Behind the Scenes of Global Alts Miami 2026 | Part 2
Welcome to iConnections—where the alternative investment industry comes to connect, learn, and grow. iConnections’ Global Alts is the world’s largest cap intro event, hosted at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This premier gathering features insights from top minds in investment, finance, and economics, while giving attendees exclusive access to the global alternative investment community. But […]
How Companies Erase Mass Tort Liabilities | Legacy Liability Solutions CEO | CNBC’s Melissa Lee
What if you could make billions of dollars of corporate liabilities disappear — legally? CNBC’s Melissa Lee interviews James Conlan, CEO of Legacy Liability Solutions, about the little-known business of acquiring mass tort liabilities from companies. Asbestos, PFAS, talc, Roundup — if a company wants it off their books forever, Jim’s team will take it. […]
Inside America’s Public Pensions: Governance, AI & Alternatives | Global Alts Miami 2026
Three state investment leaders managing over $250 billion combined share what’s working, what’s broken, and how they’re adapting to a new investment landscape. From Wyoming’s dramatic pension turnaround to Connecticut’s 70-year funding hole to Wisconsin’s AI experimentation—this is the unfiltered view from inside public plan governance. Featuring: TIMESTAMPS:0:00 – Introductions0:32 – Wisconsin SWIB: $150B, $80B […]
Future of Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds | BlackRock, Hudson Bay, Boothbay & Aksia | Global Alts Miami
Multi-strategy hedge funds have outperformed the hedge fund index for five consecutive years. With hedge fund AUM hitting $5 trillion, multi-strats command an outsized share. But what’s next? Four industry leaders discuss talent wars, AI disruption, and whether synthetic intelligence will replace human portfolio managers. Featuring: TIMESTAMPS:0:00 – Multi-strats: Outperforming for 5 years straight1:16 – […]
Survive to 25 Is Over. Now It’s Grinding to 29 | Private Credit Experts Explain | Global Alts Miami
The Opportunities In Opportunistic Credit | Global Alts Miami 2026 Where is the real alpha in private credit? Four specialists break down the dislocations they’re finding—from a trillion dollars in maturing CRE loans to asset-based lending in venture to patent monetization wrapped with insurance. Featuring: TIMESTAMPS:0:00 – Why Carnegie focuses on opportunistic over direct lending1:10 […]
2026 Is the Year of Alpha— Why Japan Outperformed the US | Tokyo Stock Exchange | Global Alts Miami
Japan outperformed the US in 2025. Now the country’s top allocators are revealing where they’re deploying capital next. A Japanese pension CIO running a 92% alternatives portfolio shares his minimum hurdle rates (13% liquid, 18% IRR illiquid), his contrarian bets on distressed China real estate and US credit defaults, and why he’s adding crypto as […]
Bitcoin’s Pullback Explained: Why Institutions Are Buying the Dip | Dr Adam Back | Global Alts Miami
The man Satoshi Nakamoto emailed first — before anyone else knew Bitcoin existed. Dr. Adam Back, creator of Hashcash (cited in the Bitcoin white paper) and CEO of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, sits down with Bloomberg’s Alexandra Semenova to discuss Bitcoin’s volatility, institutional adoption, and why the current pullback might be the best entry point […]
The State of Private Credit: GPs & LPs Separate Headlines from Reality | Global Alts Miami 2026
The real state of private credit — from $200B+ pension funds and the GPs managing their capital. Ashley Baum (Texas Teachers) throws cold water on the industry’s hottest asset class: “Private credit is not an asset class. We were loaning beads to each other before there was currency.” Meanwhile, Timothy Lower (Willow Tree) separates headlines […]
Private Credit Is Acting Like Growth Equity. That’s a Problem | Global Alts Miami 2026
The “golden age of private credit” just hit a wall. Jamie Dimon’s cockroach comments, the Blue Owl freeze, and software loan stress are spreading — and this panel of industry veterans doesn’t sugarcoat it. Katie Koch (TCW) reveals why they have zero exposure to software loans and compares current behavior to 2008’s “housing isn’t cyclical” […]
Why Activist Investors Are Hunting Private Credit Funds | Global Alts Miami 2026
Two of the world’s most influential activist investors reveal their strategies and why private credit may be on the verge of a major reckoning. Boaz Weinstein (Saba Capital) explains closed-end fund activism and why he’s now targeting private credit products like Blue Owl’s BDCs. He warns: “We are in the super early innings of the […]
