Alex Cavalieri
Company: CAIS | Position: Chief Marketing Officer
CAIS Live Conversations
Building With Alts
Welcome to CAIS Live Conversations: Building With Alternatives, the podcast that dives into individual journeys and big ideas shaping wealth management with alternatives. Listen to RIA leaders and asset management executives share unique stories about how they are working to increase access to alternative investments—powered by leading-edge technology.
Why Sports Are Becoming an Asset Class in Their Own Right
Latest Episode | September 28, 2026
Sports franchises increasingly sit at the intersection of media, intellectual property, live entertainment, and real estate. Recorded live on stage at CAIS Live | West, Neil Blundell, Chief Investment Officer of CAIS Advisors, joins host Alex Cavalieri to discuss the factors shaping sports, media, and entertainment investing. Neil explores how long-term media rights, streaming, real estate development, sponsorships, and global audiences are changing franchise economics. He also explores the role IP can play across the broader attention economy, from music catalogs to entertainment companies.
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CAIS Live Conversations: Building With Alts addresses ways independent financial advisors may be able to harness the power of alternative investments and potentially boost client portfolios.
Breaking Barriers to Alts
In Their Words
Join CAIS for candid conversations with founders, RIAs and IBD leaders who’ve taken the plunge into the alts universe. Pull up a chair and dive into stories about wealth management, and insights from asset managers that may inspire your own journey to build your practice.
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Meet the Hosts
Join CAIS Live Conversations: Building with Alts hosts Alex Cavalieri and Brad Walker as they bring on leaders of RIA and IBD firms, and asset management executives to shed light on alternative investments, discuss ways of accessing hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure funds, address new technologies and share experiences.
Brad Walker
Company: CAIS | Position: Partner, Co-President
