allison Chan, Andrew Sun, Daniel Oh, Jason Le, Monash Sapkota Educations Directors: Janice Cheong, Shreya Krishna Subcommitees: Akshay Madane, Andrew Jeevachandran, Erik Cen, Khushali Shah, Saloni Pandya Socials Directors: Arian Ali, Manasa Soundararasa, Peng (Dean) Luo Subcommittees: Dulini Galhena, Nichole Lou, Sarthak Vashist, Tingyu Gong IT Directors: Christopher Thomas, Riti Mucherla Subcommittees: Andrew Lin, Hans Zheng, Hiresh De Silva, Prisha Rao, Tej Mehta, Deen Asfour We would also like to thank all the candidates that have taken their time to apply, it was an extremely competitive recruitment process and we look forward to seeing you all at our future events!