Association News

CARAIA at the JSE's Regional Conference 2023
January 28, 2023

Grey's Quote

CARAIA participated in the Jamaica Stock Exchange's 18th Regional Investments & Capital Markets Conference as a sponsor. The Conference which was held on January 24, 2023 to January 26, 2023, at the Jamaica Pegasus and online, involved government leaders, business leaders, media, and leading professionals from across the Caribbean, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Our  Chairman, Beris Grey…

Business Social - Jamaica Observer
January 18, 2023

Innovative and alternative finance took centre stage last Thursday evening at the ATL Audi Showroom on Oxford Road in New Kingston as the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) invited Jamaica's business class to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship and new models of investment. A collaborative effort of the DBJ's Boosting Innovation, Growth and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (BIGEE) programme and the Caribbean Alternative Investments Association (CARAIA), the corporate mingle, dubbed Cocktails and Conversations, featured an update from CARAIA Chairman Berisford Grey on the growth of alternative finance in the region. Additionally, CARAIA…

DBJ Private Capital Funds Training for Investors on September 20-21, from 8am to 12:30pm
September 12, 2022

In collaboration with the Caribbean Alternative Investment Association (CARAIA), the DBJ, through its World Bank-funded, Access to Finance Project, will host a two-day training session targeted at private capital investors.

The aim of the training is to sensitize local investors and LPs on issues relating to fund performance assessments and metrics, monitoring and reporting requirements, the roles and responsibilities of the key management personnel and also zone in on some of the crucial due diligence and risk management issues to take into consideration, when managing a private capital portfolio.

The course will be…