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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.

From Products to Portfolio: Jon Diorio on BlackRock’s Private Markets Focus

Latest Episode | April 14, 2026

Jon Diorio, Head of Alternatives for US Wealth at Blackrock, joins CAIS Co-President Brad Walker on CAIS Live Conversations: Building With Alts to discuss how he sees alternative investments reshaping wealth management for financial advisors. Jon shares how BlackRock is building its private markets platform across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure. He gets into why he thinks model portfolios may help advisors. They also explore the macro landscape, liquidity, and Jon’s views on why education remains key.

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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, Brad Walker, Neil Blundell, and Matt Brown 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.

Alex Cavalieri

Company: CAIS | Position: Chief Marketing Officer

Alex Cavalieri

Brad Walker

Company: CAIS | Position: Partner, Co-President

Brad Walker

Neil Blundell

Company: CAIS Advisors | Position: Chief Investment Officer

Matt Brown

Company: CAIS | Position: Founder, Chairman, & Chief Executive Officer

Matt Brown