By Ed Rowley, November 2023, last updated January 24, 2024
(Note: the 2025 guide is now published and can be found here.)
Beginning in late January 2024, thousands of professionals from investment managers, allocators and service providers will head to Miami and nearby locations for a packed schedule of conferences and dealmaking.
The collection of events, held each year in late January and early February, is commonly known as "Miami Hedge Fund Week". However, the name is increasingly outdated.
The conferences cover not just “hedge funds”, but also private equity, private debt, venture capital and digital assets. It’s also not a “week”, but more like two weeks. And it’s no longer just “Miami”, since events also take place around South Florida and in nearby tropical locations.
As I looked at the upcoming events, I saw some notable changes for 2024:
For 2024, there are 12 conferences that I believe alternatives allocators, managers and service providers would want to know about.
For some of these events, it's debatable whether they should be included, either because of their location or topic. However, I’ve erred on the side of including more rather than fewer events, so readers can get a fuller picture of everything that's happening.
Description: This longstanding conference brings together allocators and alternative investment managers for prescheduled one-on-one meetings, as well as panels, networking and socializing. The event was originally held in Miami under the Context brand and was a mainstay Hedge Fund Week event. For the first time it is being held in the Bahamas.
Description: Data buyers (such as hedge funds) meet with 100+ alternative data providers. At last year’s event, more than 1,600 one-on-one meetings were held. There are also speakers and panels featuring hedge funds, PE/VC firms and data providers.
Description: 150+ attendees from family offices, institutional investors, fund managers and founders gather for a series of sessions on investment opportunities, with a focus on alternative investment funds and VC and direct deals. Gatherings for this conference take place in a variety of locations and feature pickleball.
Description: After a three-year hiatus, CAIS returns as a conference for single family offices, investors, alternative investment fund managers, academics and economists. Attendees network, share ideas and learn about global issues impacting control of the world’s wealth.
Description: The trade association for futures exchanges and their industry counterparts holds this annual conference. Commodities market participants gather to hear speakers and panels on commodity industry sectors, regulations and other commodity markets issues.
Description: Buy-side equity traders gather along with the sell-side and technology providers. The conference features numerous keynotes, panels and roundtables that explore equity trading topics including technology, regulation, market structure and data.
Description: This is the MFA’s flagship business development and networking event for the alternative investment industry. It gathers 850+ allocators, hedge fund managers, and service providers for one-on-one meetings, educational programming and peer-to-peer, investor-led discussions.
Description: Private credit LPs and GPs gather at this event to discuss the asset class, network, and participate in a series of “meet the allocator” roundtables and workshops. The event is held in partnership with iConnections, and ends as Global Alts begins (see below).
Description: Global Alts has emerged as the largest of the hedge fund week events. In 2023 this cap intro event attracted 3,500 attendees and hosted 14,000 one-on-one meetings between allocators and alternatives managers. It also features 150 speakers exploring topics related to hedge funds, private equity and investing.
Description: The invite-only Breakers cap intro conference has been held since 1999. It brings together Morgan Stanley's hedge fund clients to meet, network and share ideas with institutional investors.
Description: 1,000 attendees from venture capital funds, investors, companies and others from Florida and beyond gather for capital raising, networking and content. As part of the event, 60 companies pitch to investors for venture funding.
Description: The private placement industry gathers for networking, dealmaking, panels and one-on-one meetings. The PPIF conference attracts 800+ issuers, investors, agents and advisors. Content explored includes the market outlook, infrastructure, commercial real estate and private credit. Banks host private spaces for dealmaking.
Many associations, managers and service providers will be holding receptions and networking events during this period. Some that have publicly announced their events include:
Note that the Greenwich Economic Forum had preliminary scheduled its GEF-Miami conference on January 29, but has since moved it to March 14.
I’ll continue to update this list as I come across new information. To get on the list for updated articles, or to let me know if I’m missing anything significant, please contact me.
For a comparison of this year's events vs. last year, see my prior article.
Finally, an important note that conference and event information can and does change. Always go to the event organizers' websites for the latest information and check with them to confirm dates, locations and other information before making any plans.
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